Synopsis
...terror beyond belief
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
1982 Directed by Dario Argento
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Anthony Franciosa John Saxon Daria Nicolodi Giuliano Gemma Christian Borromeo Mirella D'Angelo Veronica Lario Ania Pieroni Eva Robin's Carola Stagnaro John Steiner Lara Wendel Isabella Amadeo Mirella Banti Ennio Girolami Monica Maisani Marino Masé Fulvio Mingozzi Giampaolo Saccarola Ippolita Santarelli Francesca Viscardi Dario Argento Lamberto Bava Michele Soavi
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dario argento: why should you be in my movie
actor: well i dress really good and i can rock a pretty bad haircut on top of the fact my dubbing will be super awkward and you can have my death scene scored to funky 70s music
dario argento wiping away a tear: youre hired
After continuing the supernatural themes of 1977’s Suspiria with his next film, 1980's jaw droppingly beautiful Inferno (please acquire that for a new reissue Synapse!) Argento returned to the fabled Giallo genre which he helped popularize with what I believe to be his best crafted film as a director. In his prime, flowing with creativity and imaginative gusto, we received 1982's Tenebre. With its black-gloved killer, pulsating score from frequent Argento collaborators Goblin, spectacular camera-work and shockingly gory murders, Tenebre delivers everything you could ask for in a surprisingly cautionary giallo—style AND substance.... Pushing every trope to the excessive edge, and fucking the blueprint which he helped write, tearing it down in the process.
Several bloody set pieces dominate each act of…
This film is basically if Vogue Magazine and the Pirelli Calendar got together and made a slasher movie and then got Daft Punk to do the soundtrack.
Perfection. This is such a wonderful and amazing movie. Absolutely peak level giallo. Trading your body for a paperback, shoving book pages in Ania Pieroni’s mouth, totally abandoning your luggage to take a phone call at the airport, two faced reporters, John Steiner giving an epic eye roll, Daria Nicolodi with that kinda awful but incredibly endearing dub (“I’ll be right round”), John Saxon spinning his hat around, Lara Wendel flapping around all over the place as she escapes the wrath of a pissed off dog only to face the wrath of the killer, Christian Borromeo in pants so tight that him jumping a fence defies all science and logic, Veronica Lario’s sublime “woe is me AND I’ve got the…
International best selling author, Peter Neal, travels to Rome to promote his latest novel, Tenebre. While in Rome, an unknown killer starts harassing Peter. As the bodies pile up, the mystery is just beginning, in this gory giallo from the mind of Dario Argento.
For some unknown reason, I've never seen a Dario Argento movie until now. I've watched movies from Bava, Lenzi, and Fulci; almost always having a great time in the process. Sometimes, it's cool to experience a great movie after you've seen a lot of different movies in the same genre. You appreciate the awesome ones even more. I'm looking forward to more Argento in the future.
Tenebre is classic giallo and then some. The unknown killer.…
#Giallo
Put on the funky soundtrack for maximum satisfaction: Tenebre Main Theme
Argento: *murders someone in the first 10 minutes with a razor while stuffing their mouth full of pages torn out of a book on perversion*
Argento: *does the most epic 1st person POV shot as the killer chases down the girl in the garden of his fancy villa then hacks her up with his trusty axe*
Argento: *tops The Shining in the quantity and quality of axe kills*
Argento: *does a stupendous triple plot twist involving a severed arm, a fake razor, and lots of screaming*
Me: Where has this been all my life?
Honestly, I don't know where I've been in my 20 years without ever having…
"Massimo, when are you going to take my picture?"
"Never, sweetheart."
Pure voyeur's-manifesto formalism, like one of De Palma's late non sequitur dreamboats, say FEMME FATALE or PASSION. Everything's twinned, mirrored, or split. Such a jolt. Like a sexy babe's cherry red pump-heel jammed into your mouth.
A severed arm spraying massive amounts of eye-poppingly red blood all over a white wall is what 4K HDR was made for
"Tenebrae" is a masterwork done by Italian director and auteur Dario Argento. Filmed and released in the early 80's as Argento had clearly had some established credibility and fandom, this film has an energy of refined effort, a structure build of many years of hard work being perfected leading up to this presentation. This is not a discrediting of other works, as there is extraordinary fandom all over his vast filmography built of different efforts within theme, it is just showcased that this film of a heightened build to show of processional work, something that is very fine tuned in nature. He also brings in a stellar cast and the incredibly atmospheric music of Claudio Simonetti and Goblin to do…
It's a tough one to call but I think this might actually be Argento's best film and my own personal favourite of his oeuvre. A sensational blending of style and substance; a narrative that effortlessly juggles an intriguing Giallo plotline with so many opposing elements that stem from and reflect back in to the film's internal logic. Goblin's score lives and breathes and is perfectly used by the Argento; whose composition of every element in the film is pitch perfect. Truly the work of an auteur at the height of his talents! The final twenty minutes are literally the best cinema I've ever seen. A veritable rollercoaster ride that loses none of its excitement no matter how many times I've seen it. Pure majesty in every sense; there's not enough plaudits in the world to give this film! A masterpiece.