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To that end, Vulturehas compiled this cursory overview of Argentos best work.
A hot tip for those intrigued by his methods: Google Sergio Martino.
Then Google Mario Bava.
Then Google Lucio Fulci.
you’re free to probably take it from there.
Good luck purging theinfant-babble lullabymocking the audiences terror from your nightmares.
A warning for the uninitiated: Youll never look at a glowing peacock talisman the same way again.
The denouement dives even deeper into the meta-textual, gleefully implicating Argento himself in his crimes against sensitive tastes.
Its rather telling that Argentos most personal film involves sexual humiliation and temporary dissociation.
But Argentos secret weapon was always the mundane.
Prior to all that, however, he pulled off a family affair on American soil.
Posterity has identifiedTraumaas a departure for Argento on several fronts.
And yet all of Dario Argentos films (even the bad ones!)
are so immutablyhis, all but embossed with his proprietary stamp in blood.
He laid full claim to the vivid, oneiric strain of horror that the franchise mainstream doesnt dare touch.
