ITALIAN FOLK HORROR
Italian Giallo-Mystery-Thriller-Horror movies (and TV series) with a magic, occult, supernatural and eerie touch.
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- DirectorAldo LadoStarsIngrid ThulinJean SorelMario AdorfAn American journalist temporarily stationed in Central Europe searches for his new girlfriend, who has suddenly disappeared.Italo-croatian director Aldo Lado's opera prima is the ideal meeting point between Polanksi's "Rosemary's Baby" and Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut". In a eerie Praga (but the movie have mostly been shot in Zagabria) an american journalist (Jean Sorel) investigates the sudden disappearing of his girlfriend, discovering an occult conspiracy based on both esoteric and political aims. Seriously ahead of his time, "La corta notte" anticipates even Brian Yuzna's "Society" in its demonic deliria and Christopher Nolan's "Memento" for its peculiar interweaving of chronological levels. Awesome OST by Ennio Morricone.
- StarsMassimo BonettiLorenzo FlahertyJason Robards IIIPupi Avati's underestimated TV miniseries is a true «folk horror» masterpiece. In Rome, some people seems to disappear in some strange rituals on the Pons Siblicius, an ancient bridge where Etrusean priests used to carry out some ancestral, mysterious and cosmic-influenced human sacrifices. A young student investigating the case links it with the theories of Norberto Sinisgalli, a spooky architect of the 30's who believes in some sort of esoteric revelation, and slowly discovers a widespread occult conspiracy.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsFlorinda BolkanBarbara BouchetTomas MilianWhen a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.The most «folk horror» Lucio Fulci's giallo is set in a retrograde little town in Southern Italy, where a strange woman dubbed «la Maciara» («the witch») is the main suspect for the disappearances and the killings of children which shock the rural community. This is a movie about superstition, ignorance, sin, sexuality, ritual murders and purification, distrust of outsiders and the «double».
- DirectorFederico FelliniLouis MalleRoger VadimStarsJane FondaBrigitte BardotAlain DelonA trio of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a cruel countess haunted by her cousin's stallion, a sadistic soldier haunted by his doppelgänger, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.Anthology film from three european directors based on Edgar Allan Poe's dark stories. The 3rd segment, "Toby Dammit", directed by italian master director Federico Fellini, is a eerie-weird masterpiece about an english actor who comes to Cinecittà (Roma) and completely loses his mind. While he's possessed by some evil force and by the 'demon' of alcohol, his world falls apart and reality becomes a nightmare. The ghost girl playing with the ball is a reference to Mario Bava's "Operazione paura".
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJessica HarperStefania CasiniFlavio BucciAn American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.Dario Argento's most «folk horror» movie, "Suspiria", takes place in a german female ballet academy, where a newcomer realizes that something very sinister is happening between the school's walls. Her stay in the academy slowly turns into a descent to Hell. Amazing photography featuring a gargantuan use of colored (mostly red and blue) lights.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsLino CapolicchioFrancesca MarcianoGianni CavinaStefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.The most famous Pupi Avati's horror movie as well as cult-movie par excellence of the 70s giallo-thriller wave is set in the countryside of Romagna, where a young restorer is called to work at a fresco in the church painted by the so called «Painter of Agonies» mad artist Buono Legnani. Under the apparent calmness of the town lies a horrible secret of death, sex and madness.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsCatriona MacCollPaolo MalcoAnia PieroniA New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.The most terrifying horror movie by Lucio Fulci, influenced by H.P. Lovecraft and E.A. Poe stories, takes place in a old mansion in rural America, where a researcher and his family comes to live for a brief period to investigate the sinister life and death of the past tenant, the infamous doctor Freudstein (a combination of Freud+Frankenstein), banned from the Surgeons' Register for some mysterious reason.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsGeorge HiltonEdwige FenechIvan RassimovA woman recovering from a car accident in which she lost her unborn child finds herself pursued by a coven of devil worshipers.When a woman (Edwige Fenech) devastated by past traumas and filled with medical drugs is initiated by a neighbour to a strange cult's rituals, she definitely loses grip with reality and plunges in terrific visions. Sergio Martino's cult-movie is a clear epigone of Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby", although the narrative plot is based on a typical giallo-thriller entanglement and the psychedelic, trip-like visions of Fenech's character give the movie an unique touch. Great OST by Bruno Nicolai.
