Tom Jolliffe on the joy of a loving 4K restoration… In cinema, there’s a progressive fascination with new fangled technology. With every passing year, new tech and new kit is released leaving those with a technological fascination slobbering in anticipation. If you’re a filmmaker with any passing eye upon breaking Netflix you know that the […]
Arrow Video releasing new 4K restorations of Demons and Demons 2
Arrow Video has announced the upcoming February 22nd release of Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s classic 80s horror films Demons and Demons 2 in a limited edition box set featuring brand new 4K restorations of both movies from the original camera negatives, as well as a host of special features. In the early 1980s, Dario […]
The Gruesome Brilliance of 1980s Italian Horror
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 […]
Daft Punk tapped to score new Dario Argento giallo Black Glasses
Italian filmmaker Dario Argento is working on his first film since 2012’s Dracula 3D, and this is his return to the crime thriller genre he helped shape. The new Giallo film titled Occhiali Neri or Black Glasses will star his daughter and frequent collaborator Asia Argento and feature French music duo Daft Punk as its […]
Garish Colour, Prog Rock, Masked Killers and a Glass Fetish: Dario Argento’s Glory Years
Tom Jolliffe on the years, and films, which defined 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 around the world in a way even Bava could only dream […]
Master of Horror: Five Essential Dario Argento Films
Dominic O’Brien selects his Five Essential Films of Dario Argento… Although he has fallen from grace somewhat recently, during the 70s and 80s Dario Argento was the master of suspense and mystery. During this time he managed to craft some of the finest pieces of Italian giallo and genre films. Still, to this day his […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 9 – The Bird with The Crystal Plumage (1970)
The Bird with The Crystal Plumage, 1970. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho, and Renato Romano. SYNOPSIS: An American writer living in Rome finds himself in a cat mouse game with a brutal serial killer whose latest attack he is the sole witness to. After […]
Dario Argento’s Dreadful Bond gets playable demo
Developer Clod Studio has released an early playable tech demo for their first-person psychological horror title, Dario Argento’s Dreadful Bond, to spark further interest towards their Kickstarter campaign. The tech demo – downloadable here – showcases the game’s black-and-white visual, detailed game objects, and thick giallo atmosphere. Dario Argento’s Dreadful Bond is described as a […]
Dario Argento wasn’t a fan of the Suspiria remake
While last year’s Suspiria was certainly better received than the vast majority of horror remakes, one person who wasn’t too impressed by Luca Guadagnino’s reimaging of the 1977 film is Dario Argento, director of the original classic, who has said that the new movie “betrayed his vision”. “It did not excite me, it betrayed the […]
Filmmaking With No Money and Big Ideas
Tom Jolliffe offers an insight into no budget film-making, and why you should aim as high as those means can reach… I won’t claim to be Steven Spielberg (or even Steven Spielbergo) but aspiring film-makers can learn a lot from not just the industry masters of past and present, but from each other. I’ve spoken […]