Luigi Comenicini’s The Sunday Woman makes for an intriguing blend of police procedural and comedy of manners. It isn’t really a giallo, despite an investigation into a bizarre murder that fuels further misdeeds. As a satire of Turin’s upper classes, it isn’t nearly as trenchant, let alone grim, as other examples of commedia all’italiana like Dino Risi’s Il Sorpasso or Pietro Germi’s Seduced and Abandoned, though it does share their preoccupation with character types that border on the grotesque. Taken on its own terms, the film is absorbing, frequently amusing, and exceedingly well directed by Comencini, who keeps things moving with admirably brisk efficiency.
When sleazy architect Garrone (Claudio Gora) is found beaten to death with a large stone phallus (shades of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange), Commissioner Santamaria (Marcello Mastroianni) takes up the case. A handy clue soon puts him on...
When sleazy architect Garrone (Claudio Gora) is found beaten to death with a large stone phallus (shades of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange), Commissioner Santamaria (Marcello Mastroianni) takes up the case. A handy clue soon puts him on...
- 5/1/2023
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
A new episode of The Arrow in the Head Show has just been released, and in this one our hosts John “The Arrow” Fallon and Lance Vlcek are looking back at a 1977 film that is often named as one of the all-time great horror classics: Dario Argento’s Suspiria (get it Here) and they also debate the remake! Director/Actor Joe Cornet also drops by to talk about his upcoming Giallo inspired film Night of the Caregiver and sexy thriller Kaleidoscope.
To hear Mr. Cornet discuss his films and find out what The Arrow and Lance had to say about Suspiria and its remake, check out the video embedded above.
Directed by Argento from a screenplay he wrote with Daria Nicolodi, inspired by Thomas De Quincey’s Suspiria de Profundis, Suspiria has the following synopsis:
Suzy travels to Germany to attend ballet school. When she arrives, late on a stormy night,...
To hear Mr. Cornet discuss his films and find out what The Arrow and Lance had to say about Suspiria and its remake, check out the video embedded above.
Directed by Argento from a screenplay he wrote with Daria Nicolodi, inspired by Thomas De Quincey’s Suspiria de Profundis, Suspiria has the following synopsis:
Suzy travels to Germany to attend ballet school. When she arrives, late on a stormy night,...
- 11/26/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
From the Oscar-winning Drive My Car to festival favourite Hit the Road, audiences and critics are relishing the recent wave of road movies. Here, Geoff Dyer delves into the roots of the genre
Four directors discuss breathing new life into the road movie
Wherever there is an actual physical journey there is inherent narrative interest. It doesn’t matter whether the journey is on foot through the Australian outback (Walkabout) or in the Antarctic (Scott of the…), on horseback (Lonesome Dove) or covered wagon, by boat, train (Von Ryan’s Express), aircraft or spaceship (take your pick), car, or some permutation of any of the above: Planes, Trains and Automobiles. With jour, journey and journal(ism) sharing the same root, we’re linguistically programmed to follow day-by-day accounts of journeys. Writing in 1849, Thomas De Quincey celebrated the unprecedented “velocity” of English mail coaches that revealed to him, first “the glory of motion: suggesting,...
Four directors discuss breathing new life into the road movie
Wherever there is an actual physical journey there is inherent narrative interest. It doesn’t matter whether the journey is on foot through the Australian outback (Walkabout) or in the Antarctic (Scott of the…), on horseback (Lonesome Dove) or covered wagon, by boat, train (Von Ryan’s Express), aircraft or spaceship (take your pick), car, or some permutation of any of the above: Planes, Trains and Automobiles. With jour, journey and journal(ism) sharing the same root, we’re linguistically programmed to follow day-by-day accounts of journeys. Writing in 1849, Thomas De Quincey celebrated the unprecedented “velocity” of English mail coaches that revealed to him, first “the glory of motion: suggesting,...
