I’d come close to agreeing, but I found
Inferno to be an incomprehensible mess, with some embarrassingly cheesy moments (like the bit where the woman is “attacked” by cats that are clearly flung at her by stagehands just out of camera range). There’s a little of that in
Suspiria too, but rather less so. It’s clearly an exercise in style over substance, but my word, what style! He was clearly becoming more interested in esoteric, supernatural-based stories, with PR his last “conventional” giallo film. I liked
Phenomena, where I thought the cheesiness worked for the storyline, by that point I felt that Argento embraced the absurdity and just ran with it. Spoiler in gray text:
the scene with the knife-wielding chimp? How can you not laugh at that?
Still have yet to see any of his very early films (I have seen a little of
Four Flies on Grey Velvet), but I do like Ennio Morricone’s soundtracks to those films. He was, of course, one of the greats, but he sure scored lots of crappy films. I recently watched
Windows with Elizabeth Ashley and Talia Shire; what a piece of shit that was! Gordon Willis proved himself in his lone film as director, but as much as they tried to polish this turd to a high gloss, there’s only so much you can do with one of the
worst scripts in movie history!
You should at least see
Love Crimes, one of those “so bad it’s hilarious” films (see also:
Scissors starring Sharon Stone, from around the same time).
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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
"Siento que debemos saber para el sueño de quién brillará esta luz
o consagrar una propia estrella" --Alberto Felici
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