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It’s that special time of year again, folks. A time when pumpkins come out, ghouls are prone to haunt, and streamers of all variety load their platforms with terrifying selections aimed at attracting horror fans and casual viewers alike. This year, those selections are quite exceptional, with loads of franchises like “Saw” and “The Omen” to keep people glued to their TV all the way up to Halloween. Not interested in violence or gore? Put away your fears, as there are plenty of options for the more tame and easily frightened. From classic Stephen King adaptations like “Salem’s Lot” (1979) to recent theatrical releases that are now streaming, such as “Late Night with the Devil,” if you’re looking for a good scare, you can probably find a few on one or more of the apps you subscribe to.

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If you are a horror fan then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription you might be wondering what’s in store for you in October 2024. Don’t worry there is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month and we have listed the 13 best movies coming to Shudder in October 2024.

Hush (October 1)

Hush is a slasher horror thriller film directed by Mike Flanagan who also co-wrote the film with Kate Siegel. The 2016 film follows the story of a dead writer living in a remote house in the woods but when a masked killer appears in the window she must fight for her survival. Hush stars Kate Siegel in the lead role with John Gallagher Jr.,...

Underway now through July 16, Severin Films‘ annual summer sale is the most ambitious in the company’s history. The Dario Argento’s Opera five-disc box set — which you can preview in an exclusive clip below — is the headliner, but there are nine more releases in addition to exclusive merchandise and big savings on past inventory.

Here’s everything you need to know about this year’s Severin Summer Sale…

Opera

In my eyes — held open with needles, of course — Opera is Argento’s last true masterpiece. While the Italian maestro attained fleeting moments of greatness later in his oeuvre, Opera is the last of his efforts that can hold its own alongside his earlier, career-defining work like Suspiria, Deep Red, Tenebrae, and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.

Co-written by Argento and frequent collaborator Franco Ferrini, the giallo stars Cristina Marsillach as Betty, a young opera singer whose big break...

The highly anticipated third film in Ti West‘s X trilogy, MaXXXine is finally here, and the fans of the franchise are loving it. With a setting of the 80s when the real-life Night Stalker murders took place, the final film in the X trilogy follows the story of Maxine Minx as she finally gets her big break into the film industry, but when a mysterious serial killer begins to kill the starlets of Hollywood, Maxine’s future in the City of Angels comes into danger. MaXXXine stars Mia Goth in the lead role with Elizabeth Debicki, Halsey, Lily Collins, Sophie Thatcher, Moses Sumney, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Giancarlo Esposito, Chloe Farnworth, and Bobby Cannavale starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the glitz, glamour, murder, and mystery in MaXXXine, here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Pearl is the second film...

Ti West’s “MaXXXine” has slashed its way into theaters. And the third film in the trilogy that began with 2022’s “X” and continued with the prequel “Pearl,” is perhaps the installment most steeped in other movies. This is a movie where, when a character is threatening Maxine (Mia Goth), the porn star that survived the events of “X” and now, circa “MaXXXine” is struggling to make it in mainstream Hollywood in 1985, they send her a newspaper clipping with the headline: “The Texas Porn Star Massacre,” a direct reference to Tobe Hooper’s immortal “Texas Chain Saw Massacre.”

And that’s just the beginning of the metatextual delights that make “MaXXXine” so special. We thought that we’d talk about five of the movies that fundamentally inspired “MaXXXine.”

Since we’ll be talking about plot specifics, consider this your mild spoiler warning before we get into it.

“Psycho” (1960) Universal Pictures...

Despite being hailed by Martin Scorsese as one of the best Italian films of the 1990s, Cemetery Man is criminally underseen. Also known as Dellamorte Dellamore, the 1994 cult classic has been hard to come by in the US since Anchor Bay’s 2006 DVD went out of print, but Severin Films has revived it with a 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray edition.

Dario Argento protégé Michele Soavi directs from a script by Gianni Romoli, based on the 1991 novel Dellamorte Dellamore by Tiziano Sclavi — itself a precursor to Sclavi’s influential Italian horror comic Dylan Dog. Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding), on whom the Dylan Dog character was visually based, takes on the lead role as Francesco Dellamorte.

As he explains in the noir-esque opening narration, Dellamorte is the watchman for a small town cemetery wherein “some people, on the seventh night after their death, come back to life.” He and his slow-witted but genial assistant,...

