Hey, Horror Nerds. Take a second out from huffing the glue from your Aurora models and cast your orbs on this Entertainment Weekly article on up-and-coming director Dario Argento. Were you aware that people make horror films in places other than America, or even Japan? Like, Oh My God! They even have their own name for horror movies, called Giall-O or something. It’s a kind of dessert, but you can only eat it with black gloves.

[Argento’s Animal Trilogy is] also singlehandedly responsible for earning Argento the nickname ”The Italian Hitchcock,” which to be honest would only really fit if Hitchcock had a sweet tooth for lithe Italian models in go-go boots and the kind of psychedelic freakout music that’s one part Ennio Morricone and two parts European porno soundtrack.

Of course, the three films he’s referring to were scored entirely by Morricone, but that was during his “porno” period, so all is forgiven.

I’d love a job at Entertainment Weekly, but it looks like I’m overqualified. That or it’s because I’m a mouth-breathing, tranchcoat-wearing horror nerd.

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