Dario Argento

David Rooney Thomas Kretschmann, Asia Argento and Rutger Hauer hit Transylvania in Italian horror veteran Dario Argento's take on the Bram Stoker classic.read more  

With: Thomas Kretschmann, Marta Gastini, Asia Argento, Unax Ugalde, Rutger Hauer, Miriam Giovanelli, Giuseppe Lo Console, Franco Ravera, Giovanni Franzoni, Christian Burruano. (English dialogue) A blatant farce from its first scene of a naked tryst turned ...  

At a film festival dominated by subtitled deep-think, you sometimes need a break. You need a meal, or a drink,  

Sitting in a theater watching a fair few people walk out in protest at the poor quality of Dracula 3D, you have to wonder whether they knew anything about horror legend Dario Argento, and if so what exactly they expected from the director whose name alone guarantees an audience. Because Argento has a certain set of skills, which aren’t necessarily reconcilable with what is great about film these days, but to give due credit, he hasn’t really...  

I’m a card-carrying member of the cult of Stanley Kubrick — I can, and do, watch his movies over and over again — but I have never found The Shining to be a remotely scary movie. Fascinating, yes, but not scary. Where I think my experience ...  

ROME (AFP) - Horror is coming to the Cannes Film Festival this week, courtesy of Italian cult director Dario Argento who told AFP in an interview that his 3-D Dracula is 'a man for our times'. One of Quentin Tarantino's biggest inspirations, the ...  

AFP - Horror is coming to the Cannes Film Festival this week, courtesy of Italian cult director Dario Argento who told AFP in an interview that his 3D Dracula is "a man for our times". One of Quentin Tarantino's biggest inspirations, the 71-year ...  

Today we have a trailer for "Dracula 3D," directed by Dario Argento (Giallo, Suspiria), and starring Rutger Hauer as Van Helsing and Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong) as Dracula. It was shot entirely in stereoscopic 3D and will screen at the Cannes Film ...  

Today we have a trailer for "Dracula 3D," directed by Dario Argento (Giallo, Suspiria), and starring Rutger Hauer as Van Helsing and Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong) as Dracula. It was shot entirely in stereoscopic 3D and will screen at the Cannes Film ...  

I can't say I was really expecting much, but this new trailer for Dario Argento's Dracula 3D, which will be screening at the Cannes 2012 Film Festival isn't exactly doing it for me.  

Although, to the uninitiated, the frequently used analogy "the Italian Hitchcock" may offer a quick and tidy summation of director Dario Argento's enduring career, this overused comparison ultimately fails to give Argento due credit for his undeniable ...  

Publicity is beginning for the Cannes Film Festival entries and now I have some first look images at Dario Argento's Dracula 3D, Michael Haneke's Amour and Matteo Garrone's Reality.  

David Gordon Green, director of 2008's "Pineapple Express ... The 1977 film is something of a classic in horror circles, sporting a memorable score from the Italian rock band Goblin and a nightmarish color palate that uses liberal amounts ...  

The real Jackie Chan stayed in the TV of 90s. Argento family, which unveiled Dracula 3D at the festival was quite impressive. Dario Argento looks so much like his characters, you wouldn’t want to stumble upon him even on the lightest of nights.  

Dracula” for night owls Horror came to the Cannes Film Festival this week, courtesy of Italian cult director Dario Argento. 3D technology will make Dracula "even scarier" because it makes the action "more convincing," said Argento. Argento said the film ...  

It's not often one gets the opportunity to watch Italian horror giallo director Dario Argento's film masterpieces on the big screen, including his most lauded film Suspiria this Thursday, so book a flight or gas up a car and head to the Big Apple now.  

For four years now, David Gordon Green has been working on a remake of Dario Argento‘s 1977 horror classic Suspiria. For a while the movie looked to be coming together for a 2010 start, but it wasn’t until summer 2010 that Argento finally turned over the rights, so Green’s project got off schedule. Green never gave up, [...]  

On paper, it looked like a dream project – horror masters Dario Argento and George Romero re-teaming for the first time since Argento served as producer on Romero’s seminal splatter masterpiece Dawn of the Dead (1978) but this time each gentleman would be directing one half of an Edgar Allan Poe anthology. Originally, Argento had planned the film to involve two other directors as well (reportedly John Carpenter and Wes Craven), but...  

by Nick Schager [This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the female boarding-school chiller The Moth Diaries.] Dario Argento's fascination with sight takes sexually anxious form in Phenomena, the Italian giallo maestro's surreal 1985 saga of boarding school maturation. That carnal awakening isn't overt in Argento's film, which is nominally about a serial killer stalking young females in a remote Swiss village, a spree that...  

But that's just part of challenge of being at a top school, isn't it? Dario Argento's giallo masterpiece ... they are the key to finding the murderer. The film is not as gory as many of Argento's other films, but the moment when Corvino falls in a pool ...  

Italian/American actress and singer Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, she of DEMONS 2 and MOTHER OF TEARS fame, particpated in The Museum of Art and Design's recent Dario Argento retrospective by introducing and doing a post-screening Q for the maestro's classic film OPERA.  

Thomas Kretschmann plays the Count. Rutger Hauer is Van Helsing. Argento has been speaking about this surprising turn of events. “I’d never been in the selection of this festival and, more importantly, horror had never made it in Cannes. I broke a dam ...  