"Once the sound of the future, now awesomely retro..." Every month, the Criterion Channel streaming service (one of the best in cinema) debuts a series of programming collections. Each one features a batch of films with a particular theme or connection by actor / director / composer. This is one of the best sets that I need to feature! One of June's latest offerings is Synth Soundtracks - a collection of 20 films featuring synthesizer scores, ranging from classics like Forbidden Planet (1956) and Thief (1981) to more obscure titles like Space Is the Place (1974) and Cat People (1982). Everyone knows Vangelis' iconic synth score for Blade Runner, but this selection went with Vangelis' other film Missing (1982). I enjoy this kind of curation because there's such a range of unique movies, not only expected classics. This also includes: A Clockwork Orange (1971), Shogun Assassin (1980), The Legend of Hell House (1973), Liquid Sky (1982), Tenebrae (1982), For All Mankind (1989), Delta Space...

The Southwest’s premiere horror convention since 2006, Texas Frightmare Weekend is back from May 17-May 19 at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas, and Bloody Disgusting has learned that a brand new Texas-based pop art gallery named Outpost 512 will have a presence at the event with their first four licensed posters based on horror movie favorites.

The Outpost 512 team tells us, “We hire artists to create bespoke art for our favorite cult films. Our enthusiasm for films and art can be seen in every limited screen print we create. With over 10 years of working with the best artists and screen printers from all over the world, we take great care to ensure that the poster created stays true to the heart and soul of the film.”

“We bring high quality screen printed posters to our customers whether it is within the walls of our new brick and mortar location right outside of Austin,...

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin will perform the group’s score to George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead during three special shows in the US later this month.

Taking place in Los Angeles, Austin, and New York City in late May, these concerts are billed as the “last-ever” live performances of the score. A press releases stresses that no further dates will be added. Tickets are available for purchase here.

Along with a performance of the Dawn of the Dead score, each show will also see Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin play a “best of” set pulling from the group’s other scores including Deep Red, Suspiria, and Tenebrae.

The performances coincide with 45th anniversary of Romero’s zombie classic and the film’s return to theaters and drive-ins across North Americans.

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin’s “Dawn of the Dead” Performances

05/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Orpheum Theatre

05/27 – Austin, TX @ The Paramount Theatre

05/27 – New York,...

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin will perform the group’s score to George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead during three special shows in the US later this month.

Taking place in Los Angeles, Austin, and New York City in late May, these concerts are billed as the “last-ever” live performances of the score. A press releases stresses that no further dates will be added. Tickets are available for purchase here.

Along with a performance of the Dawn of the Dead score, each show will also see Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin play a “best of” set pulling from the group’s other scores including Deep Red, Suspiria, and Tenebrae.

The performances coincide with 45th anniversary of Romero’s zombie classic and the film’s return to theaters and drive-ins across North Americans.

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin’s “Dawn of the Dead” Performances

05/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Orpheum Theatre

05/27 – Austin, TX @ The Paramount Theatre

05/27 – New York,...

Guillermo del Toro, Nicolas Winding Refn and more sing the Italian director’s praises in this dexterous look back over his career – but his dark side still shines through

There’s a revealing moment at the end of this sturdy documentary about the Italian film-maker Dario Argento, when his daughter Asia remembers his state of mind when he came home from the David di Donatello awards, Italy’s version of the Oscars, in 2019. Over the course of his career – which is still ongoing – 84-year-old Argento had never won a David for any of his strange, unique films, such as Profondo Rosso (1975), Suspiria (1977) or Tenebre (1982) to name just three of his best known. But that year, the Italian Academy gave him a lifetime achievement award. Asia recalls that when they got back from the ceremony, he shrugged and said “sticazzi” – “who cares?”. He only really cares about the work itself, she explains,...

Shudder documentary restrospective Dario Argento Panico highlights the influential work of Giallo maestro Dario Argento, and it’s assembled a Murderers’ Row of talent discussing the filmmaker’s works. That includes Italian composer and Goblin founder Claudio Simonetti and acclaimed filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn.

In an exclusive clip below, Claudio Simonetti and Nicolas Winding Refn discuss Argento’s bloody Giallo film Tenebrae. Watch for insight on the film’s music and its enduring influence.

The documentary will arrive on Shudder on February 2, 2024.

The official Dario Argento Panico synopsis: “In the secluded ambiance of hotel rooms, Dario Argento crafted his greatest cinematic creations, seeking solace from the outside world to delve into his nightmares. Now, he finds himself in a hotel room to return to the very setting that ignited his creative fervor to conclude his latest script and participate in an intimate interview, all while being followed by a film...

