Dario Argento
1. DARK DREAMS - The Films of Dario Argento
Very thorough UK fan site.
Has lots of news, especially on home releases but also festival reports and suchlike, media galore (stills, photos, video clips, audio clips, slideshows, a screensaver, wallpaper, pics of Asia), reviews & interviews, and a database attempting to list all known versions of Argento films from around the world on video, laser disc and DVD.
2. Master of Colours
Lots of interviews and reviews,
info on the soundtracks, credits, synopses and reviews for each of his films, a great collection of film posters, plus stills and on-set photos, with info too on SFX collaborators Sergio Stivaletti and Tom Savini, and miscellany including wallpaper and some midi files.
3. A Fistful of Dario: The Dark Films of Dario Argento
Features regularly updated news, a good and thorough illustrated bibliography, pics of Rome's Profondo Rosso store - with a map for when you're in Rome, plus a potted Argento history and a small but interesting gallery.
4. Dario Argento Master of the Macabre
UK-based site, boasting a fair "brief history", credits, sleeve artwork and info on alternative versions for all Argento's films, plus a few mp3s, an interview and reviews and synopses from Sandy alongside some sourced from elsewhere.
5. Internet Movie DataBase - Dario Argento
Filmography, with links to thoroughly comprehensive cross-referenced info on everyone involved in each of the films of one Dario Argento, aka Sirio Bernadotte, George Kemp and Roberto Pariente.
6. ONElist - Dario
A mailing list you can subscribe to to talk to like-obsessed folk about things Argento. And they keep a message archive.
Also...
La Fantastico Homepage di Goblin
Official site for Goblin and its members, who scored Deep Red, Suspiria and Tenebre, and Phenomena (aka Creepers), and who provided a score for the Italian release of Richard Franklin's Patrick, which also screened this year at MUFF.
Claudio Simonetti - official site for this Goblin member. Listen to some tracks from his new CD!
Flesh & Blood - publishers of quality books and zines on Euro sex and horror, including the colossal "Art of Darkness".
Asia Argento
Swanky official site for the star of Dad's The Stendhal Syndrome and Phantom of the Opera, with lots of pics, downloadable goodies and the like. Send Asia an email!
Deep Red
1. Review of Argento's classic giallo from the fantastic Hysteria! site, a site wholly devoted to slashers, gialli and cheese! Well worth a good long peruse for slasher fans.
2. Review from the excellent Images journal of the Anchor Bay DVD release. Anchor Bay have been releasing a lot of Argentos, (and indeed Francos) with more to come. Visit their site to see what other cultish treats they are offering now or soon...
Suspiria
1. Illustrated article from the classy Images Journal - attached to an excellent feature overview of "The Golden Age of Italian Horror", which also has good coverage of Mario Bava's career, alongside write-ups on great films such as The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, Margheriti's Castle of Blood, Caiano's Nightmare Castle and Pupillo's The Bloody Pit of Horror.
Inferno
1. Review from the Images journal of Anchor Bay's DVD release of Inferno.
The Stendhal Syndrome
1. Official Site at Troma - Yes, that Troma, of Toxic Avenger infamy.
2. Dark Waters' review of this atypical but thoroughly brutal recent Argento.
Phantom of the Opera
1. Official Site at Medusa (Italy). Scroll down the menu and select Il Fantasma Dell'Opera - and you're there. The site is In Italian, by the way.
Jess Franco
1. Mondo Erotico!
Excellent site devoted not just to Franco, but to three other underheralded greats, Walerian Borowczyk, Jean Rollin and Radley Metzger. Find out lots about them all. And there's images and more too.
2. Dark Waters: Franco Reviews
Excellent ezine devoted to esoteric films of the horrific and kinky persuasions - naturally, then, they've got some great coverage of the works of one Jess Franco.
3. Scorelogue - The Films of Jess Franco
Quality film & TV music ezine "Scorelogue'"s cult movie section "Mondo Digital" has reviews of 6 Franco films to have made it onto DVD - Vampyros Lesbos, The Bloody Judge, Succubus, Two Undercover Angels (aka Sadisterotica) and Kiss Me Monster
Also at the Mondo Digital site, reviews of the DVD releases of Female Vampire and Tender Flesh
4. The Pure and Extreme Cinema - The Films of Jesus Franco
Strange site, equal parts dead links and missing graphics, and interesting interviews and articles.
Have a gander at the 'Horrotica' article, Tim Lucas' piece 'The Black Stare of Soledad Miranda', an overview piece called 'Kiss Me, Monster!', and pieces on 'The Awful Dr. Orlof' and on 'Attack of the Robots'.
5. Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
Purveyors of great Euro-sleazy jazz soundtracks, including most famously Vampyros Lesbos. But there's more! For Franco fiends, there's also CDs and vinyl available from Jerry van Rooyen and from Jess Franco himself & the B-Band! Also - an album of Vampyros Lesbos electronica remixes. Order online!
Vampyros Lesbos
1. Nice fan-written piece accompanied by some graphics - video sleeves and tonnes of small stills. It is from a pretty nifty webzine called Cult Cuts, which has all manner of cultish miscellany for you to browse - such as a rare illustrated piece on Italian beauty Edwige Fenech.
2. Synapse Films - these good folks have released a painstakingly-restored DVD of this Franco classic. More info here, including info on ordering. Plus a small picture gallery.
Tender Flesh
1. Seduction Cinema - Page from the film's distributors Seduction Cinema. Bears info on their collector's edition DVD release. And of course, you can order it directly from them.