Taglines: a dark secret, a twisted mind, an insane desire for revenge.
Trauma movie storyline. An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.
Trauma is a 1993 American horror thriller film directed by Dario Argento and starring Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest, Laura Johnson, Dominique Serrand, Sharon Barr, James Russo and Isabell O’Connor.
About the Story
Aura (Asia Argento), a young woman suffering from anorexia escapes from a psychiatric hospital and meets a young man, David (Christopher Rydell), who offers to let her stay with him rather than go back to the hospital. However, Aura is soon caught, but her return to the hospital coincides with the start of a string of murders of hospital staff members, past and present. The killer decapitates them using a home-made garrote device on rainy days. When her father is murdered along with her mother, Aura and David team up to find the killer.
In the end, it is revealed that Aura’s mother (who faked her death after murdering her husband) is the killer. Years earlier, Dr. Lloyd (Brad Dourif) was given the task of delivering Aura’s brother, Nicolas. However, his clumsiness combined with a power outage (caused by a thunderstorm) led to him slicing off the newborn infant’s head as he was being delivered.
The head nurse during the delivery convinces the doctor to forcibly subject Aura’s mother to electroshock treatment against her will, hoping that it would erase all memory of the blotched delivery / death of her son, allowing for the staff to cover up their causing her child’s death. Holding the two hostage, Aura’s mother is ultimately killed by a young child who had discovered the mother’s crimes and ultimately uses her own murder device against her to save her captives.
Trauma (1993)
Directed by: Dario Argento
Starring: Christopher Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest, Laura Johnson, Dominique Serrand, Sharon Barr, James Russo, Isabell O’Connor
Screenplay by: Dario Argento, Eibon Klein, Ruth Jessup
Production Design by: Billy Jett
Cinematography by: Raffaele Mertes
Film Editing by: Bennett Goldberg, Dario Argento
Costume Design by: Leesa Evans
Set Decoration by: Jacqueline Jacobson Scarfo
Art Direction by: Nance Derby
Music by: Pino Donaggio
MPAA Rating: R for violence and terror, and for some sexuality and language.
Distributed by: Republic Pictures
Release Date: March 12, 1993
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