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 […]
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, […]
Blu-ray Review – The Cat O’Nine Tails (1971)
The Cat O’Nine Tails, 1971. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Horst Frank, Pier Paolo Capponi, and Cinzia De Carolis. SYNOPSIS: A blind man and an investigative reporter team up to get to the bottom of a murder mystery connected to a pharmaceutical company. Continuing their trawl through their catalogue […]
