Faceless

Starring:Faceless
Studio: Shriek Show
Product Type: DVD

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Entombed for eons - turned to stone - seeking women, women, women! - In the excavation site scientists uncover the body of a gladiator from the ruins of Pompeii, a stone-encrusted body is found with a bronze medallion bearing a strange Etruscan inscription. Carlo Fiorillo, Italian archaeologist, speculates the robust body may hold some life; medical researcher Paul Mallon scoffs at the idea. But people left alone with the seemingly petrified "faceless man" keep dying of crushed skulls; and Paul's artist fiancée Tina starts having strange visions...

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Entombed for eons - turned to stone - seeking women, women, women! .......2005-11-29

What can be said about Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) that hasn't already been said? Apparently a lot, since I be the first to review it on the Amazon website...written by Jerome Bixby (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Fantastic Voyage) and directed by schlockmeister extraordinaire Edward L. Cahn (The She-Creature, Dragstrip Girl, Invasion of the Saucer Men), the film stars Richard Anderson, whom most in my generation would recognize as Oscar Goldman from the mid 70s television series "The Six Million Dollar Man" (you're doing that bionic sound effect in your head right now, aren't you? Me too...). Also appearing is Elaine Edwards (Guns, Girls, and Gangsters, The Bat), Adele Mara (Sands of Iwo Jima, The Black Whip), Luis Van Rooten (The Big Clock, Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture), Felix Locher (Hell Ship Mutiny, Frankenstein's Daughter), Jan Arvan (The Sign of Zorro, The Poseidon Adventure), and Gar Moore (Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff).

As the movie begins we see a miniature volcano spewing forth its molten, steamy goodness over a miniature city, supposedly representing a reenactment of Mount Vesuvius destroying the city of Pompeii in 79 A.D., according to the narrator...well, that was kinda fun...now we're in the present, and we see some Giuseppe rooting around on an excavation site. He uncovers a golden jewel box along with man-sized, man shaped, white stone figure (actually, it looks like a man covered in lumpy, crusty gravy). Within the jewel box are some shiny trinkets, along with a bronze medallion sporting a curse of sorts. The find is taken to the museum (not before someone dies mysteriously), run by Dr. Carlo Fiorillo (Rooten) and his hotchie mama daughter Maria (Mara). Dr. Fiorillo calls in his friend, Oscar Goldman ...er, I mean Dr. Paul Mallon (Anderson), to do a preliminary investigation of the stone cold corpse. Mallon is skeptical about the curse mumbo jumbo, that is until he learns his fiancée Tina Enright (Edwards), who's an artist, has had some sort of dream about the events that transpired thus far, including the death I spoke of earlier. Anyway, seems the 2,000 year old, lumpy mashed potato man is alive, and he's got a hankering to go courtin'...and Oscar Goldman's...er, I mean Paul's squeeze seems to fit the bill...on the flipside, Tina finds herself inexplicably drawn to the creature, to which she sneaks into the museum after dark, awakening the beast, and we witness its awesoma power, particularly in smashing through cheap, balsa wood doors, before returning back to immobility. Some other stuff happens, we visit a place called `The Cove of the Blind Fisherman', the scientists perform various tests, and we finally learn that the creature has a name, along with its connection with Tina...all of which leads up to a not so climatic finish (at this point I would have taken any kind of ending).

I think I would have liked this movie better if it hadn't been so exceedingly boring. The science is exceptionally shoddy, the characters plain and lifeless (I never believed for a second Anderson was supposed to be some kind of doctor), performances drab, and the dialog just all around goofy. Below is an example as the men try to wrap their minds around the fact the stony individual is actually alive and has intent...

Inspector: It isn't possible...it has no face, no eyes, and yet it knows where to go.
Dr. Fiorillo: It can only be instinct, something that has survived from long ago to guide it, the way the blind are sometimes guided.
Inspector: But still, it cannot be alive!
Paul: Not the way we know life.
Dr. Fiorillo: It is not dead, as we know death.