Linnea Quigley has more than earned her spot as a preeminent scream queen. In addition to genre classics like The Return of the Living Dead, Silent Night, Deadly Night, and Night of the Demons, the actress was so prolific throughout the ’80s and ’90s that some of her micro-budget B-movies are still being discovered to this day. Scream Queen is, in fact, the second “lost” Quigley film unearthed by Visual Vengeance, following Heartland of Darkness.

25 years after its inception, Scream Queen is reaching viewers on Blu-ray. The bulk of the flick was shot on S-vhs in less than a week in early 1998 with the rest being piecemealed together on weekends. Post-production was finally completed in 2002, after which it received a blink-and-you-miss-it VHS release. A DVD release was planned in 2012 but fell through at the last minute due to the distributor’s bankruptcy.

Scream Queen was the first “real” movie written...

"I do what I do because I want to be loved!" Shudder has revealed an official US trailer for the documentary film titled Dario Argento Panico (also called just Panico). "Experience the world of Dario Argento like never before." This originally premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival last year in the "Venice Classics" section. It is the first biopic doc ever dedicated to Argento. The film zooms in on titular Italian filmmaker Dario Argento as he finishes writing the script for his last feature in a hotel as a film crew shoots a movie about him. "It is an immersive deep dive into the creative process and life of Argento and features exclusive interviews with the legendary filmmaker and insight from other acclaimed directors like Gaspar Noé, Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn about his impact on the horror genre and generations of other directors." Argento is now 83 years...

Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, or even Sergio Martino may pop into cinephile’s heads when thinking of Giallo’s greatest directors. But only one name is truly synonymous with the Italian sub-genre, and that’s Dario Argento. Don’t believe us? Maybe “Dario Argento Panico,” a new doc about the director that premieres on Shudder next month, will convince the uninitiated.

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Simone Scafidi‘s doc takes a retrospective look at Argento’s life and career, from his early days making classic Giallos like “The Girl Who Knew Too Much” to his aesthetically daring apex of “Suspiria,” “Inferno,” and “Tenebrae.” “Dario Argento Panico” features interview with Argento, his daughter Asia Argento, as well as filmmakers like Guillermo Del Toro, Gaspar Noé, and Nicolas Winding Refn, and screenwriter Franco Ferrini.

Continue reading ‘Dario Argento Panico’ Trailer: Doc About The Giallo Master Premieres On Shudder On February 2 at The Playlist.

Giallo Maestro Dario Argento will be featured in Dario Argento Panico, a documentary retrospective acquired by Shudder. A new trailer debuted today that teases the notable talking heads featured in the personal portrait of the acclaimed fimmaker.

The documentary will arrive on Shudder on February 2, 2024, after making its world premiere at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.

Watch the trailer and get a peek at the new poster, a fun nod to the yellow “giallo” translation, below.

The official Dario Argento Panico synopsis: “In the secluded ambiance of hotel rooms, Dario Argento crafted his greatest cinematic creations, seeking solace from the outside world to delve into his nightmares. Now, he finds himself in a hotel room to return to the very setting that ignited his creative fervor to conclude his latest script and participate in an intimate interview, all while being followed by a film crew documenting his life for a movie about his illustrious career.

Genre icon Dario Argento is the focus on the documentary Dario Argento Panico, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival back in September – the same time we got our hands on the trailer embedded above. Today, Deadline reports that Dario Argento Panico has been acquired by the Shudder streaming service, and they’re planning to start streaming the in film the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand on February 2nd.

Before we reach that date, the documentary is set to have its U.S. premiere at the IFC Center in New York during their theatrical retrospective Panic Attacks: The Films of Dario Argento, which is set to run from January 31st through February 8th.

Directed by Simone Scafidi and produced by Paguro Film, Dario Argento Panico is said to offer an insightful journey through the life and legacy of the legendary Italian filmmaker,...

Of all the leading Italian horror filmmakers, including auteurs like Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento is the most recognized and widely renowned. Per Deadline, the Giallo Maestro will be featured in Dario Argento Panico, a documentary retrospective acquired by Shudder.

The documentary will arrive on Shudder on February 2, 2024, after making its world premiere at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.

Dario Argento Panico follows “an insightful journey through the life and legacy of the legendary Italian filmmaker, revealing his profound impact on horror and his lasting influence on cinema. It was in the secluded ambience of hotel rooms that Argento crafted his greatest cinematic creations, seeking solace from the outside world to delve into his nightmares. Now, he finds himself in a hotel room to return to the very setting that ignited his creative fervor to conclude his latest script and participate in an intimate interview, all while being followed...