- 7/10/2022
- by Geoff Dyer
- The Guardian - Film News
By Todd Garbarini
The year 1976 was a phenomenal time for films that went into production. George Lucas’s space opera, Star Wars began principal photography in March; Steven Spielberg, fresh off the success of Jaws, was given carte blanche to bring Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the screen and began shooting in May; and Dario Argento, who became emboldened by the financial success of his latest and arguably best film to date, Profundo Rosso (known in the U.S. as Deep Red), embarked upon Suspiria, a murder mystery involving a dance school hiding in plain sight while housing a coven of witches, which began filming in July. Horror author Clive Barker once described this supernatural extravaganza as what you would imagine a horror film to be like if you weren’t allowed to see it. I believe that this is a good description of what is unquestionably one of the most frightening,...
The year 1976 was a phenomenal time for films that went into production. George Lucas’s space opera, Star Wars began principal photography in March; Steven Spielberg, fresh off the success of Jaws, was given carte blanche to bring Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the screen and began shooting in May; and Dario Argento, who became emboldened by the financial success of his latest and arguably best film to date, Profundo Rosso (known in the U.S. as Deep Red), embarked upon Suspiria, a murder mystery involving a dance school hiding in plain sight while housing a coven of witches, which began filming in July. Horror author Clive Barker once described this supernatural extravaganza as what you would imagine a horror film to be like if you weren’t allowed to see it. I believe that this is a good description of what is unquestionably one of the most frightening,...
- 7/9/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
This grandiose remake of Dario Argento’s dreamy 1977 masterpiece conjures up all the right witchy ingredients but lacks the original’s joyful abandon
Dario Argento’s dazzling 1977 chiller Suspiria first opened in the UK in a censoriously truncated version, having suffered significant cuts to blunt its extremities. Horror fans were appalled and sought out more complete versions of the film, videotapes of which were promptly confiscated during the “video nasties” hysteria of the early 80s. How things have changed! Today, Luca Guadagnino’s grandiose Suspiria remake can sail into British cinemas with all its bone-cracking, skin-slicing, blood-letting intact – a cause for rejoicing, no doubt. Yet watching this sporadically sparkling yet weirdly saggy “cover version” of Argento’s biggest international hit, I couldn’t help wishing that someone had been there with the scissors to trim the film of its indulgences – not the violence, but the verbosity.
Set in “divided Berlin...
Dario Argento’s dazzling 1977 chiller Suspiria first opened in the UK in a censoriously truncated version, having suffered significant cuts to blunt its extremities. Horror fans were appalled and sought out more complete versions of the film, videotapes of which were promptly confiscated during the “video nasties” hysteria of the early 80s. How things have changed! Today, Luca Guadagnino’s grandiose Suspiria remake can sail into British cinemas with all its bone-cracking, skin-slicing, blood-letting intact – a cause for rejoicing, no doubt. Yet watching this sporadically sparkling yet weirdly saggy “cover version” of Argento’s biggest international hit, I couldn’t help wishing that someone had been there with the scissors to trim the film of its indulgences – not the violence, but the verbosity.
Set in “divided Berlin...
- 11/18/2018
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria is now in U.S. cinemas and opens in the U.K. on November 16, 2018.Luca Guadagnino was a 10-year-old student at summer camp when he became transfixed by the poster advertising Dario Argento’s Suspiria, excitedly drawing versions of the key iconic bloodied ballerina image in his school notebook. But it wasn’t until he was 13, after seeing the actual movie broadcast on Italian television, that he knew for certain the terrifying tableaux of fantasy, fascination and fear would somehow feature in his future. And now the Oscar-nominated director has fulfilled his obsessive childhood dream of repurposing the cult shocker that so scarred his psyche in those formative years.But that has been the potent legacy of the original Suspiria for an entire generation of horror aficionados ever since it was released to huge global acclaim and box-office success to become continually listed as one of...
- 11/12/2018
- MUBI
Tony Sokol Nov 5, 2018
An alchemical breakdown of the Suspiria's Three Mothers reveals an opiate of faith.
I don't know what price I'm going to have to pay for breaking what we alchemists call Silentium, but E. Varelli already imposed this knowledge on laymen in "The Three Mothers." The book opens the second of Dario Argento's giallo horror film trilogy about these three ancient witches, Inferno. Made in 1980, it followed Argento's surrealistic masterpiece Suspiria, the remake of which hit theaters this past weekend. The plot line of the Three Mothers is featured heavily in Luca Guadagnino's art-house take on Suspiria, but you won't be getting any spoilers for the new version here.
