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1. The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)

110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde.

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Patrick Dewaere, Lia Tanzi

Votes: 1,054

2. Black Sunday (1960)

Approved | 87 min | Horror

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani

Votes: 17,621

3. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)

76 min | Horror

In 1897 London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances - and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor.

Director: Riccardo Freda | Stars: Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Silvano Tranquilli, Maria Teresa Vianello

Votes: 1,926

4. Hotel Fear (1978)

92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A mother and her daughter run a hotel during the late stages of WWII. The mother suddenly dies, and the daughter finds herself alone with her sleazy guests.

Director: Francesco Barilli | Stars: Luc Merenda, Leonora Fani, Francisco Rabal, Jole Fierro

Votes: 924

5. Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)

GP | 83 min | Horror, Mystery

A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali, Piero Lulli

Votes: 7,600

6. Castle of Blood (1964)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror

A journalist takes a bet that he can spend the night in a haunted castle on All Hallow's Eve. During his stay, he bears witness to the castle's gruesome past coming to life before him, and falls in love with a beautiful female ghost.

Directors: Antonio Margheriti, Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Barbara Steele, Georges Rivière, Margrete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici

Votes: 2,791

7. The House with Laughing Windows (1976)

110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.

Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani

Votes: 5,983

8. The Whip and the Body (1963)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Romance

The ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorized, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly betrothed to his brother.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall, Ida Galli

Votes: 4,672

9. An Angel for Satan (1966)

Approved | 90 min | Horror, Mystery

At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake, an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction .

Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Barbara Steele, Anthony Steffen, Claudio Gora, Mario Brega

Votes: 1,043

10. The Devil's Wedding Night (1973)

R | 83 min | Horror

Lady Dracula uses Dracula's ring to lure beautiful girls to her castle, where she murders them so she can bathe in their blood.

Directors: Luigi Batzella, Joe D'Amato | Stars: Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, Esmeralda Barros, Enza Sbordone

Votes: 1,039

11. Mill of the Stone Women (1960)

Approved | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In 19th century Holland, a professor of fine arts and an unlicensed surgeon run a secret lab where the professor's ill daughter receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become macabre art.

Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Wolfgang Preiss, Dany Carrel

Votes: 2,093

12. The Reincarnation of Isabel (1973)

Unrated | 98 min | Horror

A group of vampires keep the body of a witch in a castle cellar. They require virgin blood to resurrect her. A party of people arrive and things kick off.

Director: Renato Polselli | Stars: Mickey Hargitay, Rita Calderoni, Raul Lovecchio, Christa Barrymore

Votes: 1,016

13. The Wax Mask (1997)

Unrated | 98 min | Horror

In 1900 Paris, a couple is murdered by a masked man, with a young girl as the only survivor. Twelve years later, a wax museum opens in Rome, attracting people and causing a series of disappearances.

Director: Sergio Stivaletti | Stars: Robert Hossein, Romina Mondello, Riccardo Serventi Longhi, Gabriella Giorgelli

Votes: 2,474

14. Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)

Unrated | 85 min | Horror

A lawyer arrives at a castle to fix the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that his spirit is wandering around the castle with evil intentions.

Director: Massimo Pupillo | Stars: Barbara Steele, Walter Brandi, Mirella Maravidi, Alfredo Rizzo

Votes: 1,186

15. The Nest (2019)

107 min | Horror, Mystery

Samuel is a paraplegic boy who lives with his mother Elena in an isolated mansion. When he meets Denise, he finds the strength to open up to the world. Elena won't let him go so easily, and she is ready to do whatever it takes to stop him.

Director: Roberto De Feo | Stars: Francesca Cavallin, Justin Korovkin, Ginevra Francesconi, Maurizio Lombardi

Votes: 1,926

16. Crypt of the Vampire (1964)

Not Rated | 85 min | Horror

Count Karnstein sends for a doctor to help his sick daughter Laura. Her nurse believes she is possessed by the spirit of a dead ancestor, Carmilla.

Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Christopher Lee, Adriana Ambesi, Ursula Davis, José Campos

Votes: 1,212

17. The Witch (1966)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery

A womanizing author is lured to a mansion by an old woman under the guise of working as a librarian. Her daughter, Aura, appears out of nowhere and begins to seduce him. Little does he know, Aura doesn't actually exist.

Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Richard Johnson, Rosanna Schiaffino, Gian Maria Volontè, Sarah Ferrati

Votes: 535

18. Lust of the Vampire (1957)

82 min | Horror

Paris. Young girls are found dead, drained from their blood. A journalist investigates these murders while the beautiful Gisele, from a noble family, tries to seduce him.

Directors: Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava | Stars: Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo D'Angelo, Dario Michaelis, Wandisa Guida

Votes: 1,942

19. The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)

90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Count Drago invites entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans.

Directors: Warren Kiefer, Luciano Ricci | Stars: Christopher Lee, Gaia Germani, Philippe Leroy, Mirko Valentin

Votes: 1,163

20. Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes (1973)

Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.

Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller, Françoise Christophe, Venantino Venantini

Votes: 1,630

21. The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance (1975)

Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery

Gothic lesbians prowl the corridors of a miserable little castle in Italy and fall prey to a deranged count with resplendent canine gnashers, a ghostly white complexion and the personality of Atilla the Hun.

Director: Alfredo Rizzo | Stars: Femi Benussi, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Krista Nell, Patrizia Webley

Votes: 482

22. Nightmare Castle (1965)

Unrated | 90 min | Horror

A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.

Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Liné, Marino Masé

Votes: 2,710

23. The Blancheville Monster (1963)

Unrated | 88 min | Horror

The beautiful young daughter of a crazed count fears that she will fall victim to the family curse - to be sacrificed to fulfill an ancient family legend.

Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Gérard Tichy, Leo Anchóriz, Ombretta Colli, Helga Liné

Votes: 840

24. Web of the Spider (1971)

R | 93 min | Horror

The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ... See full summary »

Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski, Peter Carsten

Votes: 837

25. Horror Castle (1963)

Unrated | 84 min | Horror

Women are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor.

Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Rossana Podestà, Georges Rivière, Christopher Lee, Laura Nucci

Votes: 1,265

26. The Hand That Feeds the Dead (1974)

Not Rated | 87 min | Horror

Under strong influence from his burn victim wife, a wealthy aristocrat does skin transplants from young women, who were captured, operated on against their will and then killed, to fix his wife's burnt body.

Directors: Yilmaz Duru, Sergio Garrone | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Katia Christine, Marzia Damon, Carmen Silva

Votes: 376

27. The Forbidden Room (1977)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina

Votes: 1,315

28. The Doll of Satan (1969)

90 min | Horror

A couple travels to a castle for the reading of the will of the woman's recently deceased wealthy uncle. It turns out that he left her the castle and its grounds. She is persuaded by ... See full summary »

Director: Ferruccio Casapinta | Stars: Erna Schurer, Roland Carey, Aurora Battista, Aurora Bautista

Votes: 503

29. Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods (1972)

90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An old professor rents a mysterious old villa, and finds a tape recorded by a previous occupant, detailing her debauched lifestyle and the events leading to her murder.

Director: Sauro Scavolini | Stars: Erika Blanc, Peter Lee Lawrence, Ezio Marano, Rosario Borelli

Votes: 438

30. The Unnaturals (1969)

83 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

The characters engage in a séance at a mansion while a storm rages outside. During their stay, the film uses an extensive flashback structure to reveal the various criminal acts that each have perpetrated.

Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Marianne Koch, Helga Anders, Claudio Camaso

Votes: 312

31. Lover of the Monster (1974)

83 min | Horror

Anijeska, the Rassimov's heir, moves with her husband, Dr. Alex Nijinski, to her father's mansion. In the basement, the doctor discovers the laboratory in which the late Rassimov carried out horrifying experiments.

