Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940 in Rome, Italy. He is the first born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for film making from his close knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other family members including an aunt who told him frightening bedtime stories. Argento based most of his thriller movies on childhood trauma, yet his own, according to him, was a normal one. Along with tales spun by his aunt, Argento was impressed by stories from The Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, and Edgar Allan Poe. Argento started his career writing for various film journal magazines while still in his teens attending a Catholic high school. After graduation, instead of going to college, Argento took a job as a columnist for the Rome daily newspaper “Paese Sera”. Inspired by the movies, Argento later found work as a screenwriter and wrote several screenplays for a number of films, but the most important were his Western collaborations, which included The Rope and the Colt (1969), and the Sergio Leone masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). After its release Argento wrote and directed his first movie, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), a loose adoption on Frederick Brown’s novel “The Screaming Mimi”, which was made for his father’s film company. Argento wanted to direct the movie himself because he did not want any other director messing up with the production and his screenplay.

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REVIEWS for Deep Red (1975)
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REVIEWS for Tenebre (1982)
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REVIEWS for Phenomena (1985)
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REVIEWS for Suspiria (1977)
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The 1,000 Movie Journey
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REVIEWS for Inferno (1980)
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REVIEWS for Mother of Tears (2007)
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REVIEWS for Masters of Horror: Jenifer
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REVIEWS for The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970)
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REVIEWS for The Cat o’ Nine Tails (1971)
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REVIEWS for Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
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REVIEWS for “The Animal Trilogy”
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REVIEW for Opera (1987)
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