Unsane
Tenebre

Also Known As: Shadow (1982), Sotto gli occhi dell'assassino (1982), Tenebrae (1982)

1982 Color

The impulse had become the 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 guilty,not anxiety or fear but freedom. Every humiliation which stood in his way could be swept away by the simple act of annihilation: Murder. -from the novel Tenebrae,by Peter Neal

[STAFF]
Directed by: Dario Argento
Produced by:: Claudio Argento Sigma Cinematografica Roma
distributer : Titanus Intra Films
written by : Dario Argento, George Kemp
Cinematography by Luciano Tovoli
Music by : Massimo Morante, Fabio Pignatelli, Claudio Simonetti
Production Design by : Giuseppe Bassan
Costume Design by : Pierangelo Cicoletti
Film Editing by : Franco Fraticelli
Lamberto Bava .... first assistant director
Giovanni Corridori .... special effects
Pierantonio Mecacci .... make-up
Piero Mecacci .... make-up
Michele Soavi .... second assistant director

Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm
Cinematographic process Technovision
Printed film format 35 mm
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1
time : 101min

[CAST]
Anthony Franciosa .... Peter Neal
Christian Borromeo .... Gianni
Giuliano Gemma .... Detective Germani
Mirella D'Angelo .... Tilda
Veronica Lario .... Jane McKerrow
Ania Pieroni .... Prostitute
Eva Robins .... Girl on Beach
Carola Stagnaro .... Detective Altieri
John Steiner .... Cristiano Berti
Lara Wendel .... Maria
John Saxon .... Bullmer
Daria Nicolodi .... Anne
Isabella Amadeo
Mirella Banti
Enio Girolani
Monica Maisani
Marino Mase
Fulvio Mingozzi
Gianpaolo Saccarola
Ippolita Santarelli
Francesca Viscardi


[STORY]
An American writer of mystery and terror novels arrives in Italy (in Rome) on an invitation of his agent, for a series of promotional lectures. Almost immediately, however, he is involved in a sequence of long, dreadful homicides, where the victims are always and entirely young women massacred by axe or razor. Strange threatening phone calls seeming almost "ritualistic" and other strange facts wind the writer in a deadly web: the man then decides to hunt down the maniac with the help of his agent's child, his secretary and a young police commissioner, cultured and shrewd (which separates him from the investigation "officials").

The murderer sends the protagonist quotes from his books each time a new girl is murdered. However, hallucinations from the writer's past lead to the resolution of the mystery of who the true murderer is.



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