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Film Details
119 min / Blu-Ray: 1.85:1 // DVD 1.66:1 / ["Color"] / Region Free
Cast and Creators
Dario Argento
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$29.99
About the Film
When beautiful police detective Anna Manni follows the bloody trail of a sophisticated serial murderer/rapist through the streets of Italy, the young woman falls victim to the bizarre 'Stendhal Syndrome' - a hallucinatory phenomenon which causes her to lose her mind and memory in the presence of powerful works of art.
Directed by Dario Argento. Choose the edition using the format selector. Both editions run approximately 119 minutes.
DVD option — BLU-DV-2014
Two-DVD Special Edition, UPC 827058201490. The feature was remastered from the original Italian 35mm interpositive under the supervision of cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno. Includes the trailer and interviews covering direction, psychological inspiration, special effects, assistant direction and production design.
Blu-ray option — BLU-BD-7074
Blu-ray feature plus bonus-features DVD, UPC 827058707497. The feature uses a 2K restoration from the original uncensored camera negative and is presented in 1080p at 1.85:1. English and Italian audio options include 7.1 DTS-HD, 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX and 2.0 DTS-HD. Subtitles include English for the Italian audio, English SDH, French and Spanish.
Blu-ray-edition supplements include Troy Howarth’s commentary; interviews with Asia Argento, Franco Ferrini and Franco Casagni; theatrical trailer; poster/still gallery; and interviews with Dario Argento, Graziella Magherini, Sergio Stivaletti, Luigi Cozzi and Massimo Antonello Geleng.
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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.
