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Terror Beyond Belief!
A notorious horror classic returns in all its depraved glory. This infamous video nasty updated the classic Giallo blueprint for the gorified 80s, courting controversy and drenching the viewer in crimson arterial spray.
A razor-wielding psycho is stalking the horror writer Peter Neal, in Rome to promote his latest work, Tenebre. But the author isn t the obsessive killer s only target, the beautiful women who surround him are doomed as one by one, they fall victim to the murderer s slashing blade...
Will fiction and reality blur as fear and madness take hold? Watch in terror as by turns the cast fall victim to the sadistic imagination of Dario Argento, Italy s master of horror.
Special Features:
- 4 Sleeve art options with original and newly commissioned art work
- Double-sided fold-out poster
- Exclusive collector s booklet featuring brand new writing on Tenebrae by Alan Jones, author of Profondo Argento
- Brand new HD restoration of the film
- Optional original mono English and Italian audio
- Audio Commentary with Argento experts, journalists and writers Kim Newman and Alan Jones
- Audio Commentary with Argento expert Thomas Rostock
- Introduction by Daria Nicolodi
- Screaming Queen! Daria Nicolodi remembers Tenebrae
- The Unsane World of Tenebrae: An interview with Dario Argento
- A Composition for Carnage: Claudio Simonetti on Tenebrae
- Goblin: Tenebrae and Phenomena Live from the Glasgow Arches
- Original Trailer
Review
A riveting horror film --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
Sadistically beautiful and viciously exciting, welcome to true terror with Dario Argento s shockingly relentless Tenebrae. --Bbc
Tenebrae's sexual frisson and eye for splatter is explicitly nasty. But there s more to this accomplished slasher than just blood 'n' guts, Argento busily subverting thriller conventions while toying with the viewer s preconceptions about misogynous screen violence. --Total Film
--Total Film
Sadistically beautiful and viciously exciting, welcome to true terror with Dario Argento s shockingly relentless Tenebrae. --Bbc
Tenebrae's sexual frisson and eye for splatter is explicitly nasty. But there s more to this accomplished slasher than just blood 'n' guts, Argento busily subverting thriller conventions while toying with the viewer s preconceptions about misogynous screen violence. --Total Film
Sadistically beautiful and viciously exciting, welcome to true terror with Dario Argento s shockingly relentless Tenebrae. --Bbc
Tenebrae's sexual frisson and eye for splatter is explicitly nasty. But there s more to this accomplished slasher than just blood 'n' guts, Argento busily subverting thriller conventions while toying with the viewer s preconceptions about misogynous screen violence. --Total Film
Sadistically beautiful and viciously exciting, welcome to true terror with Dario Argento s shockingly relentless Tenebrae. --Bbc
Tenebrae's sexual frisson and eye for splatter is explicitly nasty. But there s more to this accomplished slasher than just blood 'n' guts, Argento busily subverting thriller conventions while toying with the viewer s preconceptions about misogynous screen violence. --Total Film
--Total Film
Sadistically beautiful and viciously exciting, welcome to true terror with Dario Argento s shockingly relentless Tenebrae. --Bbc
Tenebrae's sexual frisson and eye for splatter is explicitly nasty. But there s more to this accomplished slasher than just blood 'n' guts, Argento busily subverting thriller conventions while toying with the viewer s preconceptions about misogynous screen violence. --Total Film
Sadistically beautiful and viciously exciting, welcome to true terror with Dario Argento s shockingly relentless Tenebrae. --Bbc
Tenebrae's sexual frisson and eye for splatter is explicitly nasty. But there s more to this accomplished slasher than just blood 'n' guts, Argento busily subverting thriller conventions while toying with the viewer s preconceptions about misogynous screen violence. --Total Film
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
By Bobby Klump
Format:DVD
Tenebrae is a very good film.
I like the clothes and the clean colourful look in this 1984 film.
The main character named Peter Neal is also very interesting.
The ending of Tenebrae is also very good.
There are some gory horror scenes which include an axe decapitating a woman hand
This arrow DVD extras include an interview with Director Dario argento and an interview with the acress Daria Nicolodi. Daria explains how her role in the film as the assistant to the main character in Tenebrae was straightforward and plain. Daria Nicolodi wanted a more stronger charcter role in Tenebrae.
for some reason the introduction to both Tenebrae and deep red by one of the filmmakers is difficult to listen to. The introduction audio is very bad.
I prefer Tenebrae to Dario argentos previous Giallo film with david hemmings called deep red.
Tenebrae is very enjoyable.
I like the clothes and the clean colourful look in this 1984 film.
The main character named Peter Neal is also very interesting.
