Dario Argento movies
 

they are all good but too slow....what am i missing out on.....suspiria is supposedly one of the greatest horror movies of all time,,,,,however i was bored up until the end which lasted maybe 5 minutes????

The bird with the crysal plumage gave me the same opinion

i understand the dramatic buildups (along with the 70's/early 80's timeframes and how they may have been groundbreakig considering....) but what makes them so special? can anyone shed light??? seriously i see the articulate notions but just dont get why they are supposedly so great....

is it because im a "yunggin"?

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FWIW I thought suspiria blew also, and I was told the same (about it being a really great horror movie)

haven't seen anything else. we are no doubt an incredibly overstimulated generation, and find it hard to watch some of the slower moving movies of yore, but even still this movie was not good.

perhaps i'm showing my ignorance

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Dario specialises in 2 types of film - standard horror (Suspiria, Inferno), and 'giallo' (thriller/horror hybrids that are named after the Italian word for 'yellow' in reference to the colour of the pages that the pulp giallo detective novels used to be printed on).

I really recommend you try and get your hands on one of these giallo movies instead (Tenebrae or Deep Red/Profondo Rosso is a great starting point). They're kinda disjointed and invariably cheesy, but overall are imho way better films than his straight horror flicks. Last I checked, someone had uploaded Profondo Rosso in its entirety onto youtube.

Bird with the crystal plumage is technically a giallo btw, but nowhere near as accomplished as the two titles I gave you above.

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Because horror has come so far in the last few decades toward the pure gross-out or now torture porn, it's hard to even know what someone's talking about anymore when he talks about whether a horror flick is any good and what's good about it.

I didn't care for Suspiria when I saw it a long time ago, either, though. I'm not sure it would classify as great to any substantial cross-segment of the populace either today or when it came out.

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The Cardplayer might be the worst movie I have ever seen in my life.

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Yea, that was especially [censored]. He kinda lost the plot since about 1987 onwards.