New Blu-ray

Having stepped away from the giallo genre for nearly five years, a genre he as much as anyone helped to fashion with films such as The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), The Cat o’ Nine Tails (1971), Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971), and Deep Red (1975), Dario Argento returned to his founding form with Tenebrae. As biographer Alan Jones notes, this 1982 film is a “synthesis of Argento’s most popular motifs—black-gloved assassins, a writer impotently trapped in Rome, perverse chromosomal make-up, the something-not-quite-right flashback—combined with his flair for outrageous set pieces and jaw-dropping gore.” While his more fantastic films are still quite good (“fantastic” being Argento’s own word for the likes of Suspiria [1977] and Inferno [1980]), and Suspiria may actually be his best movie, there is with Tenebrae a sense of homecoming, of bringing all he had accomplished, all that he was best known for (for better or worse), and enhancing the entire package. http://www.cutprintfilm.com/blu/new-blu-ray-tenebrae/