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Deep Red
"Deep Red" (1975), directed by Dario Argento, follows a musician who witnesses a psychic's murder and becomes entangled in investigating the killer's identity, widely regarded as the film that most fully codified the modern giallo template of stylish murder set-pieces and red-herring-driven mystery plotting. Its elaborate, extended murder sequences, choreographed with unusual visual precision and scored by another driving Goblin soundtrack, set a technical standard for staging violence that subsequent giallo and slasher films directly drew from for decades afterward. The film's intricate mystery plotting, built around a genuinely fair-play puzzle for attentive viewers, distinguished it from giallo films more focused purely on style, giving it lasting reputation among mystery-genre enthusiasts as well as horror fans. Its combination of genre-defining murder set-pieces and unusually rigorous mystery construction has made "Deep Red" one of the two or three films most frequently cited as the definitive giallo achievement.
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Opera
"Opera" (1987), directed by Dario Argento, follows a young understudy soprano stalked by an obsessive killer after she's forced into the lead role of a Verdi opera production following the star's accident, notable for its extended sequences filmed from inside an actual working opera house. Its recurring visual device of needles taped beneath the protagonist's eyes, forcing her to watch the killer's violence without being able to look away, became one of giallo cinema's most discussed and unsettling individual images, frequently cited in analyses of the genre's relationship to spectatorship. The film's elaborate crane and Steadicam work throughout the opera house setting demonstrated Argento's continued technical ambition even in the later, more divisive stretch of his directorial career following his most celebrated 1970s work. Its combination of its distinctive opera-house setting and its widely discussed visual set-pieces has made "Opera" one of the most stylistically ambitious later-period giallo films.
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