This will lead many on a journey to discovery of the three ladies who rule the world through sorrow, tears and darkness. They happen to have three homes: one in Rome, where the third of the trilogy,...
An alchemical breakdown of the Suspiria's Three Mothers reveals an opiate of faith.
I don't know what price I'm going to have to pay for breaking what we alchemists call Silentium, but E. Varelli already imposed this knowledge on laymen in "The Three Mothers." The book opens the second of Dario Argento's giallo horror film trilogy about these three ancient witches, Inferno. Made in 1980, it followed Argento's surrealistic masterpiece Suspiria, the remake of which hit theaters this past weekend. The plot line of the Three Mothers is featured heavily in Luca Guadagnino's art-house take on Suspiria, but you won't be getting any spoilers for the new version here.
This will lead many on a journey to discovery of the three ladies who rule the world through sorrow, tears and darkness. They happen to have three homes: one in Rome, where the third of the trilogy,...
- 11/5/2018
- Den of Geek
David Crow Nov 1, 2018
We delve into the three levels of madness explored by the Suspiria remake's shocking ending. Spoilers abound...
This article contains Major Suspiria spoilers. Be warned.
That escalated quickly. One moment, the matrons of the Markos Dance Academy are celebrating the talent of their new star, Susie Bannion, and the next their attempted ritualistic sacrifice backfires in a visual orgy of blood and cacophonic disaster. When the smoke finally lifts, and the actual gore and dancing stops, the only thing that’s clear is Susie Bannion is the actual Mother Suspiriom reincarnated. And the dance academy is hers.
But what is this about, and how did it come about? In essence, the ending seems to act on several levels: the metaphysical; the intersectional; and the vaguely historical. On the first count, the ending, like much else in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake, is a major departure from how...
We delve into the three levels of madness explored by the Suspiria remake's shocking ending. Spoilers abound...
This article contains Major Suspiria spoilers. Be warned.
That escalated quickly. One moment, the matrons of the Markos Dance Academy are celebrating the talent of their new star, Susie Bannion, and the next their attempted ritualistic sacrifice backfires in a visual orgy of blood and cacophonic disaster. When the smoke finally lifts, and the actual gore and dancing stops, the only thing that’s clear is Susie Bannion is the actual Mother Suspiriom reincarnated. And the dance academy is hers.
But what is this about, and how did it come about? In essence, the ending seems to act on several levels: the metaphysical; the intersectional; and the vaguely historical. On the first count, the ending, like much else in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake, is a major departure from how...
- 10/26/2018
- Den of Geek
Watch the teaser trailer for Suspiria, with a score composed by legendary singer/songwriter Thom Yorke (Radiohead).
Directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by David Kajganich, Suspiria stars Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Lutz Ebersdorf, Jessica Harper and Chloë Grace Moretz.
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director (Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf). Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
The 1977 version was nominated for two Saturn Awards: Best Supporting Actress for Bennett in 1978, and Best DVD Classic Film Release in 2002. It has become a cult classic, and is recognized as an influential film in the horror genre. The Italian supernatural horror film was directed by Dario Argento, co-written by Argento and Daria Nicolodi, and was partially based on Thomas De Quincey’s 1845 essay Suspiria de...
Directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by David Kajganich, Suspiria stars Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Lutz Ebersdorf, Jessica Harper and Chloë Grace Moretz.
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director (Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf). Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
The 1977 version was nominated for two Saturn Awards: Best Supporting Actress for Bennett in 1978, and Best DVD Classic Film Release in 2002. It has become a cult classic, and is recognized as an influential film in the horror genre. The Italian supernatural horror film was directed by Dario Argento, co-written by Argento and Daria Nicolodi, and was partially based on Thomas De Quincey’s 1845 essay Suspiria de...
