Tenebre/Deep Red: Dario Argento Collection Volume 3 - DVD Review at January 24, 2002 - Over the past few months we've covered a lot of Dario Argento movies. We're wrapping up our coverage of this director with Volume 3: Tenebre/Deep Red, of the Dario Argento collection. If this is the first time you've come across Arge - dvd.ign.com
Maitland McDonagh[6] wrote about Argento in Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento (1991). Argento is also mentioned in Art of Darkness, a collection of promotional stills, poster art and critical essays edited by Chris Gallant. British journalist Alan Jones published Profondo Argento, a compendium of set reports, interviews and biographical detail. A recent book by James Gracey, simply titled Dario Argento, provides fresh critical analysis and an exploration of Argento's far-reaching impact on modern horror cinema and popular culture.[7] English sound designer, writer and musician Heather Emmett published Sounds to Die For:Speaking the Language of Horror Film Sound, isbn 9780956302014, which includes the first in-depth study of the use of sound in Argento's films.[8]
DVD has been the quintessential blessing and curse for Dario Argento. On the one hand it got his films out of the edited-VHS hell and into the glory of uncut horror. But on the other, many of his films were released on DVD before things like anamorphic transfers became staples. So while many of his films have received good initial treatment on DVD (Suspiria comes to mind), others like Phenomena were released without anamorphic transfers (and subsequently went out of print). Considering how much Argento's reputation has been bolstered by DVD in the last decade, it's fitting that Anchor Bay should re-release these five films in a budget package for those looking to fill out their giallo collection.
This new collection of creepiness from Anchor Bay contains five more-recent films from the Italian Master of Suspense , Dario Argento. There's nothing from his heyday decade (the 70s), but a few of his more bizarre and gory works (1982's Tenebrae, '85s Phenomena, and'93's Trauma) find their way into the impressive package along with his more mainstream suspensers (The Card Player from 2004, and Do You Like Hitchcock? from 2005).
