Directed by Dario Argento

Bathed in electric color, bursting with kaleidoscopic set pieces, and dripping with blood, the thrillers of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento are vivid excursions into baroque excess and dreamlike abstraction. Setting a new benchmark for the giallo murder mystery—complete with black-gloved killers, intricately staged violence, and psychosexual delirium—with THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE and THE CAT O’ NINE TAILS, Argento continued to push his style into increasingly surreal realms with masterpieces like the supernatural tour de force INFERNO and the self-reflexive giallo deconstruction TENEBRAE.