Director: Sergio Garrone | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Katia Christine, Marzia Damon, Stella Calderoni

Votes: 209

32. Nero veneziano (1978)

95 min | Horror, Mystery

A blind boy, who lives alone with his mean sister in a rundown hotel in Venice, receives a vision that warns him of the upcoming birth of the Antichrist. Soon, his sister mysteriously becomes pregnant.

Director: Ugo Liberatore | Stars: Renato Cestiè, Rena Niehaus, Yorgo Voyagis, Fabio Gamma

Votes: 489

33. Twins (2018)

Horror

The massacre of the Levi family, of which only adopted twins Eva and Greta survive, pits priests Father Michel and Father Paul against the powers of evil, both convinced that the twins are diabolical.

Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Isabella de Ligne-La Trémoïlle, Gérard Depardieu, Lars Eidinger, Damiana Fiammenghi

34. The Devil's Lover (1972)

80 min | Horror

Creepy tale about a sorrowful night passed in a nightmarish castle, so the house of the demon. Many horror elements are mixed with erotic atmosphere.

Director: Paolo Lombardo | Stars: Edmund Purdom, Rosalba Neri, Robert Woods, Ferdinando Poggi

Votes: 216

35. Tomb of Torture (1963)

Not Rated | 88 min | Horror

A woman is tormented by dreams that she is the reincarnation of a dead countess. Her father, trying to get her to stop the dreams, takes her to a village near the castle of the late ... See full summary »

Director: Antonio Boccaci | Stars: Annie Alberti, Adriano Micantoni, Marco Mariani, Flora Carosello

Votes: 289

36. La jena di Londra (1964)

79 min | Horror

A serial killer called "The Hyena" is finally caught and eventually hanged. However, his body disappears before it can be buried, and soon thereafter dead bodies start turning up in a small village.

Director: Gino Mangini | Stars: Giotto Tempestini, Diana Martín, Tony Kendall, Ilona Drash

Votes: 63

37. Night of the Damned (1971)

90 min | Horror, Mystery

A witch maintains herself young by killing all the members of a noble family. But the intervention of the famous journalist Jean Duprey will put an end to her crimes...

Director: Filippo Walter Ratti | Stars: Pierre Brice, Patrizia Viotti, Angela De Leo, Antonio Pavan

Votes: 157

38. Malombra (1942)

135 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.

Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Isa Miranda, Andrea Checchi, Irasema Dilián, Gualtiero Tumiati

Votes: 199

39. Malombra (1917)

75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young woman living in a castle reads letters written by her ancestor and comes to believe that she is the returned spirit of a former aristocrat who once live there.

Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Amleto Novelli, Augusto Mastripietri, Amedeo Ciaffi

Votes: 143

40. Il mistero del lago (2009 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

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Director: Marco Serafini | Stars: Ana Caterina Morariu, Lorenzo Flaherty, Angelica Cinquantini, Gabriele Manfredi

Votes: 45

41. Gli orizzonti del sole (1955)

95 min | Drama

The son of a lyric singer escapes from the college where He feels nobody understands him. Fortunately He will meet an old naturalist philosopher who will teach him the meaning of life. The boy, convinced, will come back to the college.

Director: Giovanni Paolucci | Stars: Nelly Corradi, Enrico Pea, Alvaro Piccardi, Anna Maria Paolucci

42. Lupin's Service (2023)

Short, Horror

A hiker gets lost in the Calabrian countryside. he get lost without water then he meets a strange butler who invites him to enter a ruined castle. A countess who hides a strange past meets ... See full summary »

Director: Ed Heap | Stars: Sophia Lockhart, Antonio Bibbo, Chiappetta Alessandro

43. Eurotika! (1999– )
Episode: Blood and Black Lace: A Short History of the Italian Horror Film (1999)

24 min | Documentary

Overview of Italian horror cinema from Mario Bava onwards.

Directors: Andrew Starke, Pete Tombs | Stars: Erika Blanc, Luigi Cozzi, Orchidea De Santis, Al Festa

Votes: 35