Tenebre
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Actor: Anthony Franciosa, Christian Borromeo, Isabella Amadeo, Mirella Banti, Mirella D'AngeloPrimary Contributor: Anthony Franciosa
Primary Contributor: Giuliano Gemma
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Widescreen
Running Time: 101 minutes
Release Date: 1999-02-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
VHS Movie Reviews of Tenebre
Movie Review: "Any humiliation which stood in his way could be swept aside by the simple act of annihilation. Murder."
Summary: 4 Stars
I often wonder if when Dario Argento passes a beautiful woman while walking down the street, does he think to himself "I'd love to kill the hell out of her!". The man has both a talent and a fetish for taking the sexiest women he can find and doing abominably brutal things to them on film. Not a complaint, mind you; just an observation. A wise man once proclaimed "death by Argento is heavenly". Indeed, there is no more stylish way for a gorgeous actress to go out then in a torrent of red in one of the man's horror films. "Tenebre" has the highest onscreen bodycount of any Argento film I've seen so far and that's an accomplishment in itself. It's a rather by-the-book murder-mystery which often pays homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of Sherlock Holmes both in word and in story. Its an exceptionally watchable film for more casual viewers who don't take their horror with Argento's usual doses of surrealism and is an all-around solid entry into Italy's pantheon of giallo classics.
10 things I learned from "Tenebre":
1) Don't ever give a Doberman attitude.
2) Butterfaces = transsexuals. It's Crying Game time!
3) Clubbing yourself with a rock: surprisingly sound strategy.
4) Trick razor blades are fun and practical. Fool your friends!
5) Lesbian lover's spats are HOT...and invariably lead to horrible death.
6) Horrible death: also hot.
7) Red paint prices going up or just to lazy to pick up a brush? Try dismemberment!
8) When running away from a serial killer, always face away from the impending death regardless of your hotness or the camera's location.
9) Keep all wooden fences in good repair at all times.
10) Argento REALLY likes red.
"Tenebre" is another outstanding entry to the genre from the master and should entertain nearly any fan of murder-mysteries and/or horrific violence. The score is amazing, the red keeps a-flowin', the clothes keep a-coming off of the women, and the mystery will keep you guessing until the end makes you shout "bulls!+!" at your television. But all's fair in love, war, and mysteries so deal with it. I'm not a fan of the genre due to the rigid formulaic nature of the storytelling, but I occasionally partake and as far as giallo goes, you can scarcely do better than this.
Summary of Tenebre
After several excursions into supernatural horror, Dario Argento returned to the homicidal frenzy that made his reputation with this mystery that plays more like a grown-up slasher movie than a detective thriller. Anthony Franciosa stars as Peter Neal, a bestselling horror novelist whose promotional tour in Italy takes a terrible turn when a mysterious killer re-creates the brutal murders from his book with real-life victims. The first to die are so-called "deviants," Neal's own friends, and finally there comes a promise that the author himself is next on the list. Columbo it ain't, but Argento has always been more concerned with style than story and his execution of the crimes is pure cinematic bravura. From the simple beauty of a straight razor shattering a light bulb (the camera catches the red-hot filament slowly blacking out) to an ambitious crane shot that creeps up and over the sides of a house under siege in a voyeuristic survey that would make Hitchcock proud, Argento turns the art of murder into a stylish spectacle. He even lets his kinkier side show with flashbacks of an adolescent boy and a teasing dominatrix in red stiletto heels that become a key motif of the film. The objects of Argento's homicidal tendencies are traditionally lovely, scantily clad Italian beauties, and with self-deprecating humor he even inserts a scene in which Neal is taken to task for the misogynist violence of his stories--an accusation Argento himself has weathered for years. --Sean AxmakerArt House & International VHS Video
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