Tenebre's more of a straight giallo than other Argento movies, and Argento excels at Lovecraftian and postmodern gialli more than straight ones. He did so much with the genre that I think Tenebre was perhaps a little less inspired than his other work. If you want to compare gialli to westerns, I would call Opera and Inferno the work of a Sergio Leone, but Tenebre's pure John Ford.
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