"Camera angles are too acute, making everything seem sinister; much of the blocking feels overtly staged and aritifical. It's a beautifully lit and appointed world in the film, but the deeper we go, the more we feel that we can't trust it or even know for sure what's going on. And having that lack of certainty, following along with Sylvia as her grip on reality ebbs and flows, makes The Perfume of the Lady in Black one of the most tense, and delectably unfathomable Italian horror films ever made. It's as pure as any cinematic depiction of descent into insanity that I've seen, and it surely ranks with the most successful." - Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy