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Directed
by: Mario
Caiano
Written
by: Mario
Caiano & Fabio De
Agostini
Starring:
Barbara Steele ....
Muriel / Jenny Arrowsmith
Paul Muller .... Dr.
Stephen Arrowsmith
Helga Line .... Solagne
Laurence Clift .... Dr.
Derek Joyce
Rik Battaglia .... DavidRelease
Date: Theatrical:
July 16, 1965 (Italy);
June 5, 1966 (France);
July 5, 1966 (USA)
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An
evil count named Dr. Stephen
Arrowsmith (Paul Muller) catches
his wife Jenny (Barbara Steele)
cheating on another man named
David (Rik Battaglia).
He tortures and electrocutes both
of them to death and removes
their hearts from their bodies.
Years later he remarries a woman
identical to his late last wife
named Muriel and she goes into
trances and experiences
nightmares and hauntings of
Jenny.
Then Jenny seemingly posessed
Muriel's body and tries to kill
the count for what he did to her.
He hires a shrink named Dr. Derek
Joyce (Laurence Clift) to try and
cure her from all of this but he
thinks that he is way too
invovled with her and has deadly
plans for him as well.
This was a very
interesting B&W Italian
horror film that seemed almost
promising at first but duriing
the middle of it the film gets
really boering with the
dialgogues between the cast. Plus
the audio is off on the actors.
It picks up towards the end and
boy does it ever and the film can
be very influential.
We have some nice
performers in this film but the
one who was the best out of all
of this is UK celebrity Barbara
Steele playing two
characters in the film and
pulling it off well. She knows
how to portray both someone evil
and someone frightened too.
Paul Muller is
fairly good as an insane doctor
and has good serious attitude.
Helga Line also did well
playing his assistant and shows
nice intensity too.
However, supporting actor
Laurence Clift did not have
me convinced playing a shrink in
the film as he seemed fairly
wooden.
There is someone's
heart in a small water tank.
A ghosts face is half sliced off
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Mario
Caiano is very wooden with
his work during most scenes of
this movie but however he does
pick up in some spots.
He knew how to direct both lead
actress Barbara Steele
and Rik Battaglia acting
lustful towards one another by
touching and feeling one another.
There's a real disturbing and
intense scene's involving Paul
Muller torturing these two
as well as electrocuting them on
a bed.
We see a perfect camera shot on Steele
lying in bed and the clock
chiming then the camera focuses
on her paranoid eyes going into a
trance which looks incredibly
eerie (This footage was also used
in shock rocker King
Diamond's video
"Sleepless Nights")
He also made sure that Muller
showed great serious and evil
expressions to his character
making him insane.
He also shows great dialogue
between both Muller and Steele
when Steele is tempted
to leave the castle but Muller
sweettalks her into staying as
it's a very dramatic moment.
He also shows perfect fright with
Steele having an
expressionless look walking
towards Steele almost
killing him with a dissecting
knife.
The most chilling part was close
to the end of the film with both
Steele and Battaglia portraying
as ghosts creating terror in the
castle saving this film from
going below average.
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Ennio Morricone
really knew his craft as a
composer which saves this film
too from going under. He has
perfect timing with his creepy
organ playing as well as some
nice smooth classical piano
playing plus he has nice sharp
violin sounds to the film as
well.
The
German DVD Features:
- Animated
Menus
- Direct
Scene Access
- Original
Movie Trailer
- Movie Lobby
Poster
- Trivia Quiz
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