In this context, Raiford Guins examined how «
Italian horror films [are] reconceived through the restoration process promised by DVD (e.g., digitally remastered and uncut prints).»
Bohusz admits that he's largely unfamiliar with
the Italian horror films that inspired the American slashers, a fact that has earned him condemnation among some hardcore horror fans.
He played a similar beat in his last film, Berberian Sound Studio, which borrowed the audio - visual hallmarks of
Italian horror films, only to subvert the expectations inherent in them, instead crafting an intensely aestheticized psychological study.
If you're a giallo newbie and you're looking for a starting point into the world of wildly violent
Italian horror films, seek out Dario Argento's disconcertingly beautiful Suspiria.
Some new posters just released setting the tone of the film perfectly with its wonderful throw back look to the old
Italian horror films of the 70's.
The film has everything that you'd expect from
Italian horror films is here, and the film, though not perfect is a must see for genre fans.
Many attributes of «The Vampire» were preceded by the classic attributes of Hammer films and
Italian horror films of the 1960s.
Synopis (from festival scope): Gilderoy, a naïve sound engineer from Dorking, England, loses his grip on reality as he takes a job on
an Italian horror film in the 1970s.
Considered the most famous
Italian horror film of all time for its vivid, groundbreaking style and jaw - dropping bloodshed, now, to celebrate SUSPIRIA's Fortieth Anniversary, CultFilms is proud to terrify audiences once again with the dazzling 4K restoration of Dario Argento's groundbreaking horror masterpiece.
This short documentary, taken from the Eurotika series on Channel 4, is a lovingly crafted — albeit brief — history of
the Italian horror film.
Explaining how their new Suspiria compares to the 1977 original,
an Italian horror film about a young ballerina who uncovers sinister secrets at a prestigious dance school, Swinton told Digital Spy: «It's a cover.
Or
any Italian horror film?
Considered the most famous
Italian horror film of all time for its vivid, groundbreaking style and jaw - dropping bloodshed, Suspiria now returns for its fortieth anniversary to assault audiences once more.
Yes, there is
an Italian horror film in which a teenage Jennifer Connelly kills people with various insects.
Meanwhile, Guadagnino's next project is a remake of Dario Argento's 1977
Italian horror film Suspiria.
Not exact matches
it reminded me of classic mean girl
films like heathers mixed with 80s
italian horror.
Written and directed by Michele Soavi of Cemetery Man (1994) and The Church (1989) fame, this documentary from 1985 takes an in - depth look at Dario Argento, the master
Italian director most well known for his «giallo»
horror films.
A meek British sound engineer called, improbably, Gilderoy is hired by an
Italian film company to deploy his wizardry in maxing up the
horror effects on the soundtrack of a cheap flick about occultism.
A protégé of Dario Argento who matured to develop a unique style of his own while at once carrying the tradition of such
Italian horror icons as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Michele Soavi almost single - handedly kept the slumping
Italian horror / fantasy tradition afloat in the 1990s with his strikingly original philosophical zombie
film Dellamorte, Dellamore (1994).
Cemetery Man is a fine comedy
horror film that is effectively directed by
horror master Michele Soavi, who has made his mark in
Italian horror by directing La Chiesa (The Church).
Director, co-writer and co-producer Kim Jee - woon is one of the country's best filmmakers (of the gangster picture A Bittersweet Life and the outstanding
horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, sloppily remade here as The Uninvited) and brings his double - barreled love of
Italian - made spaghetti Westerns to the fray.
Dario Argento's
Italian horror classic Suspiria is beloved for many reasons, but high atop the list is the
film's haunting score by frequent Argento collaborators Goblin.
«Set in 1976: Gilderoy is hired to orchestrate the sound mix for the latest
film by
Italian horror maestro, Santini.
Inspired by
Italian and American
horror films of the 1980's, Road Trash is a vibrant fairy tale about a girl and her strange addiction.
A painter and cinematographer turned director, a craftsman turned celluloid dreamer, an industry veteran who created, almost single - handedly, the uniquely
Italian genre of baroque
horror known as «giallo,» he directed the most graceful and deliriously mad
horror films of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Along with a ton of other icons of genre
film including legendary
Italian Horror director Dario Argento and the cast of SUSPIRIA and more!
SRS is excited to bring you our first
Italian produced
horror film import in George Nevada's Freda and Bava inspired gore slasher, «Scarecrowd»!
