Trivia / Tenebre

• Completely Different Title:
  • Bulgaria: Madness
  • Finland: Fear Cannot Be Escaped
  • Greece: The Paranoid Killer
  • Russia: Shiver
  • Serbia: Insanity
  • Turkey: Voice of Death
  • United States (first release): Unsane
• Fake Nationality: Berti (Italian) is played by John Steiner (British), and Maria (also Italian) is played by Lara Wendel (German).
• The Foreign Subtitle:
  • Germany: Tenebre: The Cold Breath of Death
  • Mexico: Tenebre (The Pleasure of Fear)
• What Could Have Been: Christopher Walken was considered for the lead role.
• Word of God: According to Dario Argento, the film is set 20 Minutes in the Future, after an unspecified disaster has wiped out a large portion of the population, which is why everyone lives in spacious, futuristic-looking houses. None of this is alluded to or even hinted at in the film proper.
• Write What You Know: Dario Argento was inspired by a real-life stalking incident with an obsessed fan.

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