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Tenebrae (film)
''Tenebrae'' (, also known as ''Tenebre'' and ''Unsane'') is a 1982 Italian ''giallo'' film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Anthony Franciosa as American author Peter Neal, who – while in Rome promoting his latest murder-mystery novel – becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who may have been inspired to kill by his novel. John Saxon and Daria Nicolodi co-star as Neal's agent and assistant respectively, while Giuliano Gemma and Carola Stagnaro appear as detectives investigating the murders. John Steiner, Veronica Lario, and Mirella D'Angelo also feature in minor roles. The film has been described as exploring themes of dualism and sexual aberration, and has strong metafictional elements; some commentators consider ''Tenebrae'' to be a direct reaction by Argento to criticism of his previous work, most especially his depictions of murders of women. After Argento had experimented with pure supernatural horror with 1977's ''Suspiria'' and 1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Casaro
Renato Casaro (; born 26 October 1935) is an Italian artist known for his movie posters, which include films like ''My Name Is Nobody'', ''Quadrophenia'', ''Conan the Barbarian'', ''Tenebrae'', ''Octopussy'', '' Never Say Never Again'', '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (Int'l Version), ''Red Sonja'' and '' Flesh and Blood''. He is considered one of the most important, influential and innovative Italian film poster artists. He has made hundreds of works dedicated to the cinema, becoming very popular abroad. He has also painted calendars, collectibles, book covers and album covers. Early life Renato Casaro was born on 26 October 1935 in Treviso. His early interest in posters reportedly began with movie advertisements. He would go every day to the cinema to see if they were changing the posters, and if they were he would ask if he could take them home where he would try to reproduce them. In 1953, at age 18, Renato found a job as a staff artist at Studio Favalli, a famous design and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella D'Angelo
Mirella D'Angelo (born 16 August 1956) is an Italian actress. Career Mirella D'Angelo has appeared in more than twenty films since 1974 and acted in television and theatre. She has appeared in a number of notable films including Le Guignolo with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Apartment Zero with Colin Firth, Caligula with Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, Dario Argento's Tenebrae and Federico Fellini's City of Women. Filmography Cinema *''Terminal'', directed by Paolo Breccia (1974) *''A Special Cop in Action'', directed by Marino Girolami (1976) *'' La tigre è ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa!'', directed by Sergio Sollima (1977) *'' Porca società'', directed by Luigi Russo (1978) *'' Il ritorno di Casanova'', directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile (1978) *''Caligula'', with Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, directed by Tinto Brass (1979) *'' C'est dingue... mais on y va'', directed by Michel Gerard (1979) *'' Turi and the Paladins'', directed by Angelo D'Alessandro (1979) *'' Lesson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
''The Bird with the Crystal Plumage'' () is a 1970 giallo film directed by Dario Argento, in his directorial debut. The film has been credited with popularizing giallo, an Italian genre of thriller developed in the 1960s. It is the first in what has been called the "Animal Trilogy", along with Argento's next two gialli, ''The Cat o' Nine Tails'' (1971) and ''Four Flies on Grey Velvet'' (1972) (though the three films are connected only by their titles). Written by Argento, the film borrowed liberally from Fredric Brown's novel '' The Screaming Mimi''. The film was an international commercial and critical success. Plot Sam Dalmas is an American writer vacationing in Rome with his English model girlfriend, Julia. Suffering from writer's block, Sam is on the verge of returning to America but witnesses the attack of a woman in an art gallery by a mysterious black-gloved assailant dressed in a raincoat. Attempting to reach her, Sam is trapped between two mechanically-operated glass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Warren (film Historian And Critic)
William Bond Warren (April 26, 1943 – October 7, 2016) was an American film historian, critic, and one of the leading authorities on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films. Early life and education Warren was born in North Bend, Oregon and grew up in Gardiner on the Umpqua River. He became interested in science fiction films during the genre's first boom period in the 1950s after seeing ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951). Discovering ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' with its first issues, he received regular acknowledgments and thanks as a contributor throughout the early years of the magazine, along with Don Glut, Eric Hoffman, and Mark Thomas McGee. After attending Reedsport High School, he graduated from the University of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon. Move to Los Angeles Warren and his wife Beverly moved to Los Angeles in 1966. As an assistant to science fiction agent, editor, and collector Forrest J Ackerman, Warren came into contact with major filmmakers-in-waitin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lara Wendel
Lara may refer to: Places * Lara (state), a state in Venezuela *Electoral district of Lara, an electoral district in Victoria, Australia * Lara, Antalya, an urban district in Turkey * Lara, Victoria, a township in Australia * Lara de los Infantes, a place in Spain * LARA, the airport code for Jacinto Lara International Airport, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela Personal name * Lara (mythology), a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo in Ovid's ''Fasti'' * Lara (name), can be a given name or a surname in several languages Art, entertainment, and media * ''Lara'' (film), 2019 film * Lara (character), the biological mother of the comic book character Superman * Lara (novel), 1997 novel-in-verse by Bernardine Evaristo * Lara & Reyes, an instrumental band * ''Lara's Theme'', the generic name given to a leitmotif written for the film ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965) by composer Maurice Jarre * ''Lara, A Tale'' (1814), a poem by Lord Byron Computing and technology * LaRa, a spacecraft inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Robins
