 By the time Argento made Tenebrae , he had become the acknowledged master of the genre , to the point where he felt confident enough to be openly self @-@ referential to his own past , referencing the " reckless driving humor " from The Cat o ' Nine Tails ( 1971 ) and the hero from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage . The scene in which Veronica Lario 's character , Jane , returns home directly references The Bird with the Crystal Plumage with its large sculpture in the entrance hallway . 
