'Dark Glasses' (2022) Movie Review

With Dark Glasses, his first film since 2012’s Dracula 3D, horror legend Dario Argento wants to remind you that, even at 81, he can still make a Dario Argento movie. Most, or at least many of his cinematic trademarks are present and accounted for. We’ve got striking colors, an unseen killer terrorizing young women, and a Goblin-esque score that could be lifted from one of the director’s late-70s/early-80s works, among other touches. While it doesn’t reach the highs of his more iconic films, it’s quick and efficient, fits solidly in his wheelhouse, and certainly rates higher than much of his recent output.

Blu-Ray Review: Dario Argento's 'Opera'

In a career full of nutty, brutal, style-forward horror films, few titles on Dario Argento’s resume are as strange, violent, or aesthetically singular as his 1987 giallo, Opera, which has a nice new Blu-ray release from Scorpion. In one of the bonus features, the director calls it his favorite of his films, and it’s easy to see why. It’s like a collection of all of his visual and thematic faves and watches a bit like if Douglas Sirk make horror movies instead of domestic melodramas.