Dario Argento

A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so closely.

With Argento's trademark visual style, linked with one of his more coherent plots, Tenebrae follows a writer who arrives to Rome only to find somebody is using his novels as the inspiration (and, occasionally, the means) of committing murder. As the death toll mounts the police are ever baffled, and the writer becomes more closely linked to the case than is comfortable.

Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders…

This astoundingly prolific Italian composer's alternately dreamily hypnotic, bracingly dissonant and tensely pulsating scores have graced nearly 400 films and TV programs since the early 1960s. Ennio Morricone first came to international prominence with a haunting score that whined and whistled through the parched and dusty streets of Sergio Leone's landmark "spaghetti" Western, "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964)–the first of six collaborations between the two. Several of his musical underscores have proven popular in the USA, particularly those for Roland Joffe's "The Mission" (1986) and Brian De Palma's "The Untouchables" (1987), but he may be most famous for the rousing theme to Leone's "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (1966-Italy; 1968-USA)

George Romero's 1978 follow-up to his classic Night of the Living Dead is quite terrifying and gory (those zombies do like the taste of living flesh). But in its own way, it is just as comically satiric as the first film in its take on contemporary values. This time, we follow the fortunes of four people who lock themselves inside a shopping mall to get away from the marauding dead and who then immerse themselves in unabashed consumerism, taking what they want from an array of clothing and jewelry shops, making gourmet meals, etc. It is Romero's take on Louis XVI in the modern world: keep the starving masses at bay and crank up the insulated indulgence. Still, this is a horror film when all is said and done, and even some of Romero's best visual jokes (a Hare Krishna turned blue-skinned zombie) can make you sweat.

With Argento's trademark visual style, linked with one of his more coherent plots, Tenebrae follows a writer who arrives to Rome only to find somebody is using his novels as the inspiration (and, occasionally, the means) of committing murder. As the death toll mounts the police are ever baffled, and the writer becomes more closely linked to the case than is comfortable - Peter Neal, romanziere americano sulla cresta dell'onda, giunge a Roma per la presentazione del suo ultimo best seller: "Tenebre". Appena arrivato, si trova suo malgrado coinvolto in una serie di delitti, opera di un maniaco che, ispirandosi al suo romanzo, uccide alcune donne ree, secondo il suo distorto giudizio, di infamanti aberrazioni.

Un tentativo di furto presso l'istituto Terzi, dove si stanno svolgendo esperimenti segreti nel campo della genetica, e la morte del dottor Calabresi, un ricercatore dell'istituto, mettono contemporaneamente in azione il commissario Spini, il giornalista Carlo Giordani e Franco Ardò, un cieco appassionato di enigmistica. Mentre la polizia indaga…

TRANSILVANIA, 1893. La vista di una fotografia esposta a casa di Lucy, che ritrae Mina e Jonathan Harker, sposi felici nel giorno delle nozze, è la molla che fa scattare la furiosa bramosia del Conte Dracula, che rivede in Mina la reincarnazione della sua amata, Dolingen De Gratz, morta più di 400 anni prima. Con l'ausilio delle sue adepte Lucy e Tania, il …