«Set in 1976: Gilderoy (Jones) is hired to orchestrate the sound mix for the latest
film by
Italian horror maestro, Santini.
As experimental and organic as a Werner Herzog
film, Alejandro Jodorowsky «s Mexican -
Italian experimental
horror thriller Santa Sangre explores themes of mental illness, circus politics and familial chaos.
The 1977 classic of
Italian horror cinema, Suspiria might have seemed a sacrilegious choice for a remake if it wasn't the team of Luca Guadagnino and Tilda Swinton, who have already teamed up for two utterly sumptuous
films, Love and A Bigger Splash (above).
Plus, she wrote the introduction to Hernan Moyano's Manuel de Cine Degenero, a Spanish - language book by about Latin American
horror films, and a new introduction for the upcoming first
Italian - language edition of her own Broken Mirrors / Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento.
Former
film critic and co-author of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West,
Italian writer - director Dario Argento has devoted himself these past 40 years to gory
horror movies.
Dario Argneto's The Sandman, the long delayed project from the
Italian horror master, is finally set to begin
filming in the area surrounding Toronto, Ontario in...
If you grew up as a
horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from
Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)
Raimi, Cronenberg, Romero — all gleefully rented and devoured, as were the
films of the so - called «
Italian masters of
horror» like Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Mario Bava, and the like.
Today marks the birthday of legendary
Italian director Mario Bava, who is undoubtedly best known for his major achievements in the «giallo»
horror genre (although he created works ranging from spaghetti westerns to science fiction
films as well).
For his part,
Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino («Call Me By Your Name») wanted more time to complete his English - language»70s Berlin resetting of Dario Argento's stylized creepy
horror thriller «Suspiria,» starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, and Chloe Grace Moretz, which is heading for fall
film festivals.
As previously reported by Dark Universe, George A. Romero's newly restored 4K version of Dawn of the Dead had its premiere at the Venice
Film Festival, and
Italian horror legend Dario Argento and Neon Demon director Nicolas Winding Refn where in attendance to introduce the
film.
I like English, German,
Italian, Korean
horror films, they show more
horror, blood, guts and gore!
But even if the
film meanders more than it unnerves, more interested in creating elegant images and moments than tension or mood, the finale is perfectly orchestrated and it delivers a deliciously cruel poetic justice with echoes to Bava's Black Sunday, the
film that made Steele an icon of
Italian horror.
Edgar Allan Poe's Black Cats: Two Adaptations by Sergio Martino & Lucio Fulci (Arrow / MVD, Blu - ray + DVD) pairs up two
Italian films that use Edgar Allan Poe's «The Black Cat» as a foundation for bloody
horror but otherwise have little in common.
Awkward performances, under developed characters, flat dialogue and bad dubbing are very common in his
film as well as the
films of his
Italian horror contemporaries such as Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci.
Keaton, the grand - niece of silent
film icon Buster Keaton, had previously appeared in six «giallo»
Italian horror movies.
The first (and probably the best)
horror film from master Mario Bava works as both an homage to the Universal monster classics and an early harbinger of the graphic violence that would eventually become a large part of
Italian horror cinema.
An
Italian film production recruits Gilderoy (Toby Jones) to oversee the sound mix for their upcoming
horror film.
The
film is set in the
Italian studios of a 70s
horror film production and has been called «seriously weird and seriously good» by Bradshaw, who also said it marks Strickland's emergence as «a key British
film - maker of his generation».
Brigadoon Documentaries will weigh heavily in the Brigadoon sections, with
films such as Sangue Marginal - Relatos de cinema e vídeo underground, dedicated to Brazilian fantastique and
horror film; Eurociné 33 Champs Élysées, focused on the iconic French production company Eurociné; or The Outsider - Il cinema di Antonio Margheriti, an overview of the works of the
Italian director Antonio Margheriti.
Deepening and amplifying their super-fetishistic remix of
Italian giallo and
horror tropes in Amer (ND / NF 2010), Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani here create a delirious and increasingly baroque pastiche of the trance
film and cinema fantastique — and then push it to breaking point.
Since then we've seen Argento's
films in particular and
Italian horror more broadly become regular features in art galleries, museums, and other highbrow cultural institutions.
Burt Lancaster, the Best of» 92, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, Marguerite Duras, the Carry On comedies, Walon Green interviewed,
Italian horror, a celebration of Positif, Hal Hartley, cinematographers on
film - to - video transfer, Dick Thorpe