I kinda feel sorry for Argento, sure he has gone off the boil but who the f*ck other than a few horror fans would bother going to see his newer films if they had been made in the style of his old films. Times change as do audience expectations of what is a good film. Any of his earlier films just wouldn't be commercially viable these days even if shot scene for scene with whatever actor happens to be flavour of the month.
The real problem is genre fans living in a hermetically sealed world and not seeing the bigger picture sometimes.
Rant over, feel free to attack!
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