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Director:
Writer:
Dario Argento (writer)
Release Date:
February 1987 (USA)
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Tagline:
Terror Beyond Belief more
Plot:
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book. full summary | full synopsis
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region Blu-ray Disc Report: "Suspiria" (Dario Argento, 1976)
(From The Auteurs. 9 February 2010, 6:55 AM, PST)
Serious Scores: Goblin
(From Cinematical. 30 November 2009, 12:45 PM, PST)
(From The Auteurs. 9 February 2010, 6:55 AM, PST)
Serious Scores: Goblin
(From Cinematical. 30 November 2009, 12:45 PM, PST)
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One of Argento's best.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Anthony Franciosa | ... | Peter Neal | |
| Christian Borromeo | ... | Gianni | |
| Mirella D'Angelo | ... | Tilde | |
| Veronica Lario | ... | Jane McKerrow | |
| Ania Pieroni | ... | Elsa Manni | |
| Eva Robin's | ... | Girl on Beach (as Eva Robins) | |
| Carola Stagnaro | ... | Detective Altieri | |
| John Steiner | ... | Christiano Berti | |
| Lara Wendel | ... | Maria Alboretto | |
| John Saxon | ... | Bullmer | |
| Daria Nicolodi | ... | Anne | |
| Giuliano Gemma | ... | Detective Germani | |
| Isabella Amadeo | ... | Bullmer's secretary | |
| Mirella Banti | ... | Marion | |
| Ennio Girolami | ... | Department Store Manager (as Enio Girolami) |
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Runtime:
110 min | USA:91 min (edited version) | 101 min (director's cut)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:M |
New Zealand:R16 |
West Germany:18 (cut) |
Sweden:(Banned) |
Italy:T (edited TV version) |
Argentina:X (original rating) |
Argentina:18 (re-rating) |
Canada:16+ (Quebec) |
Sweden:15 |
Australia:R |
Canada:R |
France:-16 |
Germany:16 (cut version: 2002) |
Italy:VM18 |
Spain:18 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
USA:Unrated (director's cut) |
West Germany:(Banned) |
Netherlands:12 (DVD rating) |
Iceland:(Banned) |
Finland:K-18 (2005) (uncut) |
Finland:K-18 (1988) (cut) |
Germany:BPjM Restricted
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The films poster shows an image of a woman with her throat cut. The UK release attempted to censor the violent image by placing a red bow around the neck in the image!
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Revealing mistakes: During the pre-credit sequence where the killer is reading the book. On long shots the writing is in Italian, but on the close up shots, its in English.
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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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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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Referenced in The Devil's Muse (2007)
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Soundtrack:
Take Me Tonight
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I first saw Tenebr(a)e under the moniker "Unsane" (which is supposedly missing ten minutes of gore and some extensive camera-work). I really enjoyed the film, so I bought the rerelease print from Anchor Bay, and I must say, the restored, uncut, letterboxed print looks and sounds wonderful.
There's no need to go into the plot other than to say Anthony Franciosa stars as American horror novelist Peter Neal and, while he's in Rome on a book tour, murders are being committed by one of his crazed fans. I read somewhere that Argento is king of stringing together a plot and cheating audiences just so they can't guess the identity of the killer, and with this as evidence, I agree 100%. It's nearly impossible to figure out this plot before it's fully explained.
Luciano Tovoli's camera-work/cinematography is brilliant, especially the luma crane shot (which goes up one side of a building, over the roof and down the other side in one unbroken taken). There's also an extremely well-photographed and directed sequence featuring a girl being pursued by a rabid Doberman. Now they would do those two scenes with computers, and I think that obliterates the charm of the hands-on film-making process.
In short, this film puts Hollywood thrillers like "Copycat" "The Bone Collector," and "Se7en" to shame, and it's apparent all three films stole ideas from this one (and from other films in Argento's oeuvre).