I didn’t know he went into acting. Anyway, as terrible as this is, I’ll see it, because I hate myself. This comes out in stereoscopic 3D at some point, hopefully before Asia Argento od’s on smack. Thanks Felix for the heads-up.  

Meanwhile, the solid cinematography of Mario Mancini frames the film’s bloody murder scenes with suitable style, although perhaps of the upper echelon levels of giallo masters Sergio Martino, Bava or Dario Argento. Particular emphasis should also be plac ...  

There have been countless Counts depicted on film over the past century, and the Dracula industry continues apace in the 21st: a new film, Dracula 3D, starring Rutger Hauer and directed by Dario Argento (who was behind the cult horror, Suspiria), is ...  

With decent acting and a performance pedigree more or less lifted from early period Dario Argento (many in the cast have a link to the Italian Master of Suspense), there is a lot of curiosity factor with this film. Still, all interest aside, Night Train ...  

Following the exciting news that restored versions of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava’s blood-curdling zombie horror classics DEMONS & DEMONS 2 will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and Steelbook on April 30th, Arrow Video are pleased to premiere exclusive ...  

The last time we heard anything concrete about David Gordon Green’s long-planned remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria, it was 2009. Green planned to kick off filming on the project in 2010, but got stuck into comedy instead with Your Highness and The Sitter.  

The Fairy Tale Movie: With its witches, labyrinths and deep, dark forests, there's no mistaking the fairy tale origins of Dario Argento's classic horror film. The lurid colour scheme and disconcertingly barmy storyline give it the slippery ambiguity ...  

Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo horror classic SUSPIRIA is still considered one of the genre’s most defining films. It was also recently confirmed UNDERTOW and PINEAPPLE EXPRESS director David Gordon Green, will helm a remake of the supernatural-thriller.  

Sometimes a fresh thought from outside of America can reinvigorate fans. In some ways, the reediting of "Dawn of the Dead" by Dario Argento was superior to the original introduced by George Romero in the United States. The European version was much darker ...  

CHICAGO — “Oh! Dario Argento’s Dracula!” On the phone early Thursday, scanning the freshly announced lineup of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Barbara Scharres of the Gene Siskel Film Center expressed delight at the inclusion of the Italian horror ...  

Dario Argento's "Suspiria," "Scooby-Doo," the tantalizing vagaries of the TV show "Lost" (on which Goddard worked) all become part of an extremely thick stew. Five college friends pile into a camper for a frolicsome vacation. There's the alpha male hunk ...  

What's it about: A 3D re-telling of Bram Stoker's Dracula from B-movie director Dario Argento. What's it about: Retired music teachers Anne and George live together. One day Anne becomes half-paralysed after suffering a stroke. What's it about: A veteran ...  

To say that we're curious about David Gordon Green's upcoming remake of Suspiria, the horror classic by Dario Argento, would be a hell of an understatement. It's hard to write the film off as just another rehash when the director of George Washington is involved.  

And his next film, Torture Chamber, looks like it'll be another horror fan favorite, with shades of The Exorcist and the work of Dario Argento visible in its trailer -- which you can view after the jump. Here's the official synopsis of Dante Tomaselli's ...  

Co-written by European horror godfather Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red) and directed by Lamberto Bava (Macabre), the grisly demonic flick and its equally disturbing sequel will be available in the UK on April 30, 2012. Each release comes with ...  

Just in time to sell foreign distribution rights at Cannes, Crime Scene Pictures announces enticing cast additions to their remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria. Isabelle Furhman, who terrorized audiences in Orphan and The Hunger Games as a pint ...  

On Sunday, new heir to the giallo crown, Andreas Marschall, will attend a preview screening of his movie Masks, followed by a screening of a rare archive print of Master of Giallo, Dario Argento’s Four Flies on Grey Velvet. For festival passes ...  

CHICAGO - "Oh! 'Dario Argento's Dracula'!" On the phone early Thursday, scanning the freshly announced lineup of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Barbara Scharres of the Gene Siskel Film Center expressed delight at the inclusion of the Italian ...  

David Gordon Green set out to remake Dario Argento’s classic horror film a few years back, but it’s taken a while to actually get moving. Now that the finances are in order and casting is underway, /Film is reporting that the production has ...  

"Oh! 'Dario Argento's Dracula'!" On the phone early Thursday, scanning the freshly announced lineup of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Barbara Scharres of the Gene Siskel Film Center expressed delight at the inclusion of the Italian horror ...  

As a long time horror film buff, I absolutely loved Suspiria. 

Released in 1977, Suspiria is director Dario Argento’s masterpiece. The movie is an incredible visual and aural nightmare, with amazing set pieces and a groundbreaking score ...  

Saturday May 19, even Cannes can’t escape from the Vampire obsessed film genre as Dario Argento’s “Dracula 3D,” premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.  Whatever your movie choice this week, please remember your movie theater etiquette ...  

For those with more nocturnal proclivities, Cannes will get out its garlic and wooden stakes for a midnight screening of Dario Argento’s highly awaited “Dracula” in 3-D. Several Cannes winners are back this year, including Austria’s ...  

Green’s remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 cult horror thriller, about an American student who stumbles on a coven of witches while studying in Europe, will start shooting in September. Wild Bunch is launching international sales at Cannes.