TENEBRAE

TAG LINE : TERROR BEYOND BELIEF!

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CATORGRY NUMBER : HVM 1032

RUNTIME : 96 MINUTES 48 SECONDS

AKA : TENEBRE AND UNSANE

DIRECTOR : DARIO ARGENTO

COUNTRY : ITALY

YEAR : 1982

STARRING : ANTHONY FRANCIOSA, CHRISTIAN BORROMEO, MIRELLA D'ANGELO AND JOHN STEIGER

REVIEW

The least rare of the 39 banned nasties, and as a result, very easy to get hold of. From director Dario Argento, this is actually not a bad thriller.

The story follows a writer, Peter Neal, who travels to Rome to promote his latest novel. Here, he finds that someone is committing murders, apparently using his novel as the inspiration for the killings. As the number of deaths escalate, the rozzers start to turn the finger of suspicion to the writer.

The film contains plenty of gore, as the crazed killer goes around butchering folk, armed with axes, razors and the like, as the camera sequences work quite nicely. The murder-mystery type tale finally ends in a bloody climax, where we get to see the infamous scene involving the blood spurting stump!

WRITTEN BY TONY FRIZZELL

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