Daria Nicolodi Archives

Deep Red (1976)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 8, 2000Giallo Psycho-Thriller

Another of the giallo psycho-thrillers from Dario Argento in his heyday as David Hemmings is witness to a murder and tries to find the killer. As with Argento's films of this period, focused around a series of stylish and sadistic dispatches

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia

Category: Horror

8 April 200019 February 2026 by Roog

Schock (1977)

Rating: ★★★

May 30, 2014Possible Haunting/Possible Hallucinations

The last film from the great Mario Bava – an uncanny effort filled with some strikingly spooky scenes that leaves you uncertain whether what we are seeing is a haunting, a possession or is taking place in a mad woman’s fraying mind

Director: Mario Bava

Actors: Daria Nicolodi, David Colin Jr, John Steiner

Category: Horror

30 May 201415 October 2020 by Roog

Inferno (1980)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 17, 2000Witchcraft Murders

Dario Argento's sequel to Suspiria, the second film in his Third Mothers trilogy. This is an even better work where Argento delights in sadistic and beautifully artistic imagery almost entirely free of any plot

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Daria Nicolodi, Sacha Pitoeff, …

Category: Horror

17 February 200017 April 2026 by Roog

Tenebrae (1982)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 18, 2000Giallo Psycho-Thriller

Another of Dario Argento's giallo psycho-thrillers with all the stylistically wild and over-the-top deaths one expects as a horror writer finds people being murdered with pages from his books in their mouths

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Daria Nicolodi, John Saxon, Mimsy Farmer, …

Category: Horror

18 February 200013 January 2026 by Roog

Phenomena (1985)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 3, 1999Giallo Thriller/Insect Telepathy

Another of Dario Argento's giallo thrillers filled with all his trademark artily extravagant deaths. At the centre of the film is a teenage Jennifer Connelly who can psychically communicate with insects

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, …

Category: Horror

3 September 199925 February 2026 by Roog

Opera (1987)

Rating: ★★★★

May 9, 2000Giallo Psycho-Thriller

This may well be the finest of Dario Argento's giallo thrillers. Set around the production of an opera, this offers a series of murder set-pieces staged with an artistry that is as extraordinary as their sadism

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, …

Category: Horror

9 May 20005 January 2026 by Roog

Delirium (1987)

Rating: ★★

Oct 9, 2024Giallo Film

The great Mario Bava was the man who essentially created the giallo film. Here his son Lamberto makes an entry, which rehashes much of Mario’s seminal Blood and Black Lace, albeit more crudely

Director: Lamberto Bava

Actors: Serena Grandi, Daria Nicolodi, Karl Zinny, Vanni Corbellini, …

Category: Horror

9 October 202425 January 2026 by Roog

Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)

Rating: ★

Jan 1, 2001Arabian Nights Adventure

An incredibly bad Italian-made Sinbad adventure starring Lou Ferrigno that is laughable in its dialogue and acting and incredibly tatty in its budget pinching

Director: Enzo G. Castellari

Actors: Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Roland Wybenga, Haruhiko Yamanouchi, …

Category: Fantasy

1 January 200110 December 2020 by Roog

Mother of Tears: The Third Mother (2007)

Rating: ★★

Oct 19, 2008Italian Occult Horror

After 27 years, Dario Argento finally rounds out his Three Mothers trilogy begun way back with Suspiria but the underwhelming results give all evidence of his having lost his mojo

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Asia Argento, Udo Kier, Daria Nicolodi

Category: Horror

19 October 20084 July 2022 by Roog