- 6/4/2018
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Suspiria was an Italian horror movie that came out in the late 1970s. Given its name, it should come as no surprise to learn that it was based on Suspiria de Profundis, which was a collection of short essays written by an English essayist named Thomas De Quincey in 1845. Regardless, it is interesting to note that Suspiria was both a critical and a commercial success, with the result that it has become a cult classic that continues to exert influence over the horror movies of the present. For those who are unfamiliar with Suspiria, it is focused on an
What Can We Expect from the Upcoming “Suspiria” Remake?...
What Can We Expect from the Upcoming “Suspiria” Remake?...
- 10/26/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Bill Nighy’s detective leads a fine cast in this deliciously atmospheric adaptation of Peter Ackroyd’s Victorian murder mystery
All the world’s a bloody stage in this gothic Victorian East End melodrama, splendidly adapted from a 1994 novel by Peter Ackroyd. A tale of theatrical murder drenched in the rich hues of classic-period Hammer, this gaslit treat sets Bill Nighy’s Scotland Yard detective on the trail of a grisly killer in 1880s London. Swinging between the ghoulish gaiety of the music hall and the grim stench of the morgue, the second feature from Insensibles/Painless director Juan Carlos Medina is a deliciously subversive affair, nimbly adapted by super-sharp screenwriter Jane Goldman and vivaciously played by an impressive ensemble cast.
“Let us begin, my friends, at the end,” drawls our host, drawing back the curtain on a city terrorised by a killer named after a beast from Jewish folklore.
All the world’s a bloody stage in this gothic Victorian East End melodrama, splendidly adapted from a 1994 novel by Peter Ackroyd. A tale of theatrical murder drenched in the rich hues of classic-period Hammer, this gaslit treat sets Bill Nighy’s Scotland Yard detective on the trail of a grisly killer in 1880s London. Swinging between the ghoulish gaiety of the music hall and the grim stench of the morgue, the second feature from Insensibles/Painless director Juan Carlos Medina is a deliciously subversive affair, nimbly adapted by super-sharp screenwriter Jane Goldman and vivaciously played by an impressive ensemble cast.
“Let us begin, my friends, at the end,” drawls our host, drawing back the curtain on a city terrorised by a killer named after a beast from Jewish folklore.
- 9/3/2017
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ "Shall we do this Whitechapel-style, then?" Doom-Head (Richard Brake) asks, rhetorically, to final girl Charly (Sheri Moon Zombie), in the penultimate scene of 31, the latest offering from Rob Zombie, a director whose films are the very definition of marmite cinema. Some might find Doom-Head's line dripping in misogyny - given he is about ready to carve up an unarmed and thoroughly exhausted Charly - but that would be a misinterpretation. The dialogue is more self-reflective, perhaps to be taken as a horror filmmaker's cri de gore. It's also an aesthetic philosophy harking back not only to Jack the Ripper's most infamously brutal murders, but to Thomas De Quincey's observation that murder is art.
- 9/23/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Here we are at what is a surprisingly modern list. At the beginning of this, I didn’t expect to see so much cultural impact coming from films so recently made, but that’s the way it goes. The films that define the horror genre aren’t necessarily the scariest or the most expensive or even the best. The films that define the genre point to a movement – movies that changed the game and influenced all the films after it. Movies that transcend the horror genre. Movies that broke the mold and changed the way horror can be created.
10. El laberinto del fauno (2006)
English Language Title: Pan’s Labyrinth
Directed by: Gullermo del Toro
It’s more a dark fantasy film than a horror film, but it would be tough to make a list of 50 of those. Plus, it has enough graphic, nightmarish images to push it over the threshold.
10. El laberinto del fauno (2006)
English Language Title: Pan’s Labyrinth
Directed by: Gullermo del Toro
It’s more a dark fantasy film than a horror film, but it would be tough to make a list of 50 of those. Plus, it has enough graphic, nightmarish images to push it over the threshold.
- 10/24/2015
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
Another American Horror Story alumnus has checked into the upcoming season of FX's enduring horror anthology series, a Suspiria-inspired TV series is in the works, and Dane DeHaan and Mia Goth will play the lead roles in A Cure for Wellness, Gore Verbinsk's return to horror.
