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Tenebrae

#1 Post by TonyleStephanois » Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:00 am

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Terror Beyond Belief!

A notorious horror classic returns in all its depraved glory. This infamous video nasty updated the classic Giallo blueprint for the gorified 80s, courting controversy and drenching the viewer in crimson arterial spray.

A razor-wielding psycho is stalking the horror writer Peter Neal, in Rome to promote his latest work, Tenebre. But the author isn’t the obsessive killer’s only target, the beautiful women who surround him are doomed as one by one, they fall victim to the murderer’s slashing blade…

Will fiction and reality blur as fear and madness take hold? Watch in terror as by turns the cast fall victim to the sadistic imagination of Dario Argento, Italy’s master of horror.

CONTENTS
  • Newly remastered High Definition digital transfer of the film
  • Presented in High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD
  • Optional original English & Italian Mono Audio tracks (uncompressed PCM Mono 2.0 Audio on the Blu-ray)
  • Optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English SDH subtitles for English audio for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Audio Commentary with authors and critics Kim Newman and Alan Jones
  • Audio Commentary with Argento expert Thomas Rostock
  • Introduction by star Daria Nicolodi
  • The Unsane World of Tenebrae: An interview with director Dario Argento
  • Screaming Queen! Daria Nicolodi remembers Tenebrae
  • A Composition for Carnage: Composer Claudio Simonetti on Tenebrae
  • Goblin: ‘Tenebrae’ and ‘Phenomena’ Live from the Glasgow Arches
  • Brand new interview with Maitland McDonagh, author of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento
  • Original Trailer
  • Reversible Sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx

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Re: Arrow Films

#2 Post by Finch » Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:35 pm

Argento fans may want to think twice about ordering the Arrow Tenebrae.

French Blu / Arrow

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#3 Post by TMDaines » Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:57 pm

I almost think something's gone wrong with the screen capture process as that is beyond awful.

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#4 Post by zedz » Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:57 pm

Uh-oh, looks like the film has undergone the full digital chemical peel.

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#5 Post by knives » Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:07 pm

What's wrong with her face? It looks so digital and gross.

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Re: Arrow Films

#6 Post by Finch » Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:10 pm

The same company that provided Arrow with the HD master for Tenebrae also supplied Blue Underground with masters for their worst reviewed discs (Django, City of the Living Dead etc) so, for once, it doesn't seem to be the sole fault of Arrow. All the same, the disc is a shocker if it's anything remotely like the screengrabs I linked to/pasted.

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#7 Post by Peacock » Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:53 pm

Looks like the same problem as the Cat of Nine Tails Blu.

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Re: Arrow Films

#8 Post by What A Disgrace » Fri Oct 18, 2013 1:25 pm

Apparently the Tenebrae Steelbook is a Zavvi exclusive?

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#9 Post by Forrest Taft » Fri Oct 18, 2013 3:50 pm

Yup

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#10 Post by MichaelB » Fri Oct 18, 2013 3:59 pm

According to Arrow, it wouldn't have happened at all without Zavvi's input - they wanted to redo Tenebrae ever since the possibility of getting their hands on a superior master became reality, but they couldn't crunch the numbers without that particular deal.

Hard though it is for sane people like us to believe, the specialist steelbook market is massive. In fact, I think it's actually growing while the market for optical media in general is decidedly shrinking.

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Re: Arrow Films

#11 Post by Matt » Fri Oct 18, 2013 4:55 pm

Perkins Cobb wrote:So the logical outcome will be a future in which people buy empty steelbooks to park on the shelf next to their TV while they stream the movie over the internet.
That's not too much different from the people who currently buy music on vinyl (to have an "artifact" and to support the artist) but listen to music almost exclusively via their phones.

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Re: Arrow Films

#12 Post by Perkins Cobb » Fri Oct 18, 2013 5:13 pm

Well, at least they're committed to completely doing it wrong. Like, if you streamed the movie because you didn't care about physical packaging, or if you spent extra for the stupid steelbook but were also seeking the quality of Blu-ray, either of those things would be at least halfway defensible. And we wouldn't want that.

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Re: Tenebrae

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Re: Tenebrae

#14 Post by Finch » Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:04 am

Anyone had a dispatch notice for their preorder yet? Zavvi haven't responded to my query and I have to say considering that they are the only retailer who are getting this for the foreseeable future, I'm not impressed at all.

edit: apparently, the street date has been pushed back to December 23 as per Zavvi's page for Tenebrae (though in my order history, the expected shipping date still says December 16).

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Re: Tenebrae

#15 Post by Finch » Mon Dec 23, 2013 7:21 pm

Tenebrae looks very good indeed on the remastered disc. A far cry from the disastrous first disc. Enjoyed the Strickland appreciation and the rest of the booklet very much.

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Re: Tenebrae

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Re: Tenebrae

#17 Post by Boosmahn » Sun Nov 04, 2018 8:16 pm

Which version do you all prefer: Engish or Italian? I'm trying to decide which to watch first.

The two other giallo movies I've seen were divisive: Deep Red sounded fine in Italian, but I was distracted by some dubbing issues in Fulci's The Black Cat.

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Re: Tenebrae

#18 Post by Big Ben » Sun Nov 04, 2018 8:47 pm

I liked it well enough in English. Most of the cast spoke English and it was filmed that way and at least three of the leads voices were retained and were not dubbed by other actors. I felt it worked shockingly well despite Italy's dubbing obsession. It not being disorienting is certainly something I can praise it for right?

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#19 Post by Boosmahn » Sun Nov 04, 2018 10:38 pm

Thanks for the reply. I'm sure that as I watch more giallo, I'll acquire a taste for one language or the other.

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Re: Tenebrae

#20 Post by Morbii » Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:49 am

Argento’s films tend to survive English fairly well, save the German speaker in Suspiria (and maybe one or two other places I’m not recalling).

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Re: Tenebrae

#21 Post by DRW.mov » Mon Nov 05, 2018 2:02 pm

The English dub of Tenebre is actually fantastic. Daria Niccoldi’s character is dubbed by Theresea Russell of all people.

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