The During the 1970s, during the 1970s, Italian's trendiest horror filmmaker Darrio Argento

had enjoyed huge success with his first few films. Movies like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and

deep red were violent gory mystery thrillers which sat firmly in the tradition

of the Italian Jalo.

However, in 1977, Arjanto veered away from the traditional procedural format of the Jello

and towards somewhere more supernatural and experimental. his next two movies focused on witchcraft and the occult.

Both films played out more like psychedelic nightmares and both films went on discuss Dario Argento's

Suspiria and Inferno.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome. In this podcast we explore and

dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-genres one series at a time.

We are currently in the middle of exploring the evolution of the occult in horror cinema, and

this is part 12, in which as that intro suggested we're going to be

looking at two Italian classics it's going to be a witchy Argento double bill

sosperia and inferno these will both be spoilerific reviews, although to be honest I wouldn't

really worry too much about plot details for these two movies. You've got to kind of see them to

experience them. But they are classics so I would urge you go away and

watch them both before listening to our discussion now before we get started just a very

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