Medusa Film Archives

The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 18, 2000Giallo Psycho-Thriller

One of the less effective films in the oeuvre of Dario Argento. Another giallo thriller, this has the same flourishes of style in sporadic moments but the plot is even more confusing than usual

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi

Category: Horror

18 September 200023 August 2023 by Roog

The Phantom of the Opera (1998)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 11, 2000Madman Beneath the Opera House

Dario Argento takes on The Phantom and welcomely rescues it from musical romance and returns it to being a horror film. Despite a beautifully mounted production, Julian Sands' Phantom is too weak and wimpy

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Julian Sands, Asia Argento, Andrea Di Stefano, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni

Category: Horror

11 November 20005 January 2026 by Roog

The Card Player (2004)

Rating: ★★

Jan 27, 2006Giallo Psycho-Thriller

A disappointingly tame giallo thriller from Dario Argento about a poker-playing serial killer. Disappointingly, Argento has cut back on all his customary extravagantly arty and sadistic murder set-pieces

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham, Antonio Cantafora, Claudio Santamaria, …

Category: Horror

27 January 200613 January 2026 by Roog