American Horror Story: Hotel: Showrunner Ryan Murphy revealed via Twitter today that Kathy Bates will be "running the Hotel" in FX's American Horror Story: Hotel, the fifth chapter of the horror anthology series. Bates is no stranger to Murphy's show, having played Marie Delphine Lalaurie in American Horror Story: Coven and Ethel Darling in American Horror Story: Freak Show.
Bates joins a cast that includes Lady Gaga, Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson, Wes Bentley, and Chloë Sevigny. American Horror Story: Hotel is expected to debut this fall, and it will be the first season without the phenomenal Jessica Lange in the cast.
American Horror Story: Hotel: Showrunner Ryan Murphy revealed via Twitter today that Kathy Bates will be "running the Hotel" in FX's American Horror Story: Hotel, the fifth chapter of the horror anthology series. Bates is no stranger to Murphy's show, having played Marie Delphine Lalaurie in American Horror Story: Coven and Ethel Darling in American Horror Story: Freak Show.
Bates joins a cast that includes Lady Gaga, Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson, Wes Bentley, and Chloë Sevigny. American Horror Story: Hotel is expected to debut this fall, and it will be the first season without the phenomenal Jessica Lange in the cast.
- 4/8/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In a watershed deal for the Italian television industry, two production companies have inked a development and production pact to turn the spaghetti western "Django" and the Dario Argento-directed occult horror film "Suspiria" into international TV series. French television producer Atlantique Productions and top Italian indie production company Cattleya will first re-imagine Sergio Corbucci's 1966 western — which of course spawned Quentin Tarantino's own homage, the slave revenge western "Django Unchained," along with a bevy of sequels and spinoffs— "with the grit and edginess of modern television dramas," per a press release. The overseas producers will then jump into the "smart horror" parade with "Suspiria De Profundis," from the 19th century Thomas De Quincey novel that influenced Dario Argento's stylish, seminal 1977 giallo horror. Though directors, showrunners and casts have yet to be unveiled, Argento will serve as...
- 4/8/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Sorry, Quentin Tarantino fans, but the characters from Django Unchained are not headed for our telly boxes any time soon, at least outside of the movie showing on Netflix etc. Still, a French TV company wants to turn the idea of the 1966 inspiration for Qt’s film and a version of Dario Argento’s Suspiria into TV series.Django would reimagine Sergio Corbucci's cult 1960s Western, which helped turn Franco Nero into an icon and saw the coffin-dragging gunslinger take on a bandit chief. The concept was potent enough to spawn sequels, spin-offs and homages, which included Tarantino’s 2012 effort. It will be an English-language show with plans for an initial season of 12 episodes running 50 minutes each and, if successful, multiple follow-ups.There’s a similar hope for Suspiria, which would transform 19th century writer Thomas De Quincey’s Suspiria De Profundis into a series, working from the same...
- 4/8/2015
- EmpireOnline
As television becomes the home for horror revamps, the long-developing new iteration of Dario Argento’s classic Suspiria has transitioned to a series; one set at the turn of the 20th Century. Screen Daily reports Argento will serve as artistic supervisor on Suspiria de Profundis, a series rooted in his own film’s inspiration: Thomas De Quincey’s…
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- 4/8/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
TV series adaptations of both the Dario Argento supernatural classic "Suspiria" and Sergio Corbucci's cult 1966 western "Django" are reportedly in development over at France's Atlantique Productions and Italy's Cattleya.
Both shows would be English-language and score an initial season of twelve hour-long episodes with potential follow-up seasons.
"Django" is described as a re-imagining of the story of first film, about a coffin-dragging gunslinger’s feud with a bandit chief. That film spawned numerous sequels and homages including Tarantino's "Django Unchained".
"Suspiria De Profundis" will be a new adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's novel of the same name which inspired Argento's 1977 masterpiece. Argento himself will serve as the series' artistic supervisor.
Whilst Argento's film was psychadelic supernatural tale set in a remote Bavarian dance academy which turns out to be a coven, the new series will be set in London and Rome at the turn of the 20th century...
Both shows would be English-language and score an initial season of twelve hour-long episodes with potential follow-up seasons.