What a brain trust...now imagine sitting through 66 minutes of this mind numbing hogwash. I could have dealt with a lot of the inherent faults of this movie if only had the creature been something worth hanging around for, but instead, this Mummy retread just ends up sucking wind. Visualize a man whose entire body is covered in a cast, and then try to picture him as a creature chasing you down the street. You'd probably be able to get away fairly easily, that is unless you're a clumsy clod or prone to bouts of paralyzing fear caused by the most innocuous sights (both of which seemed to be the case in this film). Even at full speed the creature, at best, could manage to move like that of an 80-year-old man shuffling around in his house slippers. The one element that annoyed me more than anything with regards to this movie was the overly expository narration, inserted at various points because either the filmmakers thought their telling of the story not clear enough, or felt the audience would not intelligent enough to pick up on the obvious (I'm leaning towards the latter given condescension is considered an artform in Hollywood). Thing is, the kind of narration present here would have fit a crime/drama type movie, but certainly not a horror film. Also, the story was about as clumsy as the creature...curses, broaches, medallions, it was often difficult to figure out what was supposed to be driving what, and the explanation near the end as for the reasoning why the creature only moved at certain times was about as hokey as one would expect, but certainly not an uncommon plot device in the 50s. I think there was an attempt to create a sense of pathos for the creature, as was somewhat common in the Universal creature features of the 30s and 40s, but it was never fully realized, so, in the end, you neither fear or emphasize with the beast. I did like some aspects about the movie...the women were very attractive, and the music was decent. The sets were okay and the film ran just over an hour (but it felt like two).

This is my first Cheezy Flicks Entertainment DVD, so I really wasn't sure what the quality would be like, but, in general, I found it to be better than expected. The full frame picture looks very clean and sharp and the audio came through very clearly. As far as extras, there are some rough looking previews for other Cheezy Flicks DVD releases like Horrors of the Black Museum (1959), The Headless Ghost (1959), Robot Monster (1953), and The Day of the Triffids (1962). Also included is four or five `Intermission' shorts, the kind theaters and drive-ins used to show to either impart information or tempt you to the snack bar. All in all I'll give two stars for the film, and one extra for Cheezy Flicks Entertainment and their better than average DVD release here.

Cookieman108

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Pointless
JUST FOR HORROR FANS
Pure Eurotrash schlock
Overrated
jess franco's best movie.

Faceless
Starring: Helmut Berger , Brigitte Lahaie , Telly Savalas , Christopher Mitchum , and Stéphane Audran
Director: Jesus Franco
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From one of the world's most prolific horror filmmakers, Jess Franco, director of Vampyros Lesbos, Succubus, Shriek Show's Killer Barbys, and many more! When a powerful industrialists' (Telly Savalas) fashion model daughter (Caroline Munro) goes missing, Detective Sam Morgan (Christopher Mitchum) uncovers clues that lead him to the mad doctor's (Helmut Berger) secret house of surgical horrors.

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Pointless.......2007-02-11

I can't see why people gat so worked up about Jess Franco...this shallow remake of "les yeaux sans visage" is chock full of 80's grue and sharp suits with padded shoulders. It drags in lots of places, and poor old Telly obviously fimed his bits in a day somewhere else. Having said that Chris Mitchum is great, astonishingly like his father but with a career running at only 5% that of Dad, he is likeable, full of charm and holds this together.
Brigitte (phwoar!!)Lahaie is up to her usual standard and at least she keeps her clothes on in this one!.
Great viewing with a meat feast pizza.

JUST FOR HORROR FANS .......2005-07-20

If you're a real horror fan and especially a one of Jess Franco - this movie is for you. It's rather rare and little-known, has decent special make up effects, pretty poor acting and Caroline Munro as one of the stars. If all this is what you collection is missing - this movie is for you. So the good thing about this flick - you can say to someone: "You know, I've got Jess Franco's Faceless". The bad thing you probably won't want to watch it for the second time. Sometimes it seems the director falls into too obsessive and unnecessary erotomania and the movie gets too exploitative. Acting is bad and characters sometimes look silly. But it may be parts of this film's charm. Go ahead if you like B or C horror of 80-s.

Pure Eurotrash schlock.......2004-12-22

Jesus "Jess" Franco is a director that's sort of a secret amongst serious horror film fans. If you're the type of casual fan of the genre who thinks that "Friday the 13th," "Halloween," and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" are the best films the horror industry ever made, you have never heard of Jess Franco. If you think the "Leprechaun" franchise constitutes the apogee of the horror genre, you have never heard of Jess Franco. If you think collecting Wes Craven and John Carpenter films are as far as you need to go to balance out your DVD collection, you have never heard of Jess Franco. I don't mean to give the impression that Franco is the best directorial talent ever seen in the field, because he definitely isn't, but I have found that knowledge about some of this man's films is one of the best ways to distinguish the novices from the veterans. His highly regarded--at least in some quarters--film remains "Vampyros Lesbos," a fascinating take on the age-old vampire legend. If you don't feel up to a vampire film, give his 1988 Eurotrash epic "Faceless" a shot. Whatever you decide to do, Jess Franco might just surprise you.

