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| name        =Dario Argento's World of Horror
| image       = Worldofhorrordvd.jpg
| caption     = DVD cover
| writer      = Michele Soavi<ref name="Ger1989" />
| starring    = [[Dario Argento]]<br>[[Urbano Barberini]]<br>[[Ken Foree]]<br />[[Romano Albani]]
| director    = [[Michele Soavi]]<ref name="Ger1989" />
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| country     = Italy<ref name="Ger1989" />
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'''''Dario Argento's World of Horror''''' ({{langx|it|Il Mondo dell'orrore di Dario Argento}}) is an Italian [[documentary film]] that chronicles the career of Italian director [[Dario Argento]].<ref name="Ger1989-2">{{cite book|title=Fischer Film Almanach 1989|isbn=3-596-24486-2|publisher=Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag|language=German|year=1989|page=420}}</ref>

==Release==
''Dario Argento's World of Horror'' was released in West Germany on home video in August 1988.<ref name="Ger1989">{{cite book|title=Fischer Film Almanach 1989|isbn=3-596-24486-2|publisher=Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag|language=German|year=1989|page=419}}</ref>

==Reception==
From contemporary reviews, an anonymous reviewer in ''[[Fangoria]]'', who found the film "fascinating but also strangely endearing" noting that the documentary was "a delightful eye-opener, An Americans who want to know what all the fuss is bout this visionary writer-director can get a good start here."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Fangoria]]|title=The Video Eye of Dr. Cyclops|issue=67|page=19|date=September 1987|volume=7|issn=0164-2111}}</ref> [[Tim Lucas]] wrote in ''[[Fangoria]]'' that the documentary was "fascinating" and offered many scenes that were at the time cut from American releases of Argento's films including ''[[The Bird with the Crystal Plumage]]'', ''[[The Cat o' Nine Tails]]'', ''[[Four Flies on Grey Velvet]]'', ''[[Tenebrae (film)|Tenebrae]]'' and ''[[Suspiria]]''.
<ref name="Lucas">{{cite magazine|magazine=Fangoria|title=The Butchering of Argento|issue=66|page=65|date=August 1987|volume=7|issn=0164-2111|last=Lucas|first=Tim|authorlink=Tim Lucas}}</ref> Lucas also proclaimed that the films "real accomplishment is its portrait of Argento's professional intensity and dedication; he clearly deserves to be taken more seriously by American film audiences, critics, and distributors."<ref name="Lucas" />

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0088989|Dario Argento's World of Horror}}

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[[Category:Films directed by Michele Soavi]]
[[Category:Documentary films about film directors and producers]]
[[Category:Italian documentary films]]
[[Category:Documentary films about horror]]
[[Category:Dario Argento]]
[[Category:Films scored by Claudio Simonetti]]
[[Category:1988 Italian films]]


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