- DirectorMichele SoaviStarsHugh QuarshieTomas AranaFeodor Chaliapin Jr.An old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.An atavic Evil dwells in a pit under a gothic cathedral, built over a mass grave. When a young researcher tries to investigate the mystery of the building according to Fulcanelli's theories all hell breaks loose. Lots of visual suggestions, great SFX, esoteric and lovecraftian vibes plus a "Rosemary's Baby" mention for this Michele Soavi's Ken-Russell-esque movie. Featuring a very young Asia Argento. Music by Keith Emerson, Goblin and Philip Glass.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsGabriele LaviaAnne CanovasPaola TanzianiStefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and accidentally sees that some text is still readable on the ribbon. He manages to reconstruct the story of a scientist, Paolo Zeder, who in the 1950's discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead that are buried in them. Stefano's investigations bring him in contact with a group of renegade scientists that are still making experiments to prove Zeder's theories.Though shot in Romagna's countryside, in the same way as the previous "La casa dalle finestre che ridono", "Zeder" presents a very different plot and atmospheres. Mostly famous for some surprising anticipations of Stephen King's "Pet Cemerary" novel - this is an atypical zombie movie concerning weird pseudo-scientific theories about some kind of soils called «K zones» where death can be defeated, and the implication in the experiments of some unsuspecting personalities link to the Church.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsGiacomo Rossi StuartErika BlancFabienne DaliA 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.In a misty Transylvanian village a doctor has been called to perform an autopsy on a woman who died a violent death. During his stay others murders occur while he learns that some kind of curse hangs over the town. Stuck somewhere between Hitchcook and "Witchfinder General", this Mario Bava's ghost movie is a classic not only in Italy, but even worldwide.
- DirectorMariano BainoStarsLouise SalterVenera SimmonsMariya KapnistA girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.Mariano Baino's opera prima (aka "Dark Waters") is the italian masterpiece of Lovecraft-influenced cinema. Young Elizabeth, tormented by strange visions concerning her childhood, visits a monastery located on a isle on the Black Sea, where she finds that the nuns living there got involved with strange, demonic rituals.
- DirectorFrancesco BarilliStarsMimsy FarmerMaurizio BonugliaMario ScacciaSylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.Another Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby" italian epigone, this Francesco Barilli's movie continues in the wave of Lado's "La corta notte delle bambole di vetro" and Martino's "Tutti i colori del buio", but the occult conspiracy plot here is revitalized by african black magic references and some crazy gore visual sequences, first of all the impressive ending scene.
- DirectorLorenzo BianchiniStarsGiorgio BasileEdo BassoLaura BauHorror film about a journalist and professor looking into an old Fresco that might have something to do with the devil.Lorenzo Bianchini (see also "Oltre il guado") is one of the most preeminent italian horror director of the new wave. In "Custodes Bestiae", his second full-length film, he shows his devotion to some classic directors of the '70s italian wave (Avati, Argento), but also his interest for lovecraftian suggestions (this one should be seen with "Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L."), since the whole plot recalls HPL's "The Shadow over Innsmouth".
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsCatriona MacCollDavid WarbeckCinzia MonrealeA young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.The most famous Lucio Fulci's horror cult is a delusional descent to Hell in an abandoned hotel in Louisiana, where supernatural evil forces seems to come back to life to threaten the character's mental sanity in a lovecraftian way. Fulci's «poetic vision» on its zenit, combining esoteric suggestions, effective atmospheres and ultra-gore sequences.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsBarbara SteeleJohn RichardsonAndrea ChecchiA 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.Another Mario Bava's classic. Inspired by Gogol's novel «Vij», and best known worldwide as "Black Sunday", "La maschera del demonio" is the quintessential italian gothic-horror movie. The beginning in medias res shows the burning of a witch and her lover, during the Middle Age. Then, centuries later, two doctors who travelled by the same area, find the heretics' underground chapel and accidentally bring the damned souls back to life as vampires. Wonderful B/W photography, foggy-eerie atmosphere, SFX ahead its time and - last but not least - a majestic Barbara Steele.
