Dario Argento

An absolute master of the genre up until Suspiria (1977), a good craftsman of films that are overall decent until Phenomena (1985), with Opera (1987) the decline begins... and after this last film, it all falls into the abyss of banality, into terrible little movies and trash of the worst kind: Il Fantasma dell'Opera, Il Cartaio, La Terza Madre...