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  

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 ...  

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.  

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...  

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.  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...