Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir #90: Tenebre

Genre: Horror/Horreur

Annee/Year: 1982

Format: DVD

Tenebre (aka Tenebrae, Unsane). This is my first exploration into the horror mind of Dario Dargento a most celebrated director from Italy. He has so many films to his credit it is impressive. His best known work being Suspiria.

Here we reviewed Tenebre which is the title of a murder book written by Peter Neal, an american writer visiting Rome; role played by Anthony Franchiosa. A series of gruesome and visually bloody murders is being played out in Rome following some influence from the book of this author. A number of people are suspected but the plot tightens around our writer being in the center of it all.

Dargento shows a great sense of cinematography and the style he uses for shooting is his own classic form. Some suspence, a bit of nudity, gruesome kill scenes but nothing supernatural; this movie is more about becoming insane and murderous than actual out of this world horror.
A classic movie which has aged obvisouly since 1982; but great cinematography with a good cast from italian comedians. Gotta see.

Ce film est ma première excursion dans le monde fantastique de Dario Dargento; un directeur Italien reconnu (il a participe a l'écriture de il était une fois dans l'ouest et a dirigé Suspiria son plus grand succès) ce film date un peu aujourd'hui, car il a presque trente ans, mais il garde toujours sa magie. Une bonne distribution d'acteurs italiens reconnus et une cinématographie plus qu'intéressante en font un film digne d'attention à ce jour. Faut voir pour les amateurs de film Hitchcokien.

Great quotes:

[First lines] Narrator: "The impulse had become irresistible. There was only one answer to the fury that tortured him. And so he committed his first act of murder. He had broken the most deep-rooted taboo, and found not guilt, not anxiety or fear, but freedom. Any humiliation which stood in his way could be swept aside by the simple act of annihilation: Murder."
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Peter Neal: I've been charged, I've tried building a plot the same way you have. I've tried to figure it out; but, I just have this hunch that something is missing, a tiny piece of the jigsaw. Somebody who should be dead is alive, or somebody who should be alive is already dead.
Detective Germani: Explain that.
Peter Neal: You know, there's a sentence in a Conan Doyle book, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."


Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084777/fullcredits

Rating perso: 7.5/10