Dario Argento and other similar movies...

[goodtricks]

Deep Red is my favorite.

[6AM]

Opera was my favorite movie that he did. Suspira and Deep Red are really good, too.

As far as Italian horror films go, my favorite was one called Cemetery Man by a Argento protege maked Michele Soavi. It's an existential film wrapped in horror and dark comedy. Really fantastic. I doubt it will ever see a Blu-ray release as it took forever for a domestic DVD release and is now out of print.

[twostep08]

literally heard of cemetery man this week and it's next on my list to buy. It sounded really good. Ironically in my movie book all of argentos flix but like suspiria got like really poor reviews- for most other movies it's very accurate, bit I was shocked that based on all the good things I've been hearing they were all like 2 out of 5...are there any other good Italian flicks from other directors in particular?

[csdot]

Lamberto Bava's movie Demons is amazing.
aside from Cemetery Man Michele Soavi has another great movie called Stage Fright.

also dont worry about any review in a book, these arent movies for the general movie watching public. if you enjoy italian horror movies, everything mentioned is the cream of the crop.

[6AM]

Argento's films start feeling repetitive after a while. I can see where a reviewer would give them poor reviews.

[6AM]

Originally Posted by csdot

Lamberto Bava's movie Demons is amazing.
aside from Cemetery Man Michele Soavi has another great movie called Stage Fright.

also dont worry about any review in a book, these arent movies for the general movie watching public. if you enjoy italian horror movies, everything mentioned is the cream of the crop.

Soavi also did The Church, which was supposed to be Demons 3. I liked it more than Stage Fright, which was your standard slasher fare.

[csdot]

yeah i have The Church it just never really stuck with me like Stage Fright. the medieval prologue in the Church was always creepy to me i dont know why. i love the movie i just like Stage Fright more.
ill also add some titles by Mario Bava, as without him most of these movies wouldnt exist. The essentials to me are Blood and Black Lace, Twitch of the Death Nerve aka Bay of Blood, Black Sunday, Baron Blood, and Kill Baby Kill. and he has a great cheesy sci-fi movie called Planet of the Vampires which i could see people not liking but ive always loved, theres some elements that you can tell were an influence on Alien.
if you want to check out other euro horror films one of my favorites is The Grapes of Death, great french horror movie.

[Braktastic]

Originally Posted by goodtricks

Deep Red is my favorite.

Damn skippy! This needs a BD release ASAP!

[twostep08]

just stumbled acrss this again...

btw, just found out that cemetery man is on TV toight if anyones interested-- i know the DVD is OOP and can be expensive/hard to find

[demoni]

So many great movies mentioned here!!! Want'em all on Blu-ray!

Soavi's Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetary Man) is the best zombie movie ever made! Done deal.

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by demoni

Soavi's Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetary Man) is the best zombie movie ever made! Done deal.

Debatable, to say the least

[demoni]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

Debatable, to say the least

Nah!! It's the best. Just deal with it.

[SymbioticFunction]

Dellamorte Dellamore (or *cough* Cemetary Man) is a genre masterpiece. I expect to see it appear on blu ray.

The far earlier Italian dvd (which had an English track) had a better print, so I would expect to see it from Italy first.

Stage Fright & The Church are also good 7/10-ish stylised films. Despite bizarre favourable reviews, the Sect however, is an absolute stinker. An almost complete mis-fire.

Harking back to the actual thread query...

Similar to Argento movies also on blu ray? Hmmm. The New York Ripper giallo by Fulci is probably your best bet.