- DirectorAntonio BidoStarsLino CapolicchioStefania CasiniCraig HillThe body of a schoolgirl is found in a meadow. The murderer is never caught, and years later, a young man named Stefano returns to the island and is reunited with his brother, the local priest.In this Antonio Bido's Pupi-Avati-esque «folk horror» giallo, Stefano, a young teacher, goes to a small island in the Laguna di Venezia, Northern Italy, to join his brother and priest of the town and to find some peace of mind. Suddenly, he find himself trapped into a web of mysterious killings, madness and medianic suggestions.
- DirectorMassimo DallamanoStarsRichard JohnsonJoanna CassidyLila KedrovaThe titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.A TV documentarist and his little daughter (Nicoletta Elmi) go to Spoleto, Central Italy, to shoot a footage about the figure of the Devil in medieval art. When the girl finds and wears an ancient necklace an ominous Evil take possess of her thoughts and actions. The director Massimo Dallamano is mostly famous for his previous detective story-giallo-thriller movies "Cosa avete fatto a Solange?" and "La polizia chiede aiuto", but "Il medaglione insanguinato" is the only one of his films that includes occult and supernatural suggestions.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsCarlo CecchiStefano DionisiArnaldo NinchiA seminary student, Giacomo Vigetti, is convicted by the Papal State of seducing a young girl. He is forced to flee and takes refuge with an excommunicated priest. Unfortunately, the priest was excommunicated for experimenting with the black arts. And soon Giacomo wishes they'd never met.Another Pupi Avati's esoteric thriller, as usually set in the Romagna's countryside, in the XIII century, where a young seminarian comes to a monastery just to realize that a Monsignor living there possesses the ominous book «Pseudo-monarchia dæmonium» and spends his time in occult and magic practices. Some classic Avati's topos here (i.e. folk-magic, the «double»). Great OST by Pino Donaggio.
- DirectorLuigi BazzoniFranco RosselliniStarsPeter BaldwinSalvo RandoneValentina CorteseWhile visiting his favorite resort town during the off-season, a novelist investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.Based on real events occurred in the town of Alleghe, Veneto, Northern Italy, where between 1933 and 1945 five murders have been made. A visitor arrives in this village on a mountain lake to look for a friend of him. In a autumnal-dreamy atmosphere, residents tell him she committed suicide, but he keeps seeing a eerie woman walking by the lake's shore, like a phantom-like presence. This Luigi Bazzoni and Franco Rossellini's movies is one of the finest italian psychological thriller and it's regarded as a huge influence for the giallo-thriller wave of the 70s.
- DirectorBrunello RondiStarsDaliah LaviFrank WolffAnna María AvetaA lonely, sexually-uninhibited young peasant is subjected to an exorcism after she hexes a man who rejects her advances.In a small village in Lucania, Southern Italy, Purificata (Daliah Lavi), a young woman who practices folk magic, has been accused for a child's death. When she's been caught by her fellow citizens, she begins to confess her consults with the Devil and to show signs of demonic possession. This Brunello Rondi's B/W movie - based on prof. Ernesto de Martino's anthropologic-folk researches - combines typical horror sequences with social analyses about superstitions and the fear of the different.
- DirectorMichele SoaviStarsKelly CurtisHerbert LomMariangela GiordanoA lonely kindergarten teacher discovers a secret well in the basement of her house, and soon finds herself being followed by a murderous Satanic cult.Another Michele Soavi's satanic-horror movie plenty of references to films like "Rosemary's Baby", "La corta notte delle bambole di vetro", "Chi sei?", "Il nido del ragno" and to H.P. Lovecraft's mythology as well. In Frankfurt, a coven of devil worshippers put their eyes on a young girl to give birth to Satan's progeny. Watch out for the amazing face-ripping scene.
- DirectorLorenzo BianchiniStarsRenzo GariupMarco MarcheseLidia ZabrieszachThe story revolves around an ethologist working in the remote woods, trapping animals and mounting cameras on them so that he can monitor their behavior remotely. The resulting recordings lead him to a remote village, the site of an ancient curse, where he is trapped due to heavy rain fall raising the level of the river and flooding out the only access...This oniric and eerie Lorenzo Bianchini's movie takes place in the woods of the Alpi mountains between Italy and Slovenia, where a young ethnologist find himself stuck in an abandoned village under some terrific curse. The finding of some old photos and footage, and all the sinister nighttime sounds lead him to madness.
