GIALLO SOURCE CODE [The Spiral Staircase & Tenebrae]

Plenty of people have drawn connections between specific sequences in Argento's films and the movies that influenced his filmmaking. One such film is Robert Siodmak's 1946 noir THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE. Below are some caps from the first murder in STAIRCASE, and how they compare to (and, I have to think, inspired) Tilde's murder in Argento's TENEBRAE (1982).