Tenebrae

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Tenebrae

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1h 40m,

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Visiting Rome on a promotional tour for his new novel, writer Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) is pulled into a murder mystery as someone familiar with his work begins a series of killings. While the police look into the crimes, Neal investigates on his own, aided by his beautiful assistant, Anne (Daria Nicolodi), and a tenacious young local named Gianni (Christian Borromeo). As the murderer brutally dispatches of other victims, Neal gets closer to discovering the psychopath's identity.

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Jun 24, 2006

Unpleasant even by contemporary horror standards.

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

Dec 4, 2001

4/4

Tenebre is a brilliant piece of self-reflexive cinema.

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Max Allen

Horror Movie Talk

Dec 4, 2025

8/10

The movie does a great job at misdirecting your focus and creates a web of motives for everyone involved until you are sure the killer is definitely this person! Only for that person to die in the very next scene.

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Maitland McDonagh

MaitlandOnMovies (Substack)

Jul 11, 2025

Argento fashions a shifty, misleading piece of storytelling, one that pivots in a huge way two-thirds through.... [The movie's] outwardly neat and tidy world is no such thing. Its sleek and shiny surface lies lightly over a world of bloody chaos.

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Nov 16, 2024

... Argento has always been more concerned with style than story and his execution of the crimes is pure cinematic bravura.

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Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

Oct 16, 2023

3/4

The mystery is compelling, the horror is effective, and the visual style is captivating.

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Finn W

Jul 28, 2018

Outstanding a must see!

George S

Oct 31, 2017

I'll be watching this one again and again.

Kylo M

Oct 21, 2017

Another meticulously made Giallo film, and normally regarded as Dario Argentos final great film, Tenebre is complete with the usual elements of Argentos, along with an intriguing premise, a great shock ending, and buckets of blood filmed in his usual beautiful style, making this yet another link in his mighty chain of giallos

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Luke S

Feb 13, 2017

Not just one of Dario Argentos greatest films but also,in my view,the greatest Italian "Giallo" horror film of all time "Tenebrae" is one of the most terrifying and brilliant horror films of the eighties.

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Anakin R

Jan 18, 2017

Another fantastic and gorgeous giallo from Argento. One can say that thematically there are some cheap tricks pulled, but it's for the purpose of style. And this movie is beautifully constructed. Up there with his best.

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Theodore W

Jan 7, 2012

Another selection from the heyday of Argento that I had somehow never watched before, I was able to get into this during a recent Halloween marathon. I really loved this one, it's kind of up there with films of the same era like Deep Red and Suspiria as far as my top Argento titles would go. A novelist finds himself embroiled in a series of brutal murders when he travels to Rome to promote his latest novel, and boy are you in for a ride. Recommended.

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Synopsis

Visiting Rome on a promotional tour for his new novel, writer Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) is pulled into a murder mystery as someone familiar with his work begins a series of killings. While the police look into the crimes, Neal investigates on his own, aided by his beautiful assistant, Anne (Daria Nicolodi), and a tenacious young local named Gianni (Christian Borromeo). As the murderer brutally dispatches of other victims, Neal gets closer to discovering the psychopath's identity.

Director: Dario Argento
Producer: Claudio Argento
Screenwriter: Dario Argento, George Kemp
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 27, 2019
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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