The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
In Dario Argento’s assured and tense debut, an American expat in Rome is entangled in a serial killer’s web.
Read More →The Black Cat
Harvey Keitel stars in this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of obsession and violence, now splendidly restored by Cinecittà.
Read More →The Cat o' Nine Tails
Do murderous thoughts lurk in our very DNA? Dario Argento interrogates nature vs nurture in his suspenseful second film.
Read More →Deep Red
Hailed as one of the greatest giallo works ever made, this oneiric fever dream about an amateur sleuth attracted praise from Alfred Hitchcock himself.
Read More →Do You Like Hitchcock?
If you like Hitchcock, you’ll love Dario Argento’s exhilarating 2005 homage to the Master of Suspense.
Read More →The Five Days
A rarely screened outlier in Argento’s career, this deliciously dark historical comedy follows a thief and a baker caught up in a political uprising.
Read More →Four Flies on Grey Velvet
A quirky and lesser-known piece of the Italian giallo maestro’s tapestry, and a lesson in cinematic innovation.
Read More →Opera
After bringing bloodshed to a ballet school in Suspiria, the giallo maestro wreaks operatic havoc on a soprano tackling a Shakespeare adaptation.
Read More →The Phantom of the Opera
There’s no-one better to deliver an outré rendition of the Music of the Night than an underground maestro who loves mayhem and organ music.
Read More →Phenomena
This oeuvre of outré, starring a then-14-year-old Jennifer Connelly, is widely regarded as one of Dario Argento’s most eccentric and bizarre films.
Read More →Suspiria
With a title derived from the Latin phrase ‘sighs from the depths’, Dario Argento’s most famous film is a masterwork of skin-crawling terror.
Read More →Tenebrae
Inspired by the director’s own brush with an obsessive fan, this stylish slasher offers meta-commentary on sexism and screen violence.
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