FEAR: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DARIO ARGENTO
Adapted, edited, and annotated by Alan Jones
FAB Press
“Argento shies away from nothing and tells you everything you ever wanted to know,” writes editor Alan Jones in the book’s introduction. “Reclusive Italian auteur tells all!” says the lurid title you envision in your head upon reading this. Well, not quite all.
Argento’s Fear is equal parts rewarding and frustrating: if you’re well-versed in the director’s oeuvre, it’s only reasonable that you’ll want to find out as much as possible about his life, thought processes, various creative decisions, and everything else. To this end, he reveals quite a bit, both personal (suicidal thoughts, drug use, relationship problems, family issues, Asia’s nude scenes…) and creative, though the latter details are mostly anecdotal and well known…