The system Dario played in,being the Italian film industry has simply stopped making horror films and his budgets shrank. He also As did his passion in later movies. It shows in a lot of stuff. Going to America in the early 90s kind of messed things up as he clashed with producers on both films so that kind of soured him. Stendhal was his last really brilliant film for me, Non Ho Sonno is a really good return to the Animal trilogy, and MOTS is a mess that is still fun to watch even if it has little elements that made the other two classics.

tenebre and phenomena i think are two of my favorite argentos. my top 5 would probably be something like this.
suspiria
tenebre
phenomena
deep red
inferno

It mostly plays like a bad comedy. Was it supposed to be a bad comedy? And if yes, then wtf is the point in making a deliberately poor, ridiculous film? The thing often looked like it was directed by some 14-year old with a hard-on.
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Tenebre is "terribly inept"? Hmmmm.
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Is the OP trying to say his films get even worse than the terribly inept Tenebre & Phenomena? Well, that certainly couldn`t have been easy to achieve
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yea that i can understand, he looks like a mentally challenged sly stallone.

The only mystery aspect of Giallo is wondering why the villain looks so damn silly.
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i diddnt mind giallo, dont think its amazing but dont understand all the bad rep. i loved dracula, the atmosphere was perfect! im guessing you will like dracula you should check it out. i went in with low expectations and came out pleasantly surprised.

I think Giallo was AMAZING true suspense/mystery. I do not understand why it gets such a bad rap I haven't seen the new Dracula yet have you??
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I've noticed that prolific directors have a hard time getting respect because it lowers their overall average. Look at Woody Allen or Ridley Scott. If you just concentrate on their five best films, you would assume they are absolute masters. If you watch their bottom five, you wonder if they have an evil twin or something. Really, the only thing they are guilty of is working non-stop, even if they don't have a great idea for a movie.
Dario Argento made a bunch of great movies but he's made too many for them all to be masterpieces.
Also, Daria Nicolodi was a major part of his success, imo.

he's is considered one of the greatest horror directors. year, such a low standard

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I like all of this films. Yes, there are better, there are worse.but he's a great director

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I tend to like all of Argento's films, even the lesser onesi think that "Mother of Tears" for example is great fun, entertaining and "Giallo" is a decent thriller (i liked Adrien Brody's characters in it)Argento's last works don't really have the magic feel and the scale of his 7O's and 8O's films but they still deliver IMO interesting, personal stuff.
I guess that the flaws of Argento's last works are mostly because of the low/average budget, also some uneven screenwriting.
I really like some of his last works like "The Card Player" and "Jenifer" (from the Masters of Horror tv series), "Dracula", "Do you like Hitchcock?", "Pelts" and "Mother of Tears" are also quite enjoyable.
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