Director of the Month: Dario Argento
Hello and welcome to Director of the Month, your cut-out-and-keep guide to the very finest auteurs in filmland… This Month: Dario Argento Nationality: Italian D.O.B: 07/09/1940 Years active: 1970 – present Number of films (as director): 19 Do say: “You are undoubtedly one of the most influential horror directors of [...]
What’s “Surreal”, Man?
Surreal. Surreal. It’s one of those words, isn’t it? It seems to me that often people aren’t 100% sure of what it actually really means exactly, but it still gets used an awful lot. A bit like “ironic”. However, a quick glance in the dictionary tells us that surreal means: 1.  Having qualities attributed to [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
The Cat o’ Nine Tails (Dario Argento, 1971) So what’s been happening since the last time I did a Morricone Monday? Well, Michael Jackson died, of course. You may have noticed that this website was probably the only media outlet in the world that didn’t register some kind of tribute to [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970) Ennio Morricone is most famous for his work with Sergio Leone. Si? The films of Dario Argento are most closely associated with the music of Italian prog-rock monsters, Goblin. No? However, if we set aside these widely known and universally acclaimed creative partnerships for a moment, [...]
Film of the Day – Hatchet for the Honeymoon (Mario Bava, 1970)
Back when Days Are Numbers ran its giallo special, we rightfully acknowledged the great Mario Bava as the indisputable godfather of the Italian slasher-cum-murder mystery. Perhaps less correctly, however, we listed the horror/sci-fi/fantasy/sex comedy maestro’s contributions to the genre as numbering four; The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Blood and [...]
It’s STILL Halloween!
Hello boys and ghouls. It’s actually not still Halloween, of course. But, for the purposes of finishing our rundown of the top 13 horror films of all time, we’re going to pretend it is. Hope you all had a spooky one and enjoyed yourselves. You didn’t just stay in watching Halloween 2 on BBC1, [...]
Yellow Peril
Like just about every fellow aficionado I have encountered, I was introduced to the fiendish allure of the Italian giallo when I first saw Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso. A confirmed fan of the maestro already, this mesmerising, mind-bending murder mystery was like nothing I had ever seen before. Henceforth, I [...]