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, […]
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 […]
Arrow bringing Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage to 4K Ultra HD
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 […]
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 […]
Ennio Morricone: Timeless Work and Defining a Genre
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 […]
Cinema of 1970: A Significant Cinematic Shift
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 […]
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 […]
The Sound of Fear: 17 Creepy Choral Horror Soundtracks
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 […]
Blu-ray Review – 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, 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 […]