"Django" is described as a re-imagining of the story of first film, about a coffin-dragging gunslinger’s feud with a bandit chief. That film spawned numerous sequels and homages including Tarantino's "Django Unchained".
"Suspiria De Profundis" will be a new adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's novel of the same name which inspired Argento's 1977 masterpiece. Argento himself will serve as the series' artistic supervisor.
Whilst Argento's film was psychadelic supernatural tale set in a remote Bavarian dance academy which turns out to be a coven, the new series will be set in London and Rome at the turn of the 20th century...
- 4/8/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
France’s Atlantique Productions and Italy’s Cattleya enter into two-title co-development and production deal
French drama producer Atlantique Productions and Italian outfit Cattleya have secured a co-development and co-production agreement to turn 1960s Western Django and Dario Argento’s Suspiria into TV series.
The first, Django, will be a re-imagining of the cult 1966 Western. Atlantique Productions acquired the rights to develop and produce an English-language television series based on Sergio Corbucci’s iconic Western.
The film, which made a star out of Franco Nero, was the story of a coffin-dragging gunslinger’s feud with a bandit chief. It has spawned sequels and homages, most notably Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 blockbuster Django Unchained.
The second, Suspiria De Profundis, is inspired by the 19th century English writer Thomas De Quincey’s eponymous book, which was made into the classic Italian horror film Suspiria in 1977 by Dario Argento. Argento will serve as the series’ artistic supervisor.
Suspiria De Profundis...
French drama producer Atlantique Productions and Italian outfit Cattleya have secured a co-development and co-production agreement to turn 1960s Western Django and Dario Argento’s Suspiria into TV series.
The first, Django, will be a re-imagining of the cult 1966 Western. Atlantique Productions acquired the rights to develop and produce an English-language television series based on Sergio Corbucci’s iconic Western.
The film, which made a star out of Franco Nero, was the story of a coffin-dragging gunslinger’s feud with a bandit chief. It has spawned sequels and homages, most notably Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 blockbuster Django Unchained.
The second, Suspiria De Profundis, is inspired by the 19th century English writer Thomas De Quincey’s eponymous book, which was made into the classic Italian horror film Suspiria in 1977 by Dario Argento. Argento will serve as the series’ artistic supervisor.
Suspiria De Profundis...
- 4/8/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
France’s Atlantique Productions and Italy’s Cattleya enter into two-title co-development and production deal
French drama producer Atlantique Productions and Italian outfit Cattleya have secured a co-development and co-production agreement to turn 1960s Western Django and Dario Argento’s Suspiria into TV series.
The first, Django, will be a re-imagining of the cult 1966 Western. Atlantique Productions acquired the rights to develop and produce an English-language television series based on Sergio Corbucci’s iconic Western.
The film, which made a star out of Franco Nero, was the story of a coffin-dragging gunslinger’s feud with a bandit chief. It has spawned sequels and homages, most notably Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 blockbuster Django Unchained.
The second, Suspiria De Profundis, is inspired by the 19th century English writer Thomas De Quincey’s eponymous book, which was made into the classic Italian horror film Suspiria in 1977 by Dario Argento. Argento will serve as the series’ artistic supervisor.
Suspiria De Profundis...
French drama producer Atlantique Productions and Italian outfit Cattleya have secured a co-development and co-production agreement to turn 1960s Western Django and Dario Argento’s Suspiria into TV series.
The first, Django, will be a re-imagining of the cult 1966 Western. Atlantique Productions acquired the rights to develop and produce an English-language television series based on Sergio Corbucci’s iconic Western.
The film, which made a star out of Franco Nero, was the story of a coffin-dragging gunslinger’s feud with a bandit chief. It has spawned sequels and homages, most notably Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 blockbuster Django Unchained.
The second, Suspiria De Profundis, is inspired by the 19th century English writer Thomas De Quincey’s eponymous book, which was made into the classic Italian horror film Suspiria in 1977 by Dario Argento. Argento will serve as the series’ artistic supervisor.
Suspiria De Profundis...
