Brilliant plot, great staging and the comanding presence of Florinda Bolkan. Lucio Fulci at his prime. It might have inspired movies like "Basic Instinct.

Behind the apparent fachade of exploitation lies a deeply affecting story of youth gone wrong. Another superb score by Ennio Morricone.

Every frame in this Mario Bava movie works as an illustration of one of those pulp books that gave this cinematic genre its name. Each murder looks much like a work of art, and Argento got the message.

My recommendation is for "Death walk on high heels" a brilliant, Hitchcockian excercise of suspense, with a shifting female lead a la Kim Novak.

My personal favorite from Sergio Martino. A police investigation conducted by a detective with spectacles which breaks very often. Lots of action, the editing is flawless, and it contains one of the funniest car chases in movie history.

A giallo's take on women trapped in ominous conspirations of the occult (like Rosemary's baby, minus the baby). Seriously, the movie is very atmospheric, has surprises and a very naked Edwige Fenech."

Further Dario Argento's explorations into the distorted realities of criminal minds looming over ordinary people. This time it is a blind man's ludicrous associations and insatiable curiosity that crosses paths with the killer.

Maybe this film is too similar to Wes Craven's "The Last House On The Left" for its own good. However, the train sequence is original enough and the acting is riveting. Not for the faint of heart.

Manage to endure the first 15 min of this crude shocker (which include necrophilia and dismemberment) and you will be rewarded with a very bleak and unapologetically revisionist Hitchcockian feast.

Sergio Martino's at his most exploitative is a hit and miss affair. Nevertheless, the tense cat and the canary game played by an injured Suzy Kendall and the killer near the end justifies the vision.

A typical example of Dario Argento's obsession with architecture as a metaphorical stage for warped states of mind. One of the goriest and also funniest of Argento's films.

The very original plot circles around the trials of an american girl in a swiss boarding school, whose ability to communicate with insects makes her the key to solve a series of gruesome murders.

Lamberto Bava's debut behind the camera tells the story of a very bad mother, whose inordinate obsession for a lover makes her fall into a spiral of necrophilic madness.

For all its powerful storytelling, uncompromising message about the dangers of the media playing God and its influece on movies like "The Blair Witch Project", this is much more than just exploitation.