This is for Horror fans: Dario Argento Returns with The Sandman (& Iggy Pop)

Jondalar · #1 12-03-2014, 10:43 AM

Love him! His movies are so atmospheric. Susperia and Demons rock!!!!

**SisterNightroad** · #2 12-03-2014, 11:16 AM

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Love him! His movies are so atmospheric. Susperia and Demons rock!!!!

I love him too, Suspiria is my all time favourite horror movie.
On Demons he was just producer or writer, I don't remember well, and two of his daughters had minor roles; the director is his friend Lamberto Bava, son of the first great Italian horror director Mario Bava, you should check them out.

Jondalar · #3 12-03-2014, 07:22 PM

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I love him too, Suspiria is my all time favourite horror movie.
On Demons he was just producer or writer, I don't remember well, and two of his daughters had minor roles; the director is his friend Lamberto Bava, son of the first great Italian horror director Mario Bava, you should check them out.

I'm a horror buff. I have followed him for a long time. In fact have some of his soundtracks. Demons has his feel all over it. Love the Bird with the Crystal Plummage. An Unexpected Violence is one of the best, moodiest soundtrack pieces ever. The same composer composed music for The Exorcist 2: The Heretic.

sorcerer999 · #4 12-03-2014, 09:56 PM

I'm also a big fan of Argento. "Phenomena", to this day, still gives me the worst nightmares!!! I'm really hoping Sandman is a "return to form" for him!

**SisterNightroad** · #5 12-04-2014, 08:39 AM

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I'm a horror buff. I have followed him for a long time. In fact have some of his soundtracks. Demons has his feel all over it. Love the Bird with the Crystal Plummage. An Unexpected Violence is one of the best, moodiest soundtrack pieces ever. The same composer composed music for The Exorcist 2: The Heretic.

Ennio Morricone is arguably the best italian composer, he is most known his work with Sergio Leone, that was the master of Dario Argento. He was perfect for the soundtrack of the Giallo "animal trilogy" of Argento, "The bird with the crystal plummage", "The Cat o' Nine Tails", "Four Flies on Grey Velvet", but the most perfect fit for Argento were the soundtracks composed by the italian progressive rock band Goblin for "Deep red", "Suspiria", "Tenebrae" and "Phenomena":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AMz...vM_-GLnih-DhmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV76...vM_-GLnih-DhmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3K2...vM_-GLnih-DhmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fpt...vM_-GLnih-DhmA

The images are from a series of beautiful limited edition posters. My closest friends gave me one on my 21st birtday.

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I'm also a big fan of Argento. "Phenomena", to this day, still gives me the worst nightmares!!! I'm really hoping Sandman is a "return to form" for him!

I hope too, because his last movie, "Dracula" 3D was a bit disappointing. I think his last GREAT movie was Opera. The stendhal sindrome was good too, but I don't like his daughter Asia Argento's acting skills too much.
Yeah, that deformed child is one of the most anguishing thing I've ever seen!

sorcerer999 · #6 12-04-2014, 08:42 PM

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Yeah, that deformed child is one of the most anguishing thing I've ever seen!

Not just that, but the opening scene with the girl's head going through the glass window in slow motion, and the shards come crashing down on her face...

...and the one guy getting beheaded with the thin piece of sheet metal (or whatever it was)...

...and then, yes, the deformed child...

(shudder)

Jondalar · #7 12-05-2014, 11:00 PM

I have to say I was a bit disappointed with the Mother Trilogy. Suspiria was superb but I thought the last one, Mother of Tears sort of fizzled out. Inferno was solo weird.

Maxd9 · #8 01-09-2015, 05:34 PM

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The images are from a series of beautiful limited edition posters. My closest friends gave me one on my 21st birtday.

This! My best friend gave me the Phenomena poster this Christmas. Jennifer has embossed insects in her hair. It's gorgeous!

**SisterNightroad** · #9 01-09-2015, 05:54 PM

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This! My best friend gave me the Phenomena poster this Christmas. Jennifer has embossed insects in her hair. It's gorgeous!

I have my favourite movie's poster, Suspiria, and the dancer has beautiful gold finishings in her hair and she's wrapped in silver metal-wire.
It's beautiful and I commissioned a beautiful golden frame with red velvet inside for it last year as Christmas gift.