- 4/8/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
France’s Atlantique Productions and Italy’s Cattleya have entered a co-development and co-production agreement to fashion English-language drama series out of Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 Western Django and Thomas De Quincey’s 1845 psychological fantasy essays Suspiria De Profundis. Django, to which Quentin Tarantino paid homage in his 2012 Oscar-winning Django Unchained, is positioned as a re-imagining of Corbucci’s classic about a coffin-dragging gunslinger's feud with a…...
- 4/8/2015
- Deadline TV
Suspiria
Directed by Dario Argento
Written by Daria Nicolodi and Dario Argento
1977, Italy
“And her eyes, if they were ever seen, would be neither sweet nor subtle; no man could read their story; they would be found filled with perishing dreams, and with wrecks of forgotten delirium.” — Thomas De Quincey, “Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow”
Suzy manages to hail a cab after arriving in Munich, rain pouring down like the gods are dumping giant buckets of it onto her. It sounds like the apocalypse is happening all around, not least because of Goblin’s typically menacing score, which we are hearing for the first time. A McDonald’s visible in the distance, she pushes her way through the rain in order to yell down a cab and get inside (after the driver refuses to come outside and get her bags). She wipes herself off, reds and blues washing over her and the car.
Directed by Dario Argento
Written by Daria Nicolodi and Dario Argento
1977, Italy
“And her eyes, if they were ever seen, would be neither sweet nor subtle; no man could read their story; they would be found filled with perishing dreams, and with wrecks of forgotten delirium.” — Thomas De Quincey, “Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow”
Suzy manages to hail a cab after arriving in Munich, rain pouring down like the gods are dumping giant buckets of it onto her. It sounds like the apocalypse is happening all around, not least because of Goblin’s typically menacing score, which we are hearing for the first time. A McDonald’s visible in the distance, she pushes her way through the rain in order to yell down a cab and get inside (after the driver refuses to come outside and get her bags). She wipes herself off, reds and blues washing over her and the car.
- 10/1/2014
- by Jake Pitre
- SoundOnSight
Here we are at what is a surprisingly modern list. At the beginning of this, I didn’t expect to see so much cultural impact coming from films so recently made, but that’s the way it goes. The films that define the horror genre aren’t necessarily the scariest or the most expensive or even the best. The films that define the genre point to a movement – movies that changed the game and influenced all the films after it. Movies that transcend the horror genre. Movies that broke the mold and changed the way horror can be created.
10. El laberinto del fauno (2006)
English Language Title: Pan’s Labyrinth
Directed by: Gullermo del Toro
It’s more a dark fantasy film than a horror film, but it would be tough to make a list of 50 of those. Plus, it has enough graphic, nightmarish images to push it over the threshold.
10. El laberinto del fauno (2006)
English Language Title: Pan’s Labyrinth
Directed by: Gullermo del Toro
It’s more a dark fantasy film than a horror film, but it would be tough to make a list of 50 of those. Plus, it has enough graphic, nightmarish images to push it over the threshold.
- 8/10/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
It wrecks lives – but it has also inspired art from the poetry of Baudelaire to the music of Lou Reed. In Paris and Berlin, Andrew Hussey traces the path of heroin through modern culture
One of the easiest places to find heroin in Paris is in the streets in and around the Gare du Nord, a stone's throw away from the Eurostar terminal. I know about this place partly because I live in Paris and I am a frequent Eurostar traveller, and partly because this is where Google sent me when I typed in the request "Where to find heroin in Paris". Apparently the most popular spot for dealing is the rue Ambroise-Paré which contains a series of entrances to underground car parks where users can shoot up in relative privacy. The place permanently stinks of piss and is under constant police surveillance, as dealers and clients scurry back and forth between their hiding places.
One of the easiest places to find heroin in Paris is in the streets in and around the Gare du Nord, a stone's throw away from the Eurostar terminal. I know about this place partly because I live in Paris and I am a frequent Eurostar traveller, and partly because this is where Google sent me when I typed in the request "Where to find heroin in Paris". Apparently the most popular spot for dealing is the rue Ambroise-Paré which contains a series of entrances to underground car parks where users can shoot up in relative privacy. The place permanently stinks of piss and is under constant police surveillance, as dealers and clients scurry back and forth between their hiding places.
