''Dario Argento's World of Horror'' ( it, Il Mondo dell'orrore di Dario Argento) is an Italian

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

that chronicles the career of Italian director Dario Argento.

Release

''Dario Argento's World of Horror'' was released in West Germany on home video on August 1988.

Reception

From contemporary reviews, an anonymous reviewer in '' Fangoria'', who found the film "fascinating but also strangely endearing" noting that the documentary was "a delightful eye-opener, An Americans who want to know what all the fuss is bout this visionary writer-director can get a good start here."

Tim Lucas Tim Lucas (born May 30, 1956) is a film critic, biographer, novelist, screenwriter, blogger, and publisher and editor of the video review magazine ''Video Watchdog''. Biography and early career Lucas, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the only ...

wrote in '' Fangoria'' that the documentary was "fascinating" and offered many scenes that were at the time cut from American releases of Argento's films including ''

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage ''The Bird with the Crystal Plumage'' () is a 1970 giallo film directed by Dario Argento, in his directorial debut. The film has been credited with popularizing giallo, an Italian genre of thriller developed in the 1960s. It is the first in what ...

'', ''

The Cat o' Nine Tails ''The Cat o' Nine Tails'' ( it, Il gatto a nove code) is a 1971 ''giallo'' film written and directed by Dario Argento, adapted from a story by Dardano Sacchetti, Luigi Cozzi, and an uncredited Bryan Edgar Wallace. It stars Karl Malden, Jame ...

'', '' Four Flies on Grey Velvet'', ''

Tenebrae Tenebrae (—Latin for "darkness") is a religious service of Western Christianity held during the three days preceding Easter Day, and characterized by gradual extinguishing of candles, and by a "strepitus" or "loud noise" taking place in total ...

'' and '' Suspiria''. Lucas also proclaimed that the films "real accomplishment is its portrait of Argento's professional intensity and dedication; he clearly deserves to be taken more seriously by American film audiences, critics, and distributors."

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* Films directed by Michele Soavi Documentary films about film directors and producers Italian documentary films Documentary films about horror Dario Argento Films scored by Claudio Simonetti 1980s Italian films {{arts-documentary-film-stub