Although it's not saying much, I would rank "Faceless" as one of the best Franco pictures I have yet seen. The story concerns one Dr. Flamand (Helmut Berger), a plastic surgeon of some repute who has a sister he loves deeply. One day, on the way to the car with this sibling and his depraved female associate Nathalie (Brigitte LaHaie), a disgruntled former patient with grotesque facial scarring caused by a botched surgery flings a vial of acid at the good doctor. Flamand, being a wily sort of fellow, manages to avoid the vitriol. His sister, however, catches the fluid full in the face and collapses in a steaming heap. Her disfigured mug inspires the doctor to embark on a radical new experiment in plastic surgery, one requiring him to peel a face off a healthy woman in order to graft the skin onto his sister's skull. Unfortunately, Flamand doesn't possess the necessary skills to perform such a delicate operation. With Nathalie at his side, the doctor approaches Professor Orloff (Howard Vernon) with the problem. Orloff can't help, either, but he knows someone who can: Dr. Carl Moser (Anton Diffring), a former plastic surgeon with links to the Third Reich knows how to do the surgery. He in fact performed one during the war. Flamand's problem seems to be solved.

Before Moser can work his magic, Flamand and Nathalie must find the right face for the transplant. Enter fashion model and party girl Barbara Hallen (Caroline Munro), who disappears into a holding cell in Flamand's clinic to await the arrival of Moser. Regrettably for Flamand, Barbara's father Terry (Telly Savalas) quickly learns his daughter is missing. Hallen uses his vast wealth to hire a private detective named Sam Morgan (Chris Mitchum) to go to Europe and track down his daughter. It doesn't take as long as you would think for Morgan to catch on to Flamand's trail, thanks in large part to Nathalie foolishly using Barbara's credit card in a village nearby. While Morgan formulates a plan to infiltrate Flamand's clinic and thus hopefully find Barbara, Moser turns up and attempts a surgery with another woman. Big mistake. Apparently, the procedure requires just the right conditions to work. The first operation ends in a big, bloody mess. While Flamand attempts to soothe his increasingly despondent sister, Moser plans another surgery. One thing about those European doctors: they never give up despite living in countries with socialized health care. It goes without saying, or it should, that Morgan eventually cracks the case wide open. The only thing I want to know is this: what the heck did Telly Savalas's character say on the phone at the end of the movie? And what was up with his voice?

"Faceless" is a lot of fun because it is trashy, depraved, and gory. In other words, it provides everything I look for in this type of film. Franco tries hard to present an "elegant" film, but it's obvious from the start we're watching pure Eurotrash schlock. The cheesiness of that opening "classy" song (which frequently reappears at critical moments throughout the film) had me rolling on the floor before a single character marches onscreen, and the actors' outfits and hairstyles are the height of '80s excess. There's also something special about adult film star and B-movie horror actress Brigitte LaHaie strutting around in fancy clothes while acting out her character's depraved cravings, cravings director Franco allows full and gratuitous vent in the film. Throw in plenty of gore--including the icky operations shown in gooey close-up and a huge drill bit passing through a body--and "Faceless" is sure to deliver the thrills. While it might surprise some to see Telly Savalas in the film, remember that he often made low budget European flicks. He played, for example, the ominous butler in Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil." As for the beautiful Caroline Munro, her presence always adds luster to a low budget film.

The DVD version of "Faceless" comes with a nice picture and audio transfer and a handful of extras. Trailers for "Faceless," "Virgin of Nuremberg," "Flesh for the Beast," and "Bronx Warriors" grace the disc. Also included for our viewing pleasure are stills, two commentary tracks, and interviews with Franco, Munro, and Chris Mitchum. Munro's comments about working with Franco, her modeling career, and her screen career are worth a watch. I recommend "Faceless" to anyone just embarking on a Franco viewing excursion. Watching this film before "Vampire Lesbos" wouldn't be a bad idea, either, since this one is more accessible. Enjoy!

Overrated.......2004-10-04

So far I'm batting less than 500 with Jesus Franco movies that I have bought. His movies are certainly not for everyone but some of them are true guilty pleasures. I love Vampiros Lesbos and Sadomania. I even love selected parts of Tender Flesh. Other Franco films also have their great moments. On the other hand, some of his movies really suck. Faceless is somewhere in between the two extremes. I bought it because of some of the glowing customer reviews and because I like Caroline Monroe and Brigitte Lahaie, etc. Unfortunately, in this movie they were never used to their potential. Although they were both older when this movie was made and clearly past their prime, they were both extremely beautiful women and yet they never get naked or even close. Unlike other Franco movies with rampant nudity there are only glimpses of minor actresses and then only briefly. Veteran actors Telly Savalas, Anton Diffring, and Howard Vernon appear in this movie and all appear old and extremely frail. Franco's wife Lina Romay appears briefly for about 30 seconds but looked good. Helmut Berger is an esteemed plastic surgeon who runs a clinic near Paris for treating aging rich women to restore their youthful appearance. Brigitte is his loyal and homicidal assistant. His beautiful sister gets hit in the face with acid by a disgruntled former patient. Recognizing that he is in over his head on this one, the good doctor hunts down Diffring, an escaped Nazi doctor from the holocaust who has done this kind of work before. They grab Caroline to donate her face. Her father is tycoon Telly Savalas who hires Chris Mitchum to find her. That's the plot. This movie promises much but then fails to deliver. It never actually gets to where I want to go. It only tantalyzed me with thoughts of what might have been. The best part is the actual operation itself right at the end. It actually felt more like a Jean Rollin movie except without the beautiful nudity.