- DirectorFederico GrecoRoberto LeggioStarsEraldo BaldiniAlfredo CastelliDonatella Ceccarello1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti hypothesizes the possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of northern Italy. 2002: One of the directors of the film comes across a manuscript in Montecatini (Italy) which may have belonged to the American writer. This journal, dated 1926, describes travels in Italy through the Po Delta in search of inspiration in the form of local folk stories: the Filò Tales. 2004: A small, tough crew of international filmmakers is put together with the help of David, a New York actor, to make a documentary on the finding of the journal and on the links between Lovecraft and the Po Delta. If the manuscript really did belong to Lovecraft, it would be an extraordinary discovery. As soon as they begin, however, the filmmakers find that Andrea Roberti disappeared in mysterious circumstances many years before, his car found abandoned on the banks of the Po. The crew sets up its base in the town of Loreo - referred to simply as L. in the manuscript - as the author of the journal did. During their investigations the atmosphere of animosity and foreboding rises and they soon discover that strange and disturbing things have been happening in the area. Events that the locals are eager to keep secret. The film "Road to L." is the true account of what took place behind the scenes of the 11 day shoot, reporting how the failures and revelations experienced in L. came to resemble ever more a journey to... Hell. Did Lovecraft really come into contact with something sinister? Did Andrea Roberti stumble across something he wasn't meant to find? The documentary makers are stepping too far into the unknown...Mockumentary based on the hypothesis that H.P. Lovecraft made a trip to Polesine, Northern Italy, to take inspiration from some esoteric cults («la Confraternita dei Fradei») and from the folktales of the area of the river Po's Delta («Racconti del Filò»), especially the belief in a sort of lizard-like creature, for the genesis of some of his most famous stories.
- DirectorStefano LodovichiStarsFilippo NigroCamilla FilippiGiovanni VettorazzoWinter 2010. Dolomites. Tommaso Conci, a 4 year old child, disappears during a festival where people disguised as devils, the Krampus, terrorize the village with whips and chains. Five years later, a child was found nameless and without documents. DNA matches: he is Tommi. Manuel, the father, can finally embrace his son. The mother, Linda, however, can not adapt to the new situation. A suspect digs inside her: what if that child is not really her son?One of the best «folk horror» italian movies of the last decades, Stefano Lodovichi's "In fondo al bosco" is based on the disappearance of a child during the night of the Krampus celebrations (Krampus are in the local folklore a kind of demons who kidnaps bad children). The lost boy suddenly reappears 5 years later, but his mother is not sure that he's her son, and the peasants as well look at him like a «little demon».
- DirectorRoberto Bontà PolitoStarsGianni CapaldiAlessandro D'AmbrosiRosaria De CiccoThe mysterious disappearances of some children in San Lupo, in the province of Benevento in Italy, are throwing into chaos and terror in the population: for some it might be a pedophile, while others believe it is a legendary witch.In a small village near Benevento, Southern Italy, some children begin to disappear. Though police look for a pedophile, the peasants recall the local legend about a sort of demon-witch called «la Janara», who was burnt long ago for her black magic practices. This Roberto Bontà Polito's movie is one of the best italian horror films of the last decades.
- DirectorPiero VivarelliStarsNadia CassiniBeryl CunninghamSergio TramontiA beautiful Italian woman, Paola (Nadia Cassini) is told by her black friend (Evaristo Márquez) about the Caribbean love god Jambaya who appears in the form of the snake. By the end of the movie, Paola decides to give herself to Jambaya while a local woman named Stella (Beryl Cunningham) departs with her white friend's ex-lover, establishing a neat symmetry between their respective fantasies of exoticism.And now for something different Piero Vivarelli's "Il dio serpente", a peculiar movie of the «erotika-exotica» sub-wave, between horror and Emanuelle-like soft-porn films. A young italian woman reaches his husband in a Carribean island, where a native friend introduces her to the cult of Djamballà, an indigenous deity of Love and Death which appears in the form of a giant snake.
- DirectorAldo LadoStarsGeorge LazenbyAnita StrindbergAdolfo CeliBetween a four-year gap in the murder of a young girl, the daughter of a well-known sculptor is discovered dead, and her parents conduct an investigation, only to discover they are much out of their depth.Another Aldo Lado's dark thriller, "Chi l'ha vista morire?", shot in Venice, is the italian epigone of Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now!"... that will be out in the theaters only the following year. Not a «folk horror» movie strictu senso, but the magnificent location and the menacing atmosphere of the italian province (like in Avati's films) should satisfy the FH lovers.
