Checked this the other day, it's well good....
... it reminded me of the awesomeness of this guy's work...
You know how horror films now are mostly really crap, well Dario Argento was a genius when it came to keeping you perched on the edge of your Chesterfield. And he managed to do it with style and the freakiest soundtrack to boot.
Argento cut his teeth working in a particular type of Italian thriller genre called Giallo. A term that translates as "yellow". It's taken from the colour of the covers of the pulp sexy gore fiction novels, a lot of the films in the genre were based on. But, it was his move into the supernatural with films like Suspiria, Inferno and Phenomena, and his teaming up with the mighty, freaky prog rock band, The Goblins that got me drawing the comparisons.
Rather than gush about an aging Italian, that is, unfortunately well past his movie making prime, I urge you to check out his two masterpieces, Profundo Rosso and Suspiria.
In the meantime, have a gander at The Goblins: soundtrack- ers to the 70s horror.
(fans of Justice will recognise the hook sampled from the theme from Tenebrae).
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