Dario Argento’s classic Phenomena has just landed on Screambox, courtesy of Synapse.

Also known as Creepers, the 1985 Giallo stars Jennifer Connelly and Halloween‘s Donald Pleasence.

Connelly portrays an American at a Swiss finishing school who calls on insects to help a paralyzed scientist (Pleasence) fight a monster.

Phenomena has been celebrated several times here on Bloody Disgusting, including a remembrance of Igna, the extremely smart chimpanzee owned by Pleasence’s character.

Other Argento classics on Screambox include Deep Red, Tenebrae, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and The Wax Mask.

Screambox’s December has been jam-packed, including the goriest film you’ve never seen, Adam Chaplin, as well as the “Frankenstein”-inspired Santastein, body-swap thriller Devils, and Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive! Get all of the details here.

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Watching Santastein as part of this year's Popcorn Frights Film Festival felt like unwrapping a Christmas gift extra early this past summer, so I'm especially excited that Manuel Camilion and Benjamin Edelman's new holiday horror film is coming to Screambox on December 19th as part of their streaming lineup this month!

Below, you can check out the previous Santastein trailer and details on Screambox's December streaming lineup (which also includes Rare Exports), and in case you missed it, feel free to read my Popcorn Frights review of Santastein, which brings Santa Claus back to life with a blood-splattered vengeance!

Santastein synopsis: Max was only six years old when he accidentally burned Santa to a crisp on Christmas Eve. 12 years later, Max attempts to raise Santa from the dead in order to fix his past mistakes and restore the Christmas spirit. But he soon realizes that the creature he has...

Screambox has revealed the new films that are joining the horror streaming service in December, including the goriest film you’ve never seen, Adam Chaplin, as well as the “Frankenstein”-inspired Santastein, body-swap thriller Devils, and classics Dario Argento’s Phenomena and Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive.

Fresh off its Beyond Fest premiere, the extended cut of Adam Chaplin is streaming exclusively on Screambox now! Drawing comparison to The Crow, Fist of the North Star, and Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, the unrated Italian splatterfest is a must-see for gorehounds.

Santa Claus has also come to Screambox in Rare Exports, also now streaming. From Sisu director Jalmari Helander, the Finnish film joins Screambox’s Yuletide Fear collection alongside exclusives like Secret Santa and Night of the Missing and such classics as Black Christmas and Silent Night, Deadly Night 2.

Violent South Korean thriller Devils streams exclusively on Screambox on December 5. It...

More Dario Argento has just arrived on Screambox!

In addition to Deep Red and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Screambox is excited to now stream the new Synapse restoration of Argento’s giallo classic Tenebrae!

In the film…

An American writer in Rome is stalked and harassed by a serial killer who is murdering everyone associated with his work on his latest book.

Tenebrae stars A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s John Saxon with Anthony Franciosa, John Steiner, and Daria Nicolodi.

Also stream the documentary All the Colors of Giallo, featuring Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Barbara Bouchet, Luciano Ercoli, and others.

It’s also Black Friday, which means deals! New Screambox users can save 50% on an annual subscription for the rest of the month by signing up at http://bit.ly/SB50. That’s $29.99 — only $2.50/month — for full access to the Screambox library for a year!

The post ‘Tenebrae...

Stars: Luke Mayronne, Jo-Ann Robinson, Christopher Wesley Moore, David Moncrief, Keni Bounds, Ana-Claire Henley, Meredith Mohler, Derek Robert Hull Bond | Written and Directed by Christopher Wesley Moore

When the Trash Man Knocks is a bit of a rarity. While there are the occasional films like Derelicts and Amityville Thanksgiving, there really aren’t that many films set on the busiest time for travel and family gatherings in the US. Writer/director/star Christopher Wesley Moore hopes to use it to leave his mark on the holiday horror calendar with a mix of psychological horror and bloody slasher stylings.

In 1993 young Crispin Callaway (Luke Mayronne; Triggered) hacked up his father and the student he was having an affair with and stuffed their remains into trash bags. Ten years later, just before he was transferred to a maximum security facility, he escaped. He left a dozen dead bodies in his wake and then seemingly vanished.

Halloween has come and gone but the horror lifestyle continues, and Screambox has a November jam-packed with goodies ranging from the streaming premiere of our theatrical event film Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, the long-awaited 1986 Halloweentime classic Trick or Treat, the cult horror Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout, and much, much more.

