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And so my introduction to Italian Horror Cinema finally concludes with Dario Argento’s supposedly seminal ’Suspiria’, released in ’77 and the last film ever to be processed in glorious Technicolour fact fans. It’s a companion piece to ’Inferno’ in that it deals with the last of ‘The Three Mothers’, Mater Suspiriorum, The Mother of Sighs, who we find exacting vicious [...]
Roomybonce: And so, after two elegant cruises through the crimson corridors of Italian Horror courtesy of Mario Bava, the wheels come off in a cartwheeling Richard Hammond stylee with this 1971 effort from bony-faced Giallo ‘genius’ Dario Argento. Here’s the plot: Dreamy haired progrock drummer Michael Brandon is stalked by a dirty old chap in a mac. Understandably annoyed, our hero turns the tables and follows his pervoid [...]
The Italian soundtrack maestro was 81 on the 10th of November. Even if his name doesn’t ring a bell, his films will. How about ‘The Good, The Bad And The Ugly’, ‘The Battle of Algiers’, ‘Days of Heaven’, ‘The Untouchables’, ‘Cinema Paradiso’ and ‘The Thing’ for starters? His work covers 500 film and television productions, 40 of [...]
Is no one else excited? Goblin? Live at The Scala on Monday the 27th of July? It’s too good to be true, right? Ok, there may be only handful of people who share my excitement at seeing these masters of Italian prog rock next week and you can bet they’re all Dario Argento fans too. [...]