So while we're on the topic of Argento, I just recently watched
Tenebre (I was inspired by V's Top 100 Sub-Genre Horror Movies List).
My first impression: What's so great, wonderful, and iconic about Tenebre?
- I found it to be incredibly derivitive of any and all slashers that have come before (Halloween, Black Christmas, Psycho).
- The music was overpowering to the point of being obtrusive yet funny, comic, and parody, as opposed to dramatic or moody.
- The writing and acting were terrible.
- The sound - Again, I felt as though I was watching a poorly-dubbed foreign film.
- Contrived - The ending, as well as some of the plot devices (the reveal of the killer as well as the girl being conveniently driven into the killer's domain) seemed incredibly incongruous, abstract, random, and out of context; but not in a good way.
So I know that there are some Argento fans out there and I
know that there are fans specifically of Tenebre (hence why and how it made it into V's top 100 list). My question is,
Why? What am I missing? How and why is this movie an important volume in horror movie history?
What do
you like about this film, personally? And, in a more acedemic sense, what makes this movie iconic?