- DirectorGiulio QuestiStarsLucia BosèMaurizio Degli EspostiTina AumontA Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.Giulio Questi's 'maudit' movie - barely unknown because of distribution issues and then heavily cut in the TV version - is focused on a southern-italian household based in Milan's suburbia, including a mother practicing spiritism, medianism and folk-magic and his troubled son. When he persuades his mother to teach him the secrets of magic, things get mad.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsJennifer O'NeillGabriele FerzettiMarc PorelA clairvoyant woman discovers a skeleton in a wall in her husband's house, and seeks to find the truth about what happened to the victim.Another Fulci's one. In Tuscany, a clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband's home and finds a skeleton. With the collaboration of her psychiatrist she seeks to find out whose the body is and who put it there. But something seems very wrong as the woman realize that her vision should be not a vision of the past, but one from the future. A worth watching psycho-thriller with a supernatural touch.
- DirectorLuigi BazzoniMario FanelliStarsFlorinda BolkanPeter McEneryNicoletta ElmiAfter being tormented by dreams about astronauts on the moon, a translator visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her, although she does not know them.Not a «folk horror» movie stricto sensu, but with lots of wyrd/eerie suggestions. A woman (Florinda Bolkan), tormented by a strange dream about an astronaut who's been abandoned on the Moon, starts to have some «missing time» experiences and begins to recall some enigmatic memories about Garma, an exotic location in Turkey, where finally she travelled to, to find the truth about her actual state of mind and about her forgotten past. Luigi Bazzoni's "Le Orme" is one of the finest examples of italian psychological thriller of the 70s.
- DirectorMario BavaLamberto BavaStarsDaria NicolodiJohn SteinerDavid Colin Jr.A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband, who possesses their young son.Mario Bava's last theatrical feature before he died of a heart attack in 1980. Dora, a woman with a traumatic past (her first husband died in mysterious circumstances) lives with her second husband and their little son, but suddenly she begins to suspect that his child has become possessed by his deceased father's spirit. Between ghost-horror and psychological thriller.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsCarroll BakerAlan ScottIda GalliA mute woman finds herself at the center of a series of murders in the mountains of Spain, which police suspect are being committed by a drug-addled Satanist.The only one Umberto Lenzi's «folk horror» giallo-thriller takes place in the french countryside, where Martha (Carrol Baker), a mute woman who saw her parents' death, lives with her family. When Martha's cousin Jenny was stabbed to death and some weird esoteric and satanic symbols were found, someone thinks about a sacrifice to the Devil, though others look for a sexual maniac. In an atmosphere of waiting and fleetingness, the mystery will be unraveled only in the ending scene.
- DirectorOvidio G. AssonitisRoberto D'Ettorre PiazzoliStarsJuliet MillsRichard JohnsonGabriele LaviaJuliet Mills plays a young pregnant woman in San Francisco who is going to have the devil's baby during her strange possession. Richard Johnson shows up to help her... but what does he really want?A young mother in S. Francisco unexpectedly falls pregnant for the third time and suddenly becomes to show sinister signs of demonic possession. Know worldwide as "Beyond the Door", the italo-greek-egyptian Ovidio G. Assonitis' opera prima is "The Exorcist"'s italian epigone, though some influences from "Rosemary's Baby" are present as well. Great success in the U.S.A.
- DirectorElio PetriStarsFranco NeroVanessa RedgraveGeorges GéretAfter moving into a dilapidated rural villa to reinvigorate his creative energies, a neurotic artist becomes obsessed with a beautiful countess who died there many years prior.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaMario BavaStarsGianna Maria CanaleCarlo D'AngeloDario MichaelisParis. 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.
- DirectorCorrado FarinaStarsAdolfo CeliGeraldine HooperGiuliano EsperatiIn this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted. However, the old man is not what he seems and promotion has a price.This Corrado Farina's movie is a marcusian-like version of the Nosferatu myth, set in the foggy hills of Piemonte, Norhern Italy. Basically the plot is based on the equation between vampirism and capitalism - from which the title: "They have changed their faces". Very peculiar, between horror/thriller and satiric black comedy, featuring a great Adolfo Celi. In some sense, a "They Live" ante-litteram.
