Dario Argento

Arguably one of Italy's best and well-known horror directors, Dario Argento began his career as a screenwriter in the 1960s, notably co-scripting Sergio Leone's spaghetti western "Once Upon A Time in the West" with Bernardo Bertolucci. He is best known for his work in the murder-mystery realm of Italian giallo films -- and as the father of cult actress-director Asia Argento -- and accordingly, his "Bird with the Crystal Plumage" (1969), "Deep Red" (1975) and "Suspiria" (1977) mark the best of these proto-slasher Italian thrillers. Argento's trademark tendencies toward highly stylized, shocking screen violence and surprise-twist plots mark him as an auteur and inspiration to subsequent generations of horror film and art-house directors alike.

The blood pours freely in Argento's classic Suspiria, a giallo horror as grandiose and glossy as it is gory.

Dario Argento's masterpiece of horror, with its assault of garish colors, booming soundtrack and horrifically dreamlike set pieces, is the cinematic equivalent of an exceptionally scary fun house. It tells...

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