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Exclusive trailer for Arrow’s Molto Argento: The Dario Argento Collection

April 13, 2023 by Gary Collinson

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 […]

Filed Under: Exclusives, Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: Arrow Video, Dario Argento, Deep Red, Demons, Demons 2, Phenomena, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat o' Nine Tails

Through Glasses Darkly: Dario Argento’s Animal Trilogy

October 21, 2022 by admin

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, […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Louis Fletcher, Movies Tagged With: Dario Argento, Dark Glasses, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat O’Nine Tails

Garish Colour, Prog Rock, Masked Killers and a Glass Fetish: Dario Argento’s Glory Years

August 10, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Dario Argento, Deep Red, Inferno, Opera, Suspiria, Tenebrae, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Trauma

Arrow bringing Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage to 4K Ultra HD

April 13, 2021 by Amie Cranswick

Arrow Video has announced that Dario Argento’s 1970 directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is set for a limited edition 4K Ultra HD release this June; check out the cover artwork, contents and special features below… In 1970, young first-time director Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria) made his indelible mark on Italian cinema […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Physical Media Tagged With: Arrow Video, Dario Argento, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Master of Horror: Five Essential Dario Argento Films

August 23, 2020 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Dominic O'Brien, Movies Tagged With: Dario Argento, Deep Red, Inferno, Opera, Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Ennio Morricone: Timeless Work and Defining a Genre

July 6, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on the timeless work of the late, great Ennio Morricone… Alongside the visual imagery in a film, the accompanying music has an ability to work in perfect unison to boost the emotional impact of a sequence. Sometimes a score can enhance a scene, or the music overall can take a picture up a […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Days Of Heaven, Ennio Morricone, Frantic, Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time in the West, red sonja, Sahara, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat O’Nine Tails, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, The Hateful Eight, The Thing, The Untouchables

Cinema of 1970: A Significant Cinematic Shift

February 14, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe delves back into the cinema of 1970… It’s hard to believe it but 1970 was fifty years ago. Half a century! What defined that year was a significant shift in cinematic tastes. As the swinging 60’s passed, and the 70’s began, the year itself in cinema perfectly encapsulates the change in audience tastes […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Chisum, Patton, Performance, Rio Lobo, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Conformist, The Red Circle, Torra Torra Torra

October Horrors 2019 Day 9 – The Bird with The Crystal Plumage (1970)

October 9, 2019 by Graeme Robertson

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 […]

Filed Under: Graeme Robertson, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Dario Argento, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Renato Romano, Suzy Kendall, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Tony Musante, Umberto Raho

The Sound of Fear: 17 Creepy Choral Horror Soundtracks

September 9, 2017 by Sean Wilson

Benjamin Wallfisch’s brilliantly sinister It score turns the human voice inside out – and it’s not the only one… The world’s most terrifying clown Pennywise is back to stalk our nightmares in the new adaptation of IT, on release now. Bill Skarsgard takes over from Tim Curry as the dreaded Stephen King creation and director […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Sean Wilson Tagged With: A Cure for Wellness, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Candyman, Drag Me to Hell, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Get Out, Hannibal, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, House on Haunted Hill, It, Poltergeist, Rosemary's Baby, Scream, Stephen King, Suspiria, The Amityville Horror, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Innocents, the omen

Blu-ray Review – The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)

June 19, 2017 by Amie Cranswick

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, 1970. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Gildo Di Marco, Umberto Raho, Giuseppe Castellano, and Reggie Nalder. SYNOPSIS: A man witnesses an attempted murder and becomes the would-be killer’s next victim. Having recently delved into Dario Argento’s back catalogue with the […]

Filed Under: Chris Ward, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Dario Argento, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Gildo Di Marco, Giuseppe Castellano, Reggie Nalder, Suzy Kendall, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Tony Musante, Umberto Raho

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