Dario Argento

...ghoul, and came out looking like Carrie on prom night. I saw it happen, and the moment is frozen for me like a scene from a Dario Argento movie: Christie's blond locks, suffused by a pale, flickering, blue-green backlight, her mouth...

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...wickedly clever meta-movie. While Wes Craven's "Scream" discusses the rules of horror films and then applies them to its own story, the Dario Argento produced "Demons" goes a few steps further by setting the film in an old movie theater.

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...Motion Picture Soundtrack) Like a devilishly twinkling, come-hither version of The Exorcist's "Tubular Bells" cop, the theme to Dario Argento's 1977 blood-drenched Italian horror epic (about a young American ballet student who...

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...Grudge or Session 9 knew well, finding the right setting is of paramount importance to tales of haunted places. Suspiria (1977) Dario Argento's film may ostensibly be about a dancer's discovery of a coven of witches but the plot's merely...

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...Devil" is almost all windup, and when the action finally happens, it's somewhat disappointing: It's a little too Dario Argento, without Argento's wackadoo baroque visual style, to fit the overall vibe of the movie. But this is one of those...

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...the Freiburg dance academy does gets extra points for embracing two of my three childhood obsessions: ballet and witches. If only Dario Argento had squeezed Red Indians - as we then said - into the mix, we would have had a full house. The...

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Eerie "Suspiria," made in 1977 by Dario Argento, will screen at Starz. Open today's movie listings, and you'll find as many as eight horror-fantasy flicks on screens about town. It's a glut. And talking about horror trends can be an...

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...bombardment of evil and everyday explanations setting the stage for a finale so horrific it remains a genre classic. Similarly, Dario Argento brought a Mediterranean view of macabre to his brilliant horror crime thriller Deep Red (Profondo...

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...the impressive CEMETERY MAN in the mid-'90s and was a protege of all the Italian genre masters, from Joe D'Amato to Lamberto Bava to Dario Argento. He's worked with them all and I was very curious to see what his first outing was going to...

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...the Pendulum" and "The Black Cat. " He inspired authors such as Anne Rice and Stephen King and filmmakers such as John Carpenter and Dario Argento. Even Charles Schulz referenced him numerous times in the comic strip "Peanuts. " Poe's works...

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