Here's another one for the horror fans: The House Next Door contributor Kevin Lee is producing a series of video essays based on this definitive list of the 1,000 Greatest Films. His most recent installment tackles Inferno, Dario Argento's horror classic about architecture, identity, and death-by-cats.
In Lee's mind, Argento's style contains "a touch too much camp in its perversity to be truly horrifying." He instead "locates [his] pleasure" in Argento's emphasis on place and space, recasting Inferno as something like "a horror version of an Antonioni movie." But whereas Antonioni was concerned with the psychology of his wandering women, Argento's female protagonists, though similarly traumatized, are little more than graphic elements, "as abstract as the concept of red or blue." It's really fascinating stuff. You can check out all of Lee's videos here, or read his blog here.
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