- 12/22/2013
- by Andrew Hussey
- The Guardian - Film News
As a movie producer, Albert Zugsmith was a major player in Hollywood in the 40′s and 50′s working alongside his friend Howard Hughes for Rko, then moving to Universal where his credits included The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and Orson Welle’s Touch Of Evil (1958). His less stellar directorial efforts from later in his career were sheer exploitation madness with such gems as Sex Kittens Go To College (1960 – with Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld, and Vampira!), Private Lives Of Adam And Eve (also 1960 with Van Doren, Weld, and June Wilkinson!) and Fanny Hill which he co-directed with Russ Meyer in Germany in 1964 (sensing a pattern here?). Confessions Of An Opium Eater (1962) was his most unusual and artful film as director, a tawdry mix of Asian stereotypes and sleaze that no one should mistake for great art -but one that makes for fascinating viewing. It’s a real oddity; meditative, eerie, and...
- 3/24/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
By Bryan Ditolvo
When it comes to women in horror, most every fan knows about Debra Hill. She co-wrote Halloween with John Carpenter and helped him churn out a few more classics, including The Fog. Hill is a big deal in the genre, and rightfully so, but how come nobody ever mentions Daria Nicolodi? Do you even know that name? Did you know that she's responsible for two of the best horror films ever created?...
Nicolodi was Dario Argento's girlfriend, and the mother of bombshell/writer/director Asia Argento. Daria (such similar first names) starred in Mario Bava's Shock, and the classic Argento giallo Deep Red.
Oh yeah, and she also co-wrote Susperia. Arguably the best film of any genre, Susperia is based on the life of Nicolodi's grandmother, who attended a music school only to discover that the instructors were avid practitioners of black magic. Sadly, the...
When it comes to women in horror, most every fan knows about Debra Hill. She co-wrote Halloween with John Carpenter and helped him churn out a few more classics, including The Fog. Hill is a big deal in the genre, and rightfully so, but how come nobody ever mentions Daria Nicolodi? Do you even know that name? Did you know that she's responsible for two of the best horror films ever created?...
Nicolodi was Dario Argento's girlfriend, and the mother of bombshell/writer/director Asia Argento. Daria (such similar first names) starred in Mario Bava's Shock, and the classic Argento giallo Deep Red.
Oh yeah, and she also co-wrote Susperia. Arguably the best film of any genre, Susperia is based on the life of Nicolodi's grandmother, who attended a music school only to discover that the instructors were avid practitioners of black magic. Sadly, the...
- 6/8/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Horror fans across the UK, rejoice! A brand new release of Dario Argento’s classic supernatural masterpiece Suspiria will be hitting shelves across the pond on DVD and Blu-ray this January, courtesy of the folks at Nouveaux Pictures/Cine-Excess.
From the Press Release
Dario Argento's horror classic Suspiria comes to DVD and, for the first time ever, Blu-ray in January 2010, having undergone a brand new high definition transfer courtesy of Nouveaux Pictures and Cine-Excess. Digitally remastered from HD, this brand new presentation has already led critics to claim, "Suspiria has never looked better; it has never sounded as good, either" (John Millar, Film Critic, Sunday Mail) and to hail it as "a stunning makeover for one of the greatest horror films ever made" (David Edwards, Daily Mirror).
Both formats also come with a host of newly commissioned extras including a brand new documentary featuring director Dario Argento and composer...
From the Press Release
Dario Argento's horror classic Suspiria comes to DVD and, for the first time ever, Blu-ray in January 2010, having undergone a brand new high definition transfer courtesy of Nouveaux Pictures and Cine-Excess. Digitally remastered from HD, this brand new presentation has already led critics to claim, "Suspiria has never looked better; it has never sounded as good, either" (John Millar, Film Critic, Sunday Mail) and to hail it as "a stunning makeover for one of the greatest horror films ever made" (David Edwards, Daily Mirror).
Both formats also come with a host of newly commissioned extras including a brand new documentary featuring director Dario Argento and composer...
- 12/3/2009
- by Pestilence
- DreadCentral.com
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