Dario Argento's World of Horror

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Dario Argento's World of Horror
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Directed by Michele Soavi [1]
Written byMichele Soavi [1]
Starring Dario Argento
Urbano Barberini
Ken Foree
Romano Albani
CountryItaly [1]

Dario Argento's World of Horror (Italian : Il Mondo dell'orrore di Dario Argento) is an Italian documentary film that chronicles the career of Italian director Dario Argento. [2]

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Release

Dario Argento's World of Horror was released in West Germany on home video in August 1988. [1]

Reception

From contemporary reviews, an anonymous reviewer in Fangoria , who found the film "fascinating but also strangely endearing" noting that the documentary was "a delightful eye-opener, An Americans who want to know what all the fuss is bout this visionary writer-director can get a good start here." [3] Tim Lucas wrote in Fangoria that the documentary was "fascinating" and offered many scenes that were at the time cut from American releases of Argento's films including The Bird with the Crystal Plumage , The Cat o' Nine Tails , Four Flies on Grey Velvet , Tenebrae and Suspiria . [4] Lucas also proclaimed that the films "real accomplishment is its portrait of Argento's professional intensity and dedication; he clearly deserves to be taken more seriously by American film audiences, critics, and distributors." [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Fischer Film Almanach 1989 (in German). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 1989. p. 419. ISBN   3-596-24486-2.
  2. Fischer Film Almanach 1989 (in German). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 1989. p. 420. ISBN   3-596-24486-2.
  3. "The Video Eye of Dr. Cyclops". Fangoria . Vol. 7, no. 67. September 1987. p. 19. ISSN   0164-2111.
  4. 1 2 Lucas, Tim (August 1987). "The Butchering of Argento". Fangoria. Vol. 7, no. 66. p. 65. ISSN   0164-2111.