The ending of Tenebrae is also very good.
There are some gory horror scenes which include an axe decapitating a woman hand
This arrow DVD extras include an interview with Director Dario argento and an interview with the acress Daria Nicolodi. Daria explains how her role in the film as the assistant to the main character in Tenebrae was straightforward and plain. Daria Nicolodi wanted a more stronger charcter role in Tenebrae.
for some reason the introduction to both Tenebrae and deep red by one of the filmmakers is difficult to listen to. The introduction audio is very bad.
I prefer Tenebrae to Dario argentos previous Giallo film with david hemmings called deep red.
Tenebrae is very enjoyable.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Famous writer Peter Neal releases his latest book, Tenebrae and it becomes a world wide success. Then however while on a trip to Rome people start dying just as they are predicted in the book. So along with police Inspector Germani he tries to find out who is killing those people and why.
After directing Deep Red in 1975, Dario Argento returns to the Giallo genre with this bloody and thrilling murder mystery which is the best Italian Giallo film of the 1980s.
Anthony Franciosa is great as Peter Neal and I felt his look and acting style was perfect for his character and Spaghetti Western star Giuliano Gemma was even better as Inspector Germani. There is also some good support from American Actor John Saxon as Bullmer, Neal's agent and English John Steiner as suspicious journalist.
As with most of Argento's films we get to experience some pretty gory murder sequences, involving, Axes, Knifes, razor blades and in one case someone is strangled with a piece of rope. Its all great stuff, the most violent death occurs near the end of the film were a woman has her arm chopped off with a axe before been repeatably stabbed while she is lying on the floor dying.
The score by Argento's regular composers Goblin is very typical of their style and their fans will love it but I really didn't and felt that it didn't suit the film at all, except for the piece played over the flashback sequences which I thought was really good. I just wish he had stuck to using Ennio Morricone as he had done in his first movies.
Overall it may not be as good as his earlier work but with a good twist at the end its well worth watching.
Arrow once again release a classic, with great picture quality and some interesting extras aswell.
After directing Deep Red in 1975, Dario Argento returns to the Giallo genre with this bloody and thrilling murder mystery which is the best Italian Giallo film of the 1980s.
Anthony Franciosa is great as Peter Neal and I felt his look and acting style was perfect for his character and Spaghetti Western star Giuliano Gemma was even better as Inspector Germani. There is also some good support from American Actor John Saxon as Bullmer, Neal's agent and English John Steiner as suspicious journalist.
As with most of Argento's films we get to experience some pretty gory murder sequences, involving, Axes, Knifes, razor blades and in one case someone is strangled with a piece of rope. Its all great stuff, the most violent death occurs near the end of the film were a woman has her arm chopped off with a axe before been repeatably stabbed while she is lying on the floor dying.
The score by Argento's regular composers Goblin is very typical of their style and their fans will love it but I really didn't and felt that it didn't suit the film at all, except for the piece played over the flashback sequences which I thought was really good. I just wish he had stuck to using Ennio Morricone as he had done in his first movies.
Overall it may not be as good as his earlier work but with a good twist at the end its well worth watching.
Arrow once again release a classic, with great picture quality and some interesting extras aswell.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
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4.7 out of 5 stars
7 reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Blu Ray
8 Nov 2011
By JD
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
Apparently the other person that reviewed this does not own the Blu Ray because this is the uncut 110 minute version!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
My gamble paid off beautifully...
27 Jan 2012
By Michael A. Corneiller
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Blu-ray
If you are reading this, you're already familiar with this classic masterpiece.
What I didn't know before I gambled and purchased the Blu-ray version of PHENOMENA (originally titled CREEPERS), I know now and would like to share with prospective buyers:
Yes, this is the extended version (110 minutes)
Yes, it plays on my Region 1 Blu-ray player
Yes, the picture is magnificent.
If you love this film, as I do, THIS is the copy to own.
Enjoy.
What I didn't know before I gambled and purchased the Blu-ray version of PHENOMENA (originally titled CREEPERS), I know now and would like to share with prospective buyers:
Yes, this is the extended version (110 minutes)
Yes, it plays on my Region 1 Blu-ray player
Yes, the picture is magnificent.
If you love this film, as I do, THIS is the copy to own.
Enjoy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Typical but well done Argento flick
24 April 2012
By Larry L. Hoffman
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
For those familiar with the filmmaker, the overall atmosphere, plot and musical score will be instantly recognizable. It's a bit weak in some areas like sound editing, but the acting and development of the movie helped compensate for such flaws. If you're a Jennifer Connelly fan, you'll enjoy seeing her as a very young actress.
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