- DirectorGianfranco GiagniStarsRoland WybengaPaola RinaldiMargareta von KraussAlan Whitmore, a young American researcher, goes to Budapest to visit Professor Roth, with whom he collaborated on a secret project called "Intextus" while a mysterious killer in on the loose...Gianfranco Giagni's opera prima, shot in a eerie Budapest, is one of the most interesting italian horror movies of the late 80s. A strange cult concerning a spider-like deity is spreading underground. A lot of references (Lado, Bava, Argento, Polanski) plus Sergio Stivaletti's absolutely crazy SFX, especially in the last sequences.
- DirectorMichele SoaviStarsRupert EverettFrançois Hadji-LazaroAnna FalchiA cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies.Ispired by the namesake Tiziano Sclavi's novel - and by his comic's character Dylan Dog, the «detective of the nightmare», aswell -, Michele Soavi's "Dellamorte Dellamore" is one of the most peculiar italian weird movies of the '90s, between horror and black comedy-drama. The protagonist here is a cemetery guardian (Rupert Everett) whose duty is killing for a second time the non-dead souls that come back to life.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsGianni GarkoAgostina BelliRoberto MalderaThe patriarch of a wealthy family fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family to not let him back into his house, no matter how much he begs them.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsLaura MoranteRita TushinghamBurt Young"The Hideout" is a mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
- DirectorArmando CrispinoStarsAlex CordSamantha EggarJohn MarleyA photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.In Spoleto, central Italy, an archeologist is working on some tomb excavations, when he discover an ancient Etruscan fresco depicting the God of Death Tuchulcha killing a couple of lovers having sex. At the same time, people begins to get murdered.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsLeigh McCloskeyIrene MiracleEleonora GiorgiAn American student investigates the disappearance of his sister and the death of a friend, both connected from New York to Rome by an old alchemy book.Thought as a "Suspiria" part II, Dario Argento's "Inferno" is indeed really different, particularly in the atmosphere: dreamy there, more furious here. Even the OST, tipically '80s, gives the movie a completely different touch. Nevertheless, also "Inferno" deals with witch-covens and female boarding schools, but the visual appearance here is more effective than the plot.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsChristopher ConnellyLaura LenziBrigitta BoccoliAn archaeologist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidentally releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed entity and, upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.Another Fulci's one, "Manhattan Baby" is a satanic horror similar to Assonitis' "Chi sei?". An american archeologist's family is in Egypt for some excavations, while his little daughter meets a deaf mysterious woman who gives her an ancient pendant. When they come back to New York, they realizes that they have awaken something very atavic and ominous.
- DirectorPaolo HeuschUsmar IsmailUgo LiberatoreStarsJohn SteinerLaura AntonelliUmberto OrsiniGlenn and Carlo are in the beautiful and exotic island of Bali where they work on writing a photo book. Glenn is in the grip of a mystical crisis, influenced by the magical rituals of the place, converted to Hinduism.
- DirectorRiccardo PaolettiStarsDaisy KeepingDavid BrandonJoy TannerOn a trip home to Italy to visit her father, Jenny is thrown into a world of mystery, horror and legend as she is compelled to discover the truth behind all his secrets and lies.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsBarbara CupistiPietro GenuardiLorenzo MajnoniAs part of a science experiment, a man has spent a record-breaking length of time alone down a hole, but an hour before he's due to re-emerge, something goes wrong and his colleagues has to go in to rescue him.A team of speleologists makes an operation to rescue a man in danger in a complex of underground tunnels, but they find out that friars, 700 years before, seven heretic priests have been condemned to death and cast a curse over this place. Late and low-budget Umberto Lenzi's horror movie.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJennifer ConnellyDonald PleasenceDaria NicolodiA young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.Another Argento's. A girl (Jennifer Connelly) who can telepathically communicate with insects arrives in a boarding school in Switzerland just to find herself struck in a series of murders. Not as good as Argento's '70s movies ("L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo", "Quattro mosche di velluto grigio", "Profondo rosso", "Suspiria") yet worth watching.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsTelly SavalasElke SommerSylva KoscinaA tourist spends the night in a derelict Spanish villa seemingly held in the supernatural grip of an eccentric butler, who resembles a depiction of the Devil she had seen on an old fresco.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsMichèle MercierLidia AlfonsiBoris KarloffBoris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
- DirectorEmilio MiragliaStarsBarbara BouchetUgo PagliaiMarina MalfattiTwo sisters inherit their family castle, which is said to be haunted by their ancestor, a dark-haired, red-robed woman who is said to take seven lives every hundred years.
