Opera

The polar-opposite worlds of opera and horror collide in this gory giallo film from director Dario Argento. Christina Marsillach (Tom Hanks' romantic interest in Every Time We Say Goodbye) stars as Betty, a beautiful understudy who gets an unlikely break to play the female lead in a contemporary ...more

Italian horror director Dario Argento's shocker Opera features a strong display of the filmmaker's signature styles in terms of inventive visuals and fantastic murder set pieces, but the film lacks the story cohesion it needs to fall into the category of his classic genre films. Inspired by +Phantom of the Opera (which Argento remade in 1999), Opera tells the story of a young understudy (Christina Marsillach) who gets her chance to sing thanks to a deranged madman whose connection to the singer ...more