Tenebre

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Main Details

  • Released in 1982
  • Color
  • Running Time: 110 min | Italy:96 min (Director's Cut) | USA:101 min (director's cut) | USA:91 min (edited version)
  • Production Co: Sigma Cinematografica Roma
  • Distribution Co: Atlas Film Verleih (1984) (West Germany) (theatrical) (heavily cut), Bedford Entertainment Inc. (1987) (USA) (theatrical) (as Unsane)
  • Directed by Dario Argento
  • Starring Anthony Franciosa, Christian Borromeo, Daria Nicolodi
  • Produced by Claudio Argento, Salvatore Argento
  • Original Music by Goblin (as Simonetti-Morante-Pignatelli)
  • Cinematography by Luciano Tovoli
  • Film Editing by Franco Fraticelli

Plot Summary

  • An American mystery novelist comes to Rome to promote his latest novel Tenebre. Soon after his arrival, a bizarre sequence of shocking homicides occur, resembling the murders in his book.

Also Known As

  • Tinieblas (Argentina/Spain)
  • Ölümün sesi (Turkey - video title) (Turkish title)
  • Inferno (Finland - Swedish title)
  • Pelkoa ei voi paeta (Finland)
  • Shadow (Japan - English title)
  • Shiadô (Japan)
  • Sotto gli occhi dell'assassino
  • Ténèbres (France)
  • Ténebre (Spain)
  • Tenebrae
  • Tenebre - Der kalte Hauch des Todes (Germany)
  • Under the Eyes of the Assassin
  • Unsane (USA)

Taglines

  • Terror Beyond Belief
  • A Descent Into Madness
  • Unrelenting terror from the maker of DEMONS, CREEPERS and SUSPIRIA!
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