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The brutal New York Ripper aside, I find Argento's stabbing, slashing approach to gore far more rattling than Fulci's smashed heads and fantastic eye-puncturing.
Look at the amazing razorwire sequence in Suspria, and the gruesome fingernails bit in Sleepless.
However, Argento's stories can be just as convoluted and incoherent as Fulci's - Inferno and Trauma for example - and in fact Fulci was more than capable of coming up with a fine giallo/mystery (Don't Torture a Ducking, The Psychic, One on Top of the Other) before he was seduced by crumbling zombies.
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