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However there is a level of commitment - naive or otherwise - present in Argento's films that is far beyond many of his American counterparts. A similar thing goes for Lucio Fulci, with his raw approach to gore providing a substance of its own, like Argento's gloss. It's not the violent acts themselves, its about how the film builds and reacts to them.
I do not think either of these directors are crafty or manipulative enough to deliberately create empty characters - they are perhaps not competent enough to grind out decent performances from poor scripts and actors (and don't forget dubbing), but their work is very watchable nonetheless, even as anti-cinema.
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