Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Creator / DarioArgento

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


Dario Argento (born 7 September 1940) is an Italian horror director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his unique visual style and seminal work in the {{giallo}} sub genre. Though never particularly coherent or well-written, his films remain quite frightening and ''very'' cool to look at when he's at the top of his game. Widely considered to be at his peak during TheSeventies and TheEighties, with ''Deep Red'' (aka ''Profondo Rosso'') and ''Suspiria'' usually cited as his best work, and ''Trauma'' as the last really watchable film he made (though ''The Stendhal Syndrome'' is slowly becoming [[VindicatedByHistory appreciated]]).

to:

Dario Argento (born 7 September 1940) is an Italian horror director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his unique visual style and seminal work in the {{giallo}} sub genre.SubGenre. Though never particularly coherent or well-written, his films remain quite frightening and ''very'' cool to look at when he's at the top of his game. Widely considered to be at his peak during TheSeventies and TheEighties, with ''Deep Red'' (aka ''Profondo Rosso'') and ''Suspiria'' usually cited as his best work, and ''Trauma'' as the last really watchable film he made (though ''The Stendhal Syndrome'' is slowly becoming [[VindicatedByHistory appreciated]]).

Added: 9

Changed: 28

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


[[index]]



* ''Film/TheChurch'' (1989; Writer and Producer)

to:

* ''Film/TheChurch'' ''[[Film/TheChurch1989 TheChurch]]'' (1989; Writer and Producer)




to:

[[/index]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* ColorMotif / ColorWash: Red and [[UnnaturallyBlueLighting blue]], as you can see in ''Film/Suspiria1977.'' ''Film/ProfondoRosso'' is also a good example.

to:

* ColorMotif / ColorWash: Red and [[UnnaturallyBlueLighting blue]], as you can see in ''Film/Suspiria1977.'' ''Film/ProfondoRosso'' ''Film/DeepRed'' is also a good example.

Changed: 353

Removed: 303

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


%%* MindScrew
* PlayingAgainstType: In the Creator/GasparNoe film ''Vortex'', Argento acts rather than directs, and far from playing a horror villain instead portrays a well-meaning if distant old man who has to deal with his wife's stroke and the subsequent deterioration of both their health and their relationship.

to:

%%* MindScrew
* PlayingAgainstType: In the Creator/GasparNoe film ''Vortex'', Argento acts rather than directs, and far from playing a horror villain instead portrays a well-meaning if distant old man who has to deal with his wife's stroke dementia and the subsequent deterioration of both their health and their relationship.relationship. And he speaks in accented French.



%%* TwistEnding

to:

%%* TwistEnding
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* PlayingAgainstType: In the Creator/GasparNoe film ''Vortex'', Argento acts rather than directs, and far from playing a horror villain instead portrays a well-meaning if distant old man who has to deal with his wife's stroke and the subsequent deterioration of both their health and their relationship.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

**Likewise its the only Dario movie where [[spoiler: the killer doesn't die at the end of the film and instead is arrested]]

Added: 473

Changed: 508

Removed: 30

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* CreatorCameo: Several of Argento's films feature an opening narration. In the original Italian, the narrator is Argento himself.
** See also HandOfDeath below.

to:

* CreatorCameo: Several of Argento's films feature an opening narration. In the original Italian, the narrator is Argento himself.
**
himself. See also HandOfDeath below.



* ExecutiveMeddling: Argento's reputation as the most censored man in films; the bulk of his films have been heavily cut for US release, most notably ''Suspiria'' (most of the major murder scenes are hacked up to remove just about all of the gore) and Tenebre (released as Unsane) not only lost about ten minutes of key scenes (including the film's two big set piece scenes and the series of flashbacks that explain the killer's motives) but also tact on a disco song over the end credits...

to:

* ExecutiveMeddling: ExecutiveMeddling:
**
Argento's reputation as the most censored man in films; the bulk of his films have been heavily cut for US release, most notably ''Suspiria'' (most of the major murder scenes are hacked up to remove just about all of the gore) and Tenebre (released as Unsane) not only lost about ten minutes of key scenes (including the film's two big set piece scenes and the series of flashbacks that explain the killer's motives) but also tact on a disco song over the end credits...



* ProductionPosse: Frequently works with Daria Nicoldi, his daughter Creator/AsiaArgento, and the Italian prog-rock band Goblin.

to:

* ProductionPosse: Frequently works with Daria Nicoldi, his daughter Creator/AsiaArgento, and the Italian prog-rock band Goblin.Music/{{Goblin}}.

Top