Saturday, June 07, 2025

The Facts in the Case of M. Argento

Imagine you're adapting a Poe story with the creepiest exchange ever:

There's a critically ill character who's been hypnotized. 
I had asked him, it will be remembered, if he still slept. He now said:
"Yes;- no; - I have been sleeping -- and now -- now -- I am dead."

I still remember reading that for the first time. Freaked me right out. 

But wait! You're not just any filmmaker; you're a goddamn Italian, so you take this brilliantly unsettling story and wrap it in a trite marital infidelity plot with a revenge zombie. WOOHOO!

Fucking Argento, man. I'm so sick of people fawning over that guy.


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