Beautiful Ania Pieroni can be seen in the first killing of the movie and she may be
better known for playing Mater Lachrymarum (The Mother of Tears) in "Inferno".
She was the one with the cat in the music conservatory, one of my favourite
scenes ever from Dario Argento, and with the great music of Verdi too

Masterful and Violent giallo shot exquisitely by cinematographer Luciano Tovoli

Dario Argento's alter ego (?) the writer of violent and bloody crime novels, Peter
Neal (Anthony Franciosa) arrives to Rome on a publicity trip for his new book.
Soon Rome is plagued by violent killings by a serial killer and the crimes obviously
are inspired by the fictive crimes committed in his books, and the killer seems to
be close to Neal.

This great giallo has some classic and gruesome scenes as: The Double murder
after the long dolly shot, the Dobermann attack, Eva Robins with her red shoe
and the spraypainting of the wall by Veronica Lario.
From the time when the visual genius of Dario Argento still possessed it's full power.

My perception of what watching film would be was smashed into smithereens
after watching Suspiria for the first time in 1978. I had never seen anything like it.
Then in the 1980's the hunt was on, the hunt for uncut Argento movies on VHS
all over Europe and in the US. In a rental store in Athens, Greece, i bought Opera
(as Terror at the Opera) in 1989. Yes, it was very overpriced but everyone of my
friends watching it was in awe.

When visiting Brussels in 1988 or so, I bought Tenebrae from another rental store
and I watched it also in awe even though the film was dubbed into french and
without any english subtitles.
Today no films are cut in Sweden but back then Sweden had one of the worlds
most strict Film Censoring (when released in the US as "Unsane" it was cut by
some 20 minutes).

US Synapse 4K UHD Blu-ray 2 disc edition presents the film in 1.85:1 widescreen
with DTS-HD MA english or Italian 2.0 mono audio with english suba. Extras:

Audio commentary by Alan Jones and Kim Newman,
Audio commentary by Argento expert Thomas Rostock
Audio commentary by author Maitland McDonagh
Yellow Fever: The Rise and fall of the Giallo: Feature length documentary
Being the Villain: Interview with actor John Steiner
Out of the Shadows: archival interview with Maitland McDonagh
Voices of the Unsane: interview with Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Eva Robins,
cinematographer Luciano Tovoli, Claudio Simonetti and Lamberto Bava
Screaming Queen: interview with Daria Nicolodi
The Unsane World of Tenebrae: archival interview with Dario Argento
A Composition for Carnage: interview with composer Claudio Simonetti
Introduction by Daria Nicolodi, International trailer, Japanese trailer,
Alternate opening credits sequence, "Unsane" end credits sequence,
Image galleries

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Above: The old US Anchor Bay DVD edition
with anamorphic widescreen 1.85:1 and 5.1 or 2.0 english audio (the
italian dub without subtitles). Extras:
Audio commentary with Dario Argento, Claudio Simonetti and the
journalist Loris Curci (in english), Featurette "Voices of the Unsane"
with Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Luciano Tovoli, Eva Robins
(17 minutes, Anchor Bay 2008), The Roving Camera Eye of Dario
Argento, Creating the Sounds of Terror, Alternate end credit music
Trailer and a Biography Argento

Funny to hear Daria Nicolodi lamenting that the beautiful Veronica
Lario married "That Scoundrel" Berlusconi, and Dario believed
that Tenebrae was cut to pieces also in Italy due to the fact that
Veronica Lario died so spectacular and Berlusconi's influence