Tenebre Movie Review 1982

In Rome, American horror novelist Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) finds that someone is copying passages from his book "Tenebre" in real razor murders. The rest of the plot is complicated and pretty much dispensable. It serves merely as a clunky, coincidence-driven device to string together a series of sexual and violent images that often involve beautiful women in some stage of undress. The silliness of that side of the film is balanced against Argento's inventive camerawork, which alternates between careful attention to extreme close-up detail and long, complex tracking and crane shots. This film has also been released in America, in a shorter version, as "Unsane."

Distribution

Anchor Bay Entertainment, 1699 Stutz Dr., Troy, MI 48084, Phone: (248)816-0909, Toll-free: 800-786-8777, Fax: (248)816-3335, URL: http://www.anchorbayentertainment.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 101 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Mystery & Suspense

Screenplay

Dario Argento

Cast

Anthony (Tony) Franciosa, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Giuliano Gemma, Christian Borromeo, Mirella D'Angelo, Veronica Lario, Ania Pieroni, Carola Stagnaro, John Steiner, Lara Wendel

Cinematography

Luciano Tovoli

Director

Dario Argento

Music

Goblins, Claudio Simonetti