Eva Robin's (born Roberto Coatti; 10 December 1958) is a transgender Italian actress, model, and activist from Bologna, Italy. Perhaps best known for her role in Dario Argento's 1982 giallo film ''Tenebrae''. Eva was assigned male at birth. From the age of about thirteen she says she felt she was female. When she was sixteen, she met a neighbor who was transgender and who introduced her to feminizing hormones. By the age of twenty-one she was living as a woman. Eva says she doesn't want sex reassignment surgery, saying she feels comfortable with her body and has no desire to change. Contrary to conflicting mentions, Eva currently does spell her last name with an apostrophe in it. She took her nom de plume from a character in Italy's ''Diabolik'' comics, Eva Kant, and writer Harold Robbins. While on holiday in Sardinia she saw the name "Robbins" spelled as "Robin's" and decided to take on that particular spelling. Filmography *'' La cerimonia dei sensi'' (1979) *'' Eva man (Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ania Pieroni
Ania Pieroni is a former Italian actress, known for ''The House by the Cemetery'' (1981), ''Tenebrae'' (1982) and ''Inferno'' (1980). Film career Pieroni started her film career by taking a small part in the 1978 Alberto Lattuada film ''Stay as You Are''. She also starred as a mysterious music student in the 1980 horror film ''Inferno'' by Dario Argento, and worked with him again playing a shoplifter in ''Tenebrae'' two years later. Her most famous role however was in the 1981 Lucio Fulci film ''The House by the Cemetery'' as the ill-fated babysitter Ann. Her last film was ''Fracchia contro Dracula'', released in 1985. Pieroni was offered to reprise the role of Mater Lachrymarum in Argento's 2007 film ''The Mother of Tears'', but turned it down. From 1985 to 1991, she was the director for a local TV station called GBR. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pieroni, Ania 20th-century Italian actresses Italian film actresses Living people 1957 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Borromeo
Christian Borromeo is a retired Italian actor. He made several feature films, perhaps best known for Ruggero Deodato's '' The House on the Edge of the Park'', and Dario Argento's ''Tenebrae''. Career Borromeo began his career with a part in the Italian fil''Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga''in 1976. Then he went on to star as 'Germano' in the 1979 erotic comed''Ups and Downs of a Super Stud''''(Pensione Amore Servizio Completo)'' directed bLuigi Russo In 1980, he starred in Ruggero Deodato's ensemble-thriller '' The House on the Edge of the Park'', and in 1982 he also played a brief, but major supporting part in Dario Argento's giallo- slasher ''Tenebrae'', and the same year also managed to play the part of 'Lotario' i''Ehrengard''by director Emidio Greco. He effectively ended his acting career in 1997, with his last movie-appearance in the TV-movi''Inquietudine'' Selected filmography * ''Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga'' (1976) - Stefano * ''Quella s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States by population, seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents 2020 United States census, as of 2020, but it is the List of U.S. states by population density, second-most densely populated after New Jersey. It takes its name from Aquidneck Island, the eponymous island, though most of its land area is on the mainland. Rhode Island borders Connecticut to the west; Massachusetts to the north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to the south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound. It also shares a small maritime border with New York (state), New York. Providence, Rhode Island, Providence is its capital and most populous city. Native Americans lived around Narragansett Bay for thousands of years before English settler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Nasty
Video nasty is a colloquial term popularised by the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (NVALA) in the United Kingdom to refer to a number of films, typically low-budget horror or exploitation films, distributed on video cassette that were criticised for their violent content by the press, social commentators and various religious organisations in the early 1980s. These video releases were not brought before the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) due to a loophole in film classification laws that allowed videos to bypass the review process. The resulting uncensored video releases led to public debate concerning the availability of these films to children due to the unregulated nature of the market. Following a campaign led by Mary Whitehouse and the NVALA, prosecutions were commenced against individuals engaged in trades exploiting allegedly obscene videos. To assist local authorities in identifying obscene films, the Director of Public Prosecutions released a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goblin (band)
Goblin (also Back to the Goblin, New Goblin, Goblin Rebirth, the Goblin Keys, the Goblins and Claudio Simonetti's Goblin) is an Italian progressive rock band known for their film scores. They frequently collaborate with Dario Argento, most notably creating the scores for ''Profondo Rosso'' in 1975 and ''Suspiria'' in 1977. Because their collaborator Dario Argento specializes in creating horror, suspense and slasher/giallo genre movies, scores made by Goblin in these movies often had eerie and ominous tones. CD re-releases of their scores have performed well, especially in Germany and Japan. Goblin returned with a series of live concerts in Europe in 2009 and in North America in 2013. Initially recording as Cherry Five (they had done some live shows as Oliver), their early work spawned one eponymous progressive rock record, and they were then called in to compose the score for ''Profondo Rosso''. The band changed their name to Goblin, rewriting most of the score, originally writt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inferno (1980 Film)
''Inferno'' is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento, and starring Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi and Alida Valli. The plot follows a young man's investigation into the disappearance of his sister, who had been living in a New York City apartment building that also served as a home for a powerful, centuries-old witch. The cinematography was by Romano Albani, and Keith Emerson composed the film's musical score. A thematic sequel to ''Suspiria'' (1977), the film is the second installment of Argento's Three Mothers trilogy, though it is the first in the trilogy to explore the idea of the Three Mothers. The long-delayed concluding entry, ''The Mother of Tears'', was released in 2007. All three films are partially derived from Thomas de Quincey's 1845 work ''Suspiria de Profundis'', a collection of prose poetry in which he proposes the concept of three "Ladies of Sorrow" (Mater Lachrymarum, Mater Suspiriorum and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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