Dario Argento's Films - Ranked From Worst To Best
Do you like Argento?
Dario Argento, arguably Italy's finest ever horror director (and one of the best horror directors ever for that matter), turned 75-years-old on Monday 7th September, 2015. When I became aware of this milestone, it got me thinking about Argento and his films. Almost immediately after came the news that the much talked about Suspiria remake is going ahead, with Luca Guadagnino in the director's chair. Argento is an auteur, a man who has developed a visual style all of his own, works outside of the studio system (his films were routinely financed by his father Salvatore, before his 1987 death) and who writes everything that he directs. He directed his first featured in 1970 and has released films every decades since then. Invariably, some have been better than others. While Argento might have been the brains behind one or two masterpieces, he's also been responsible for some cinematic atrocities, too. The general feeling with Argento is that he had a magnificent run in the seventies and into the early eighties but something went drastically wrong in the late 80s, leading to a painful and drawn-out decline. But to what extent is that actually true? Are Argento's more recent films really as bad as his critics (and a significant amount of his fans) say they are? Are his seventies thrillers as good as those same people claim? And why now, after all these years, is Suspiria getting the remake treatment? Here are Dario Argento's 19 feature films, ranked from worst to best.