Argento was really influenced by Bava, who was really influenced by Hitchcok. I don't know that many horror-film directors in recent years that have been particularly influenced by Argento. Soavi and Norman J. Warren maybe, but they're hardly significant to the genre as a whole. I'm sure there re others of more note, but really, argento strikes me as being the end of a line rather than the beginning of one.
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