- DirectorChristian BiscegliaAscanio MalgariniStarsHarriet MacMasters-GreenSabrina Jolie PerezJarreth J. MerzA single mother moves into a new house with her daughter. Soon after the young girl has her first baby tooth fall off, she begins to recount that she is having nocturnal visits by a tooth fairy. It seems the house has a sinister history.
- DirectorGianni MartucciStarsGerardo AmatoLara WendelMalisa LongoSort of loose remake of the late director Mario Bava's _Lisa e il diavolo (1974)_ about a group of witches who lure strangers into a haunted house to sacrifice.
- DirectorUgo LiberatoreStarsRenato CestièRena NiehausYorgo VoyagisA 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.
- DirectorMarcello AliprandiStarsJohn Phillip LawNathalie DelonOlga BiseraMartino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen...
- DirectorMario BavaStarsStephen ForsythDagmar LassanderLaura BettiA cleaver-wielding bridal designer murders various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma.
- DirectorFrancesco BarilliStarsLuc MerendaLeonora FaniFrancisco RabalA 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.
- DirectorEros PuglielliStarsLuigi Lo CascioLucía JiménezJosé Ángel EgidoWhile hunting a cultured, intelligent and vicious psychopath, Inspector Amaldi comes face to face with the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his own past.
- DirectorStefano BessoniStarsAlberto AmarillaOona ChaplinLeticia DoleraA series of strange murders take place in an European school of cinema and nobody, except the professors, seems to understand what's happening.
- DirectorTonino CerviStarsHaydée PolitoffSilvia MontiIda GalliA young motorcyclist helps a man with a flat tyre, who ends up dead after crashing his car. The young man takes a detour into the forest, and stumbles on a lakeside house, occupied by three sisters, but they're not who they pretend to be.
- DirectorRenato PolselliStarsMickey HargitayRita CalderoniRaul LovecchioA 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.
- DirectorLuigi BatzellaJoe D'AmatoStarsMark DamonRosalba NeriEsmeralda BarrosLady Dracula uses Dracula's ring to lure beautiful girls to her castle, where she murders them so she can bathe in their blood.
- DirectorEmilio MiragliaStarsAnthony SteffenMarina MalfattiEnzo TarascioA rich, mentally-unstable man - with a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his dead wife - sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsDaliah LaviChristopher LeeTony KendallThe ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorized, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly betrothed to his brother.
- DirectorAlberto De MartinoStarsCarla GravinaMel FerrerArthur KennedyA paralyzed young woman becomes possessed by the Devil when a hypnosis session - intended to heal her disability - accidentally awakens memories of her past life as a witch.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsBarbara SteeleAnthony SteffenClaudio GoraAt 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 .
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsBarbara SteeleGeorge ArdissonHalina ZalewskaA woman under suspicion of witchcraft is burned alive. Her curse brings her back from the dead for revenge.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsChristopher LeeAdriana AmbesiUrsula DavisCount 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.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsBarbara SteeleRobert FlemyngSilvano TranquilliIn 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.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsBarbara SteelePeter BaldwinElio JottaA woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsPierre BriceScilla GabelWolfgang PreissIn 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.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiSergio CorbucciStarsBarbara SteeleGeorges RivièreMargrete RobsahmA 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.
- DirectorMaurizio ZaccaroStarsTom GallopCara WilderDon PearsonRather than waste the funds and logistical skill it took to film the movie "Bix" in Davenport, Iowa, Italian filmmaker Pupi Avati wrote and produced this unassuming English-language melodrama to make full use of their unusual location. This film tells the story about a young man, Irving, who returns to the house where he grew up - just after the death of his father, whose reputation got destroyed by the suicide of a young woman he had an affair with. Irving left his small-town home a long time ago, after breaking off relations with his father, who was capable of all kinds of wrongdoing. In particular, Irving's old man got a girl pregnant and didn't even begin to do the right thing by her. Now that the old coot is dead and he is the sole heir, Irving has come back to town determined to right past wrongs, and see to it that the girl's family benefits from his legacy. The young man soon gets obsessed by the house and the past of his dad... "Dove Comincia la Notte" is a film in the tradition of overtly subtle horror films like the beautiful "Un Sussurro nel Buio" from 1976, where no manifestation of the supernatural ever happens, yet the main characters are so haunted by a past event that they won't be able to escape in the end.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsBrett HalseyMeg RegisterLino SalemmeA Canadian archaeological team in Sicily accidentally unleashes vengeful ghosts of five demonic nuns who were murdered 500 years earlier, and the ghosts now set out to kill the group and townspeople alike.
