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Film Details
109 min / 2.35:1
English Stereo
Bonus Materials
Bonus Materials
Cast and Creators
Dario Argento
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About the Film
Aura and journalist David Parsons investigate a series of murders after her parents become victims of a killer known as the Headhunter. Dario Argento directs Asia Argento, James Russo, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest and Brad Dourif in this 1993 giallo, with music by Pino Donaggio.
Vinegar Syndrome region-free Blu-ray. 109 minutes; 2.35:1; English stereo and English SDH subtitles. Restored in 4K from a 35mm interpositive, with the complete English dialogue track.
Edition choices: Choose Standard or Slipcover. The Slipcover variant (VS-378-SLIP) includes a slipcover; the film and disc supplements are the same.
Special Features
- Commentaries by The Hysteria Continues! and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Interviews with Dario Argento, Tom Savini, Franco Ferrini, Pino Donaggio and Raffaele Mertes
- Interviews with Sharon Barr, Ira Belgrade, James Russo, Piper Laurie and Rod Smith
- Archival Tom Savini on-set featurette
- Archival electronic press kit with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews
- Video workprint with extended scenes
- Multiple trailers
- Reversible cover artwork
Vinegar Syndrome
About the Director
Dario Argento (b. 1940) started as a film critic and screenwriter — he co-wrote the story for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West — before turning director with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), a giallo thriller that became an immediate international hit and helped shape the genre's visual grammar: black-gloved killers, elaborate murder set pieces, and camera work that implicates the viewer as a voyeur.
Argento's peak run through the 1970s and early '80s — Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno, Tenebre — pushed giallo toward something closer to horror opera, pairing baroque violence with progressive rock scores (many by the band Goblin) and production design that focused on mood and color over realism. Suspiria in particular, with its saturated primary-color lighting and dance-academy-as-haunted-house premise, has become one of the most visually influential horror films ever made, still referenced constantly in cinematography and fashion decades later.
Argento's later career has been more uneven, but his influence on horror aesthetics — internationally, not just within Italian genre cinema — is difficult to overstate. Collectors drawn to giallo, or to horror as a visual medium rather than a purely narrative one, will find Argento's catalog to be essential, era-defining material.