Halloween may be over, but rock and roll will never die with Trick or Treat! The ’80s cult classic has made its streaming debut on Screambox with a new 4K restoration by Synapse Films and Red Shirt Pictures.

Shape up with Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout exclusively on Screambox on November 3. The scream queen hosts a deadly exercise video parody with zombies, slashers, and B-movie clips.

Slay bells will ring when Secret Santa streams on Screambox on November 7. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday director Adam Marcus returns to the genre with a holiday...

As an ardent devotee of the written word and an avid connoisseur of cinematic storytelling, I’ve always been enthralled by the experience of witnessing beloved fantasy novels come to life on the screen.

The result is enchanting when ink and imagination merge into a visual symphony. The tales that have captured my heart and imagination have found new dimensions when adapted for television or film.

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From the gallant quests to the fantastical creatures, these adaptations transport us to mystical realms where the unimaginable becomes a reality.

I invite you on a journey through ten epic fantasy series that have undergone a magical transformation from page to screen, immersing us in worlds of wonder, peril, and unparalleled adventure.

A Personal Quest into Enchanted Worlds

Ever since I was introduced to the spellbinding allure of fantasy novels, I’ve been...

After the lackluster reception of Inferno, the second entry in his supernaturally inclined Three Mothers trilogy, Dario Argento pivoted back to the giallo genre that he’d helped put on the world-cinema map with the release of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage back in 1970. Not content to merely “return to form,” and plagued by some personal demons of his own, Argento unleashed the supreme meta-giallo Tenebrae, an endlessly reflexive murder mystery about the solving of murder mysteries.

The notion that Tenebrae is primarily concerned with the conditions of its own making is signaled straight away. The first thing we see is a copy of a book also called Tenebrae. A voiceover narrator declaims a passage that describes murder as a liberating, creative act. What’s more, the scene introduces two of the most elemental bits of giallo iconography: the black gloves worn by the killer and a shiny cutthroat razor.

After helping to pioneer Italy’s budding giallo genre throughout the 1970s with influential titles like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat o’ Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, and Deep Red, Dario Argento took a brief sabbatical from the lurid thrillers to explore supernatural elements in Suspiria and Inferno. When the latter failed at the box office, he made a triumphant return to gialli in 1982 with Tenebrae (sometimes spelled Tenebre; originally released in the US as Unsane).

While his American contemporaries were trying to come up with inventive instruments of death to propel slasher films, Argento was designing more lavish ways to film his kill scenes. Suspiria remains his crowning achievement, but Tenebrae finds the filmmaker bringing his honed visual panache to the giallo sandbox in which he made a name for himself. The result stands not only as one of Argento’s strongest efforts but also a landmark giallo work.

Genre icon Dario Argento is the focus on the documentary Dario Argento Panico, which is having its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival – and with that premiere to take place this Saturday, September 2nd, a trailer for the documentary has arrived online! You can check it out in the embed above.

Directed by Simone Scafidi and produced by Paguro Film, Dario Argento Panico is said to be an immersive deep dive into the creative process and life of Argento. It features exclusive interviews with the legendary filmmaker and insight from other acclaimed directors like Gaspar Noé, Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn about his impact on the horror genre and generations of other directors.

Fiore Argento, Asia Argento, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Lamberto Bava, Luigi Cozzi, Michele Soavi, Claudio Simonetti, Marisa Casale, Cristina Marsillach, Floriana Argento, Franco Ferrini, and of course Dario Argento himself also appear in the documentary.

"Dario Argento is fear!" Italian master of horror / giallo filmmaker Dario Argento finally gets the biopic documentary treatment. Premiering at the 2023 Venice Film Festival underway now in the "Venice Classics" section is Dario Argento Panico (also known as just Panico), a new documentary by filmmaker Simone Scafidi. The first biopic dedicated to Argento. The film zooms in on titular Italian filmmaker Dario Argento as he finishes writing the script for his last feature in a hotel as a film crew shoots a movie about him. "It is an immersive deep dive into the creative process and life of Argento and features exclusive interviews with the legendary filmmaker and insight from other acclaimed directors like Gaspar Noé, Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn about his impact on the horror genre and generations of other directors." Argento is currently 82 years old and continues to make films - Dark Glasses was out last year.

Hey all! John Fallon here aka The Arrow. Our docu-series, Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian: 80’s Horror Memories (binge it here), which thoroughly explores the decade in horror, is now 15 episodes in. We just wrapped 1980, 1981 and 1982 and we are about to go in balls deep into 1983 this coming Monday, August 28 on our JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel.

