Dario Argento

Murder staged as design. Argento built the giallo — black-gloved killers, half-remembered witnesses, elaborate deaths — and cared more for colour, camera and score than for who did it. Suspiria and Inferno push the same instinct past the whodunit into pure supernatural nightmare, lit in impossible reds and blues.

Signature

• Black-gloved killers and unreliable witnesses — the giallo he defined.
• Choreographed murder set-pieces prized over plot logic.
• Saturated primary-colour lighting, most extreme in Suspiria and Inferno.
• Prog-rock scores driving the terror as hard as the image.