Four Flies On Grey Velvet, 1971. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Bud Spencer, and Calisto Calisti. SYNOPSIS: A man who thinks he accidentally murdered someone he thought was stalking him attempts to unravel a mystery when he discovers there was more behind it. It has been a long time […]
The Gruesome Brilliance of 1980s Italian Horror Cinema
Tom Jolliffe goes back to the 80s to look at a crazy, gore-filled period in Italian horror cinema… There’s a great legacy in Italian horror. Most famously, the giallo films which rose to prominence through the 60’s and 70’s (led first by Mario Bava, and taken to new heights via Dario Argento) put Italian horror […]
Exclusive trailer for Arrow’s Molto Argento: The Dario Argento Collection
Streaming service Arrow is celebrating the works of legendary filmmaker Dario Argento with a collection of the Italian horror maestro’s finest works as part of the Molto Argento: The Dario Argento Collection, and we have an exclusive trailer for the season which includes classics like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat o’ Nine […]
Movie Review – Dark Glasses (2022)
Dark Glasses, 2022. Co-written and directed by Dario Argento. Starring Ilenia Pastorelli, Asia Argento, Andrea Gherpelli, and Mario Pirrello. SYNOPSIS: Diana, a young woman who lost her sight, finds a guide in a Chinese boy named Chin. Together they will track down a dangerous killer through the darkness of Italy. You’d be forgiven for assuming […]
Tenebrae (1982) – October Horrors 2022
Tenebrae, 1982. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Veronica Lario, John Steiner and Giuliano Gemma. SYNOPSIS: An American author visiting Rome, finds himself embroiled in the hunt for a serial killer who seems to be drawing inspiration from his latest novel. Happy Halloween Everyone!!! It’s October 31st (or November 1st […]
Through Glasses Darkly: Dario Argento’s Animal Trilogy
Louis Fletcher revisits Dario Argento’s Animal Trilogy… Now available on the horror streaming service Shudder, Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses is a welcome return from the man many thought to have retired. Marking the maestro’s return to the giallo, the genre he pioneered in the 1970s, such an effort inevitably invites comparison with his earlier works, […]
Movie Review – Dark Glasses (2022)
Dark Glasses, 2022. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Ilenia Pastorelli, Asia Argento, Andrea Zhang, Andrea Gherpelli, Mario Pirrello, Maria Rosaria Russo, Gennaro Iaccarino, Guglielmo Favilla, Gianluca Gugliarelli, Cristiano Simone Iannone, Viktorie Ignoto, Gladys Robles, Paola Sambo, and Tiffany Zhou. SYNOPSIS: Diana, a young woman who lost her sight, finds a guide in a Chinese boy […]
Dario Argento’s giallo return Dark Glasses gets a trailer from Shudder
Shudder has released a new trailer for horror legend Dario Argento’s latest giallo Dark Glasses which follows a Diana, a young escort who loses her sight in a car crash while being pursued by a serial killer, only to find she is still the target of the sadistic murderer; check out the trailer and official […]
Dario Argento’s new giallo Dark Glasses sets October release on Shudder
Legendary filmmaker Dario Argento returned this year for his first feature since 2012’s Dracula 3D with Dark Glasses, a giallo starring Ilenia Pastorelli as a woman who sets out to put an end to a sadistic serial killer’s reign of terror after a botched attack that leaves her without her sight. Dark Glasses premiered at […]
Garish Colour, Prog Rock, Masked Killers and a Glass Fetish: Dario Argento’s Glory Years
With his new giallo Dark Glasses coming to Shudder in October, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the defining films of Dario Argento… Looking back over his peak years, whilst Dario Argento may not have been the first pioneer of Giallo horror, he followed in the footsteps of the great Mario Bava and popularised Italian horror […]
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