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Dario Argento: Doors Into Darkness

Delve into a world of dreams and disorientation from the Italian horror maestro.

For over five decades, Dario Argento has crafted some of horror’s most beautifully nightmarish imagery, pushing the boundaries of the genre with elaborate works that would feel equally at home in an art gallery as they would in a fleapit cinema.

The textures, tones and reverberations of Argento’s visions are so evocative, the mere mention of his name can transport you to a psychotropic German dance academy, or send you soaring over a brutalist apartment building in the dead of night. After more than 50 years crafting a body of work so distinctive and singular, the comparisons with Hitchcock that accompanied his early works are no longer necessary. If there is one filmmaker whose name speaks for itself, it’s Dario Argento.

- Michael Blyth, season curator

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Horror198790 minsDirector: Michele Soavi

Dario Argento's protégé, Michele Soavi, made his directorial debut with this deliriously stylish slasher opus.

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Horror1987107 minsDirector: Dario Argento

Boasting quite possibly his most iconic single image, almost certainly his most spectacular death scene, and indisputably his most insane ending, this is essential Argento.