[Kill of the Week] Hacked With an Axe in Argento’s ‘Tenebrae’
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Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.
The discovery of Suspiria led me to dive deep into the filmography of Dario Argento in my teenage years, which of course brought a handful of gems into my world. On the heels of Suspiria and Inferno, Argento released one such gem, Tenebrae (or Tenebre, if you prefer) in 1982, an Italian Giallo film that most consider to be one of his best.
Without giving away too many plot details for those who haven’t yet seen it, Tenebrae centers on Peter Neal, an American horror writer who arrives in Italy to discover that a mysterious killer, inspired by Neal’s own books, has recently embarked on a murder spree.
Like all of Argento’s films, Tenebrae is home to some memorable sequences of bloodshed, and the one that made the biggest impression on me involves an axe and an arm. Jane, Peter Neal’s ex-wife, is brutally murdered in her home by the killer, who slams an axe through her window… then straight through her arm… and then into her back.
There’s something decidedly unrealistic about the effects work, in hindsight, but the image of Jane’s stump spewing arterial spray all over the walls of her home is one that I’ve never quite been able to get out of my head; Quentin Tarantino would tell you the same thing, I can only assume, as Kill Bill features a very similar moment of gory arm trauma.
Typical for Argento, the murder of Jane isn’t just a cool kill scene, it’s a work of art.
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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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