While interviewing the famous writer Edgar Allan Poe : Silvano Tanquili, a journalist named Foster : Georges Riviere takes a bet with Thomas Blackwood : Umberto Raho , so that he can spend one night at a tenebrous and haunted house. There appear to him vengeful spectres and bloodsuckers roaming here and there, resulting in fateful consequences.
Nice terror movie revolving around the house haunted plot with plenty of ghosts , eerie appearances formed by preternatural beings , creepy murders and ghastly events. Set at a ghastly castle where happens scabrous and horrifying events . In spite of a few escenarios and its low budget the picture is pretty well, thanks to the adequate filmmaking , stunning cinematography taking great use of lights and shades as well as camera positioning to complement appropriate horror set pieces. Acceptable starring , an obstinate journalist well incarnated by Georges Riviere . Special mention for the always great Barbara Steele , here become a Terror myth along with other films she starred as Black Sunday and She-Beast. Support cast are very fine , such as : Arturo Dominici, Margrete Robsahm, Silvano Tranquili , Umberto Raho , Benito Stefanelli and Giovanni Cianfriglia who used to play under pseudonym as Ken Wood for Spaghetti Westerns.
Displaying a thrilling and frightening musical score by Riz Ortalani. It contains a dark and sinister cinematography in black and white by Riccardo Pallotini . The motion picture was compellingly directed by Antonio Margheriti or Anthony M. Dawson and uncredited by Sergio Corbucci, the latter a prestigious filmmaker of notorious Spaghetti Westerns. Antonio Margheritti was a good craftsman expert on horror and exploitation films. Antonio directed with skill and aplomb from 1956 to his death in 2002. He made all kinds of genres , some of them splendidly directed and others mediocre or failures. As he realized wartime movies, such as : The Last Hunter , Tornado, Codename Wild Geese , Der Commander , Command Leopard . Sci-Fi : War of Planets , Planet of the Prowl , Criminal of the Galaxy , Yor the Hunter from the future , Treasure Planet .Spaghetti Western : Joko, Dynamite Joe , The Stranger and the Gunfighter , Take a Hard Ride , Ghosts go West , Joe implacable God Said to Cain. And Terror : Virgin of Nuremberg , Cannibal Apocalypse , Alien From Deep , Flesh for Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein, among others. Rating 7.5/10. Better than average. The picture will appeal to Italian Gothic aficionados.
Nice terror movie revolving around the house haunted plot with plenty of ghosts , eerie appearances formed by preternatural beings , creepy murders and ghastly events. Set at a ghastly castle where happens scabrous and horrifying events . In spite of a few escenarios and its low budget the picture is pretty well, thanks to the adequate filmmaking , stunning cinematography taking great use of lights and shades as well as camera positioning to complement appropriate horror set pieces. Acceptable starring , an obstinate journalist well incarnated by Georges Riviere . Special mention for the always great Barbara Steele , here become a Terror myth along with other films she starred as Black Sunday and She-Beast. Support cast are very fine , such as : Arturo Dominici, Margrete Robsahm, Silvano Tranquili , Umberto Raho , Benito Stefanelli and Giovanni Cianfriglia who used to play under pseudonym as Ken Wood for Spaghetti Westerns.
Displaying a thrilling and frightening musical score by Riz Ortalani. It contains a dark and sinister cinematography in black and white by Riccardo Pallotini . The motion picture was compellingly directed by Antonio Margheriti or Anthony M. Dawson and uncredited by Sergio Corbucci, the latter a prestigious filmmaker of notorious Spaghetti Westerns. Antonio Margheritti was a good craftsman expert on horror and exploitation films. Antonio directed with skill and aplomb from 1956 to his death in 2002. He made all kinds of genres , some of them splendidly directed and others mediocre or failures. As he realized wartime movies, such as : The Last Hunter , Tornado, Codename Wild Geese , Der Commander , Command Leopard . Sci-Fi : War of Planets , Planet of the Prowl , Criminal of the Galaxy , Yor the Hunter from the future , Treasure Planet .Spaghetti Western : Joko, Dynamite Joe , The Stranger and the Gunfighter , Take a Hard Ride , Ghosts go West , Joe implacable God Said to Cain. And Terror : Virgin of Nuremberg , Cannibal Apocalypse , Alien From Deep , Flesh for Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein, among others. Rating 7.5/10. Better than average. The picture will appeal to Italian Gothic aficionados.