A series of this ilk doesn’t happen by itself, it takes an army of producers, writers, editors and our sole narrator to make the magic happens. So we thought it would be dandy to get our core staff to share with you their 10 favorite (not best) horror movies from the 80’s. Yes, it was tough on all of us to pick just 10 – but we knocked a few back and did what we could. Scroll down and peep our choices!

John “The Arrow” Fallon (Producer / Ball Breaker)

Tenebrae The Thing Nightmare On Elm Street...

Are you ready to dive into the lurid world of essential Giallo horror movies, filled with garish murders, striking visuals, and twisting plots?

Born in the ’60s and thriving throughout the ’70s, Giallo takes its name from the Italian word for “yellow,” a nod to the cheap, pulpy mystery novels with yellow covers that inspired the genre. Characterized by elaborate set pieces, vivid colors, and convoluted plot twists, Giallo films are as intellectual as they are visceral. Renowned directors like Dario Argento and Mario Bava helped define the genre with their visual flair and innovative storytelling.

So grab your black leather gloves and let’s uncover 13 essential Giallo horror movies that will carve their way into your psyche.

Cineriz 1. Deep Red (1975)

In 1975, Dario Argento’s Deep Red captivated audiences with its masterful blend of suspense and horror. This enigmatic Giallo film tells the gripping story of Marcus Daly, a music...

Tenebrae and Black Circle - Synapse Films Delivers Terrifying Sci-Fi Horror and Dark, Grisly Giallo in September: "On September 5th, acclaimed Spanish horror director Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s Black Circle comes to Blu-ray in an impressive edition that includes its original soundtrack on CD.

When sisters Celeste and Isa play a mysterious vinyl record from the 1970s, neither had any idea what they would unlock. They soon discover that the record, meant to induce calmness, created duplicates of themselves. As their doppelgängers grow in strength their only hope lies in finding the hypnotist who created the recording years ago. Featuring a mesmerizing score by Rickard Gramfors and a haunting performance by Christina Lindberg (Thriller: A Cruel Picture), Black Circle is a film you won’t soon forget.

The Blu-ray edition includes the original motion picture soundtrack on an included CD; an audio commentary with director Adrian Garcia Bogliano; the original...

45 years after its release, Dario Argento‘s Suspiria remains one of the most breathtaking horror films ever committed to celluloid. Its unparalleled visuals – vibrantly colored lighting, unconventional camerawork, opulent production design, extravagant death scenes – are complemented by a memorable score from frequent Argento collaborators, Goblin.

Goblin founding keyboardist Claudio Simonetti now performs with a new manifestation of the prolific Italian instrumental act – officially branded as Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin to avoid confusion with the other incarnation of Goblin featuring different legacy members that remains active concurrently.

Simonetti is accompanied by guitarist Daniele Amador, bassist Cecilia Nappo, and drummer Federico Maragoni. Together they’re celebrating Suspiria‘s 45th anniversary with a tour in which they perform the score live to the film followed by a set of other Goblin classics. I caught the sold-out stop at the Somerville Theatre in Somerville, Ma on November 8.

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The beginning of October marks the midway point of spooky season so let's take a moment to see what the fine folks at Shudder have planned for us next month. Next month's lineup of Shudder Originals includes the lauded films Deadstream and Ressurection. Argento's Dark Glasses, the latest chapter of the horror anthology V/H/S/99, and UK horror She Will will also debut next month. As far as curated programs are concerned the All Hail Argento collection will have a number of the director's films on deck. Opera and The Stendhal Syndrome premiere on October 10, joining titles already on Shudder including Deep Red, Tenebrae, Inferno, Phenomena, Trauma and The Cat o’ Nine Tales along with the...

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Hello, everyone! We’re back after a brief hiatus to give you a look at the horror and sci-fi headed home this week on home media. As it turns out, the month of August’s releases are starting off on a quiet note, as we have two titles getting the 4K treatment this Tuesday—Dario Argento’s Tenebrae and Flatliners from Joel Schumacher—and then a handful of indie horror arriving on both Blu-ray and DVD: Scream at the Devil, Paranormal Devil, The Farm, and Joker’s Poltergeist.

Flatliners 4K

Some Lines Shouldn’T Be Crossed.

Known for his impressively eclectic filmography and for helping to launch the careers of several young Hollywood stars of the 80s and 90s, Joel Schumacher tackles the existential question that, at one time or another, haunts us all: what awaits us after we die?

