Tenebrae

With Argento's trademark visual style, linked with one of his more coherent plots, Tenebrae follows a writer who arrives to Rome only to find somebody is using his novels as the inspiration (and, occasionally, the means) of committing murder. As the death toll mounts the police are ever baffled, and the writer becomes more closely linked to the case than is comfortable.

Continuing the tradition of annual anniversary retrospectives, Kino Bize dedicates its thirteenth year to the work of Dario Argento, who transformed the horror film genre, turning it into a space for aesthetic and psychological reflection. His works mark the borderline between popular genre and auteur cinema, where the experience of fear is created through plot and visual structure, space, and sound. Argento's style established the giallo genre as a visually and conceptually complex form of cinema, whose aesthetic influence is still present in the contemporary cinema.