After helping to pioneer Italy’s budding giallo genre throughout the 1970s with influential titles like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat o’ Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, and Deep Red, Dario Argento took a brief sabbatical from the lurid thrillers to explore supernatural elements in Suspiria and Inferno. When the latter […]
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Italian master of horror Dario Argento gets the documentary spotlight with Dario Argento Panic, a brand new doc that’s set to world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Directed by Simone Scafidi, Dario Argento Panico zooms in on Argento as he finishes writing the script for his last feature in a hotel as a film […]
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Phenomena is a substantially different movie depending on how you first saw it. Audiences in its native Italy were able to see the original 116-minute film as director Dario Argento intended for its initial release in 1985. That cut was pruned down to 110 minutes for international release. In America, however, New Line Cinema cut […]
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Do you like scary movies? It turns out that the cast of Scream VI does. Protagonist Tara Carpenter gets introduced in Scream (2022) as a devoted fan of The Babadook just before a gruesome encounter with Ghostface, and it becomes a running gag throughout the film. Like her character, actress Jenna Ortega (“Wednesday”) also happens to be a horror fan, perhaps […]
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Heritage Italian sport brand Diadora and iconic NYC sneaker retailer Extra Butter take an avant-garde approach to footwear with the collaborative sneaker drop S8000 “Giallo 2.0,” which pays tribute to the Italian horror subgenre known as the “Giallo” film – notable classics include Blood and Black Lace, Deep Red, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, […]
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45 years after its release, Dario Argento‘s Suspiria remains one of the most breathtaking horror films ever committed to celluloid. Its unparalleled visuals – vibrantly colored lighting, unconventional camerawork, opulent production design, extravagant death scenes – are complemented by a memorable score from frequent Argento collaborators, Goblin. Goblin founding keyboardist Claudio Simonetti now performs with […]
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Can you believe we’re already less than three weeks until Halloween? What does that mean for horror fans? Well, it means A WHOLE LOT of brand new releases are headed our way! In fact, another 14 BRAND NEW HORROR MOVIES are releasing this week alone, including the return of a horror master and the final […]
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Shudder’s comprehensive “Home for Halloween” line-up this October features the premiere of Dario Argento’s giallo return, ‘Dark Glasses,’ and much more. Every Halloween, horror fans are presented with a murderer’s row of options when it comes to the perfect place to binge on bloody buffets of seasonal content. Horror programming is unavoidable during this time […]
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Eat my c**t. After looking at two very different types of queer-coded bromances in Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse and Ron Underwood’s Tremors, we took a trip to Poland to analyze the trans allegory in the mermaid horror musical The Lure before heading back into the twisted mind of Clive Barker to discuss his infamous directorial debut, […]
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Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products released each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more. Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week! Halloween III Mini Masks from Fright-Rags Have a happy, happy Halloween with Fright-Rags’ Halloween III: Season of the Witch mini masks […]
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Hoot Hoot, Bitch. After discussing the positive queer representation in John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! and the queer safe space of Midian at the center of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, we’re heading over to Italy to wax poetic over Michele Soavi‘s 1987 giallo-cum-slasher Stage Fright! In the film, a narcissistic director (David Brandon) locks a group of stage […]
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Dario Argento’s latest film Dark Glasses finds the Master of Horror back on (somewhat) solid ground. While Dark Glasses has several classic Giallo elements, in reality, the Italian director has unexpectedly delivered a throwback to the “disabled woman in peril” subgenre that was popular back in the 80s and 90s. Dark Glasses begins in traditional Argento […]
While we wait for Dario Argento‘s brand new movie Dark Glasses, the Italian horror master’s first movie in ten years, Film at Lincoln Center in New York City will be hosting Beware of Dario Argento: A 20-Film Retrospective from June 17 through June 29, loaded with brand new restorations of Argento classics plus the North American premiere of Dark Glasses! From Film […]
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While we wait for Dario Argento‘s brand new movie Dark Glasses, the Italian horror master’s first movie in ten years, Indiewire has announced this morning that Film at Lincoln Center in New York City will be hosting Beware of Dario Argento: A 20-Film Retrospective from June 17 through June 29, loaded with brand new restorations of […]
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Dario Argento‘s Tenebrae is sure to look better than ever on 4K Ultra HD, with Arrow Video and Synapse Films joining forces for a brand new release that’s been announced today. Up for pre-order now from both Synapse in the US and Arrow in the UK, the three-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray 6,000 piece Limited Edition boxed […]
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