At the University Hospital School of Medicine, five ambitious students...

“Funny Pages,” a scruffy, grungy, likably tossed-together sketchbook of a low-budget indie comedy, typifies a paradox that now runs through a great deal of independent cinema. The movie, set in a humdrum New Jersey suburbia, unfolds on the moldy bottom rung of the comic-book ladder. It centers on two friends who are obsessed with drawing their own comics, and it’s about the insular world of geeks and creeps and pervs and weirdos that this brings them into contact with.

Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), at 17, has left the posh home of his parents in Princeton and set up residence in downscale Trenton, where he hangs out at the local comic-book store along with his friend, the sweetly passive, long-haired, acne-ridden Miles (Miles Emanuel), who has a secret crush on him. These two eat, breathe, and sleep comic books. But they’re not into superheroes. To them the comic-book world is all...

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FX is wasting little time in solidifying the future of its critically beloved comedy What We Do in the Shadows.

The Disney-backed basic cable network has handed out a two-season renewal for the comedy series inspired by the feature film from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. The pickup, which arrives more than a month before the comedy returns for its fourth season, takes the show through its fifth and sixth seasons.

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Two of Portugal’s most international production houses – SPi, producer of the country’s first Netflix Original series “Gloria,” and Caracol Protagonista – are teaming to co-produce police drama series project “O Último Lobo” (“The Last Wolf”).

The show tells the true story of Franklim Lobo, one of the greatest European drug lords, exploring his rise, and the corruption in the Portuguese police in the late 1990s. Portuguese filmmaker Bruno Gascon, whose credits include “Carga” and “Shadow,” is the writer-director.

The eight-episode series focuses on Castilho, an honest police investigator with a dark past, who sees it as his personal mission to capture Lobo. He discovers during this investigation that what he defends is rotten, and that Portugal’s Judiciary Police – the national criminal investigation police agency – is an accomplice of the greatest Portuguese drug trafficker of all times.

Lobo, who came to be considered the baron of cocaine trafficking in Europe,...

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The Diablo games have no shortage of social features. Not only can players team up to conquer the forces of hell but they can also form and join clans to make it even easier to join parties of in-game friends. Diablo Immortal has yet another addition to that list in the form of factions.

In the new game, players can join one of three factions: Adventurers, Shadows, and Immortals. Each group has their own channels, rewards, and most importantly, membership requirements. Not all factions are created equal, and some are easier to get into than others.

Here’s everything you need to know about the Adventurers, Shadows and Immortals factions and how to join them:

Adventurers

Compared to the other two factions, “Adventurers” sounds like such a generic name.

Dario Argento’s chilling giallo aesthetic kicks off the summer season at Film at Lincoln Center.

IndieWire exclusively announces “Beware of Dario Argento: A 20-Film Retrospective” hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà. The retrospective rolls out from June 17 through 29, and ushers in the third decade of collaboration between Film at Lincoln Center and Italian state-owned film archive Cinecittà, whose main shareholder is the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Argento’s vast catalog of classic films like “Suspiria” and “Inferno,” both part of the “Three Mothers” trilogy, debut new 4K restorations by Cinecittà. Seventeen films are newly restored. The famed director will be in person for select screenings, introducing films and conducting Q&As. The lineup also will host the North American Premiere of “Dark Glasses,” Argento’s first film in 10 years, distributed by Shudder.

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How does one even attempt to sum up the sprawling joys of 2018's "Shadow"? Take the operatic and larger-than-life nature of Shakespeare plays, mix in a little Kurosawa influence ("Kagemusha" in particular would likely pair well with this one), wrap it all in a surprisingly humorous tale about courtly intrigue, add in the fact that it just so happens to feature characters wielding umbrellas that unsheathe into countless serrated blades in one of the coolest weapon reveals you'll ever see, and perhaps that comes at least vaguely close to describing the sweeping drama at the heart of Yimou Zhang's film. A complete and utter tonal shift from...

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A review of the Atlanta Season Three finale, “Tarrare,” coming up just as soon as I ask my friend’s cousin to pee on you…

And here we come to the end of this long-delayed, ambitious, confounding, frequently incredible season of television. Across the last two and a half months, Atlanta has given us four different anthology episodes exploring Black life in America (your mileage will vary on whether this was too many, the perfect amount, or not enough), a locked room mystery, an introspective drug trip with a bonus Liam Neeson cameo,...