- DirectorLucio FulciJoe D'AmatoStarsJohn SavageSandi SchultzRichard CastlemanA young man has mysterious encounters with an unknown woman, an ominous hearse, and other supernatural events on the road during an aimless drive around Louisiana after the funeral of his father.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsLone FlemingCésar BurnerMaría Elena ArpónMedieval knights executed for their black magic rituals come back as zombies to torment a group of vacationing college kids.
- DirectorAndrea BianchiStarsKarin WellGianluigi ChirizziSimone MattioliAn archaeology professor discovers an ancient crypt which contains living dead corpses. The zombies go on a rampage and attack a group of people which the professor had invited to celebrate his discovery.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsElvire AudrayPaolo MalcoClaudio CassinelliJoan has nightmares of Etruscan sacrifices. She knows very well the Etruscan language and her husband Arthur is an archeologist studying Etruscan tombs. In a nightmare she foresees her husband's death. And Arthur is then killed with the same way the Etruscans killed their sacrifice victims.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsRossana PodestàGeorges RivièreChristopher LeeWomen are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor.
- DirectorWarren KieferLuciano RicciStarsChristopher LeeGaia GermaniPhilippe LeroyCount Drago invites entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans.
- DirectorMassimo PupilloStarsBarbara SteeleWalter BrandiMirella MaravidiA 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.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsTony KendallFernando SanchoEsperanza RoyIn this second startling film in the BLIND DEAD series, writer/director Amando de Ossorio returns to the horrific origin of the depraved Templar:
- DirectorMario CaianoStarsBarbara SteelePaul MullerHelga LinéA woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsVíctor PetitMaría KostySandra MozarowskyIn this final installment of the Blind Dead series, a doctor and his wife move to a small inhospitable coastal village where he plans to start a practice only to discover that undead demon-worshiping Templar Knights haunt the place.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsRichard JohnsonRosanna SchiaffinoGian Maria VolontèA 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.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsMaria PerschyJack TaylorBárbara ReyThe living corpses of the Satan-worshiping Knights Templar hunt for human victims in a 16th century galleon.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsJoseph CottenElke SommerMassimo GirottiA young man, visiting the castle of a murderous ancestor in Austria, accidentally brings his dead relative back to life - searching for new victims.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsJane BirkinHiram KellerFrançoise ChristopheIn 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.
- DirectorAlessandro CaponeStarsAmy AdamsPierre AgostinoJeff BankertSiblings and friends visit an inherited house, unaware it's haunted by demons and a witch's ghost seeking revenge for her execution.
- DirectorLeopoldo SavonaStarsMark DamonClaudia GravyAldo Bufi LandiA man who's been in love with his sister since childhood returns after a year's absence to find she has married. Soon, several women in the area start turning up dead with strange wounds on their necks.
- DirectorFerruccio CasapintaStarsErna SchurerRoland CareyAurora BattistaA 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 various characters to sell it, but is hesitant. Strange things begin to happen, most of them directed at the young woman.
- DirectorEnzo MilioniStarsJacques SernasZora KerovaBarbara BlaskoA black-gloved killer is on the prowl.
- DirectorJean BrisméeStarsErika BlancJean ServaisDaniel EmilforkA group of tourists traveling on a bus take a detour to stay overnight in a castle owned by a family cursed with a history of Satanism and death.
- DirectorRino Di SilvestroStarsAnnik BorelHoward RossDagmar LassanderA woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge.
- DirectorAlessio Rigo de RighiMatteo ZoppisStarsErcole ColnagoBruno Di GiovanniUgo FarnettiA documentary about the story of Mario de Marcella, a hermit that lived in the woods near Rome. He was called by hunters "Il Solengo" because that's how they call the lone boar that is cut off from the rest of the pack.
- DirectorAurelio ChiesaStarsTomas MilianLaura MoranteWilliam BergerAlien spirits from outer space land on earth and take over the bodies of the recently deceased--but their purpose isn't what it would appear to be.