Dario Argento's Tenebrae Releases on 4K from Synapse Films
4K UHD Releases | Sep 26, 2023
On September 26th, 2023, Synapse Films releases Dario Argento’s Tenebrae on 4K UHD from a new 4K restoration created with the original camera negative. Tenebrae is presented in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) with its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio and restored original DTS-HD MA lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks, along with English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack.
In Dario Argento’s Tenebrae, mystery writer Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) is promoting his newest novel Tenebrae, just as a serial killer begins to murder their victims in the very manner Neal describes in his book. As those around him are being killed one by one and police start suspecting Neal, the author must hunt down the murderer himself before he’s either killed himself or framed for the horrible crimes. Featuring performances by Franciosa, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi and John Steiner, Tenebrae is an all-star murder mystery not to be missed, with Argento at his very best.
The two disc 4K UHD + Blu-ray set features an audio commentary by authors and critics Alan Jones and Kim Newman; an audio commentary by Argento expert Thomas Rostock; an audio commentary by Maitland McDonagh, author of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento; Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo, a feature-length documentary charting the genre from its beginnings to its influence on modern slasher films, featuring interviews with Dario Argento, Umberto Lenzi, Luigi Cozzi and more; Being the Villain, a newly edited archival interview with actor John Steiner; Out of the Shadows, an archival interview with Maitland McDonagh; Voices of the Unsane, an archival featurette containing interviews with writer/director Dario Argento, actresses Daria Nicolodi and Eva Robins, cinematographer Luciano Tovoli, composer Claudio Simonetti and assistant director Lamberto Bava; Screaming Queen, an archival interview with Daria Nicolodi; The Unsane World of Tenebrae, an archival interview with Dario Argento; A Composition for Carnage, an archival interview with Claudio Simonetti; an archival introduction by Daria Nicolodi; an international theatrical trailer; a Japanese “Shadow” theatrical trailer; an alternate opening credits sequence; “Unsane” end credits sequence; and image galleries.