Blood Not So Simple
Posted by Shannon
The NY Times rather neatly explains the appeal of Dario Argento:
Making fun of this sort of ripe, over-the-top horror isn’t difficult: it’s impaling fish in a barrel. What’s tougher to account for in Mr. Argento’s work is the often extraordinary grace of his filmmaking, which shows itself in the long, tense intervals between outbursts of stomach-turning gore. He’s both a sensationalist and a sensualist, and the line that separates Argento the showman from Argento the artist is razor thin.
It’s the thinness of that line that I love so much. Read on.
Tags: dario argento, Film, giallo, horror, italy, new york times
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