Exclusive: Avi Federgreen’s Indiecan Entertainment is launching a genre-focused distribution arm, hot on the heels of releasing Junta Yamaguchi’s time paradox comedy Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes.

Red Water Entertainment will serve as a home for genre cinema from around the world, focused on bringing North American audiences high-quality cinema with no language or regional barriers.

It will work primarily in the horror, science fiction and action genres, but will release films from the vast spectrum that the term ‘genre’ encompasses. “There’s a lot of wonderful genre cinema that never sees the light of day in North America, and I’m excited to help some of these films find the audiences they deserve,” said Federgreen.

Red Water’s launch slate comprises six diverse films that will release late this year. They are Stefano Lodovichi’s The Guest Room (aka The Room; Italy), John Farrelly’s The Sleep...

Dario Argento’S Giallo Masterpiece Tenebrae Comes To North America In A Brand-new 40th Anniversary 4K Limited Uhd Set July 26 From Synapse Films! Italian horror master Dario Argento elevates the giallo genre to new heights with 1982’s Tenebrae, a darkly humorous and notoriously grisly murder-mystery that many consider to be one of his finest works. …

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Dario Argento‘s Tenebrae is sure to look better than ever on 4K Ultra HD, with Arrow Video and Synapse Films joining forces for a brand new release that’s been announced today. Up for pre-order now from both Synapse in the US and Arrow in the UK, the three-disc 4K Uhd/Blu-ray 6,000 piece Limited Edition boxed […]

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Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy winner Kate Winslet and her daughter Mia Threapleton (“Shadows”) will star in a feature-length episode of the third season of Dominic Savage’s acclaimed Channel 4 series “I Am.”

All episodes in the series are named after their lead characters and Winslet’s episode is titled “I Am Ruth.”

Created, written and directed by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Savage, the stories for each episode have been developed in a creative partnership with the leading actors, with semi-improvised dialogue. The series debuted in 2019, with Vicky McClure starring in “I Am Nicola,” Samantha Morton in “I Am Kirsty” and Gemma Chan in “I Am Hannah.” The second season, which bowed in 2021, had Suranne Jones in “I Am Victoria,” Letitia Wright in “I Am Danielle” and Lesley Manville in “I Am Maria.”

Filming on “I Am Ruth” will start at the end of April for three weeks. Other cast will be announced in due course,...

This article contains Sonic the Hedgehog 2 spoilers.

A certain Punxsutawney groundhog may or may not get to see his shadow each February, but it was in April 2022 we all got our first glimpse of Sonic the Hedgehog’s shadow on the big screen. And for Sega fans who came of age during the Dreamcast’s reign, it was glorious.

Following in the footsteps of the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie, which concluded with both a tease of Dr. Robotnik’s imminent return and Tails arriving to Green Hills in search of his blue-hued buddy, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 teases a couple of things in its post-credits scene. If you didn’t stay for them (or would like a breakdown of what it all means), please read on…

The Return of Robotnik?

The post-credits scene begins with the U.S. military cleaning up the aftermath of Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s climax.

Shadowhunters was cut short in its prime.

The Freeform drama was canceled after three seasons, and now, fans can look forward to two of its cast members airing their thoughts on the series.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Katherine McNamara and Dominic Sherwood are reuniting to offer their unfiltered opinions on the biggest developments.

Return to the Shadows is the name of the podcast.

If you watch Shadowhunters online, you know that McNamara and Sherwood played the central couple Clary and Jace on the teen drama.

"Creating and shooting Shadowhunters was such a special, unique, life-shaping experience that truly changed us — personally, professionally, and artistically," McNamara says.

"When approached about the podcast, I thought it seemed like the perfect next step to give back and support this beautiful Shadowfam community."

"So, I reached out to Dom to see if he would join me as we both have always sought out ways to do so.

Welcome back to Let’s Scare Bryan to Death, where this month we’re diving into a heaping helping of giallo. Now, I’ve never been shy about sharing my misgivings with the giallo subgenre. My inability to get over the cognitive dissonance instilled by the wonky dubbing and the convoluted mystery elements usually keep me from truly loving Italian horror’s most famous import. But although I’m too often underwhelmed by the overall product, I find at least something to like about any giallo I watch. So I’m always up for trying a new one, especially if I get a chance to see the great John Saxon wearing a very silly fedora.

With that in mind, I’m very grateful to this month’s guest, Mark O. Estes, as he’s introducing me to Tenebrae, the 1982 offering from giallo maestro Dario Argento. You may know Estes as...

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