TheRetroCritic

Going through a Dario Argento phase it seems. I started watching/re-watching the director's 'classics' the other week starting with the goofy but completely enjoyable Phenomena . And now it's Tenebrae 's turn. Well, no apes this time I'm afraid. This one sees a writer being stalked by a serial killer who keeps getting rid of young ladies all over town in increasingly creative ways. It's a somewhat self-involved whodunit with the semblance of a plot and some inventive camerawork. That's pretty much it. Oh, and the usual mix of shattered glass and breasts thrown in, of course. I think one of the reasons why Tenebrae is so hard to warm up to as a movie is that you don't really get a main character. You don't really get one person you can get behind and follow through the whole thing. Peter Neal's writer is our beacon keeping the plot afloat, for sure, but he's not interesting, he has little personality and his scenes tend to drag