Blu-ray Review – Reflections in Black

1975’s “Reflections in Black” has a black-gloved killer on the loose, favoring a straight razor to dispatch victims. Desperate from some type of twist to help distinguish the title, director Tano Cimarosa and his screenwriters also dress the lunatic in black stockings to help add another layer of intimidation and visual storytelling to the picture. And that’s it for invention in the movie, which quickly falls into the routine of law enforcement interviewing suspects while a ghoul periodically takes innocent lives. “Reflections in Black” isn’t inspired work, and it’s a pretty flimsy thriller, becoming more of a community picnic as a plethora of characters compete for screen time. Cimarosa doesn’t aim for thrills here, barely showing enough energy to build a decent mystery as the whole thing becomes bogged down in dialogue exchanges shared by uninteresting people. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com