jess franco's best movie........2004-05-04

Dr. Flamand (helmut berger) kidnaps beautiful women and cuts their faces off in experiments for his sister. His beautiful assitant (Brigitte Lahaie) helps abduct the women , one a fashion model played by genre favorite Caroline Munro. There is a descent amount of gore , not like the package plays it up to be. telly savalas has a small role. The extras are cool but the interviews go on forever and the still gallery is poorly set up.This is jess franco's best movie , but if you've seen anything else he directed that's not saying much.

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More Than Meets the Eye
Another good horror starring Steele
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"I'm going to rid you of your vulgar ways..."

The Faceless Monster
Starring: Barbara Steele , Paul Muller , Helga Liné , Laurence Clift , and Giuseppe Addobbati
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ONLY 81 MN.......2007-01-15

OK I DON'T THE OTHERS DVD OF THIS MOVIE IT SEEMS THEY ARE 3 BUT THIS ONE IS NOT THE INTEGRAL VERSION ONLY 81 MN AND NOT 101 MN AS INDICATED SO I DON T KNOW WHAT IS THE GOOD DVD IF SOMONE COULD TELL ME THANK YOU VERY MUCH

More Than Meets the Eye.......2006-11-17

This horror film is distinguished with a rather intriguing and complex plot raising it far above the routine and mundane Italian horror film genre output of the 60s. Staring the exceptionally exquisite and alluring British born beauty Barbara Steele this film is very stylish and has vividly haunting atmosphere thanks in part to Enzo Barboni's black and white cinematography and Ennio Morricone's score. In a film full of images of torture, death, lunacy and other bizarre goings on for the sake of avarice how could one go wrong indeed especially with Miss Steele in the cast? This is an effectively well crafted bit of horror.

Another good horror starring Steele.......2006-06-03

Barbara Steele shines in this eerie and oftentimes offbeat horror film, although the dialogue is sometimes unintentionally funny, for instance, when the sadistic husband calls her lover her "filthy friend".

This film wouldn't have been as good without the great nightmare sequences (some of the best I've ever seen) and equally haunting soundtrack. Of course, the film also wouldn't have worked without Steele; her dark and mysterious presence is always right for horror, and her acting is always superb.

I am in Dork Heaven!.......2006-05-06

I've been looking high and low for an uncut version of this movie and Retro Media has done a bang-up job of restoring it. The transfer is clear, the sound quality is top-natch and Barbara does her own dub! ( insert pathetic squeal of joy ) The still gallery was a nice bonus too. Retro Media, you are truly gods among men. Keep up the good work. So, if you're a gothic Italian horror/Barbara Steele buff, then this is a sound investment.

"I'm going to rid you of your vulgar ways...".......2005-08-25

I have to say, I wasn't all that impressed with Nightmare Castle (1965). Perhaps the problem lies within the presentation. Obviously the film has fallen into the public domain, meaning no one owns the rights, and, subsequently anyone can put it out there for sale. That's why there are at least six different DVD releases. The one I viewed, released by Alpha Video (it has a colorful picture of a man and woman shackled to the dungeon wall) runs approximately 82 minutes, while The Internet Movie Database lists versions that run 91 minutes, and even 101 minutes. Would have those ten or twenty extra minutes have made the difference between being a so-so film and a great one? Who knows? Co-written and directed by Mario Caiano (Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules, Train for Durango), Nightmare Castle actually goes by quite a few names including The Faceless Monster, Night of the Doomed, Lovers Beyond the Tomb, Lovers from Beyond the Tomb, Orgasmo, and then the original Italian title Gil Amanti d'oltretomba. Starring in the movie is Barbara `I once worked with Fellini!' Steele (Black Sunday, The Pit and the Pendulum), along with Paul Muller (Barbed Wire Dolls), Helga Liné (Agent 077 - Mission Bloody Mary), Rik Battaglia (Shoot, Gringo... Shoot!), and Laurence Clift in his only on screen appearance.

The story begins pretty well, with some really creepy organ music, followed by the opening credits. After this we see a couple Stephen (Muller) and Muriel (Steele) Aerosmith (rock on!)...er, wait, it's Arrowsmith...he's a scientist, and she's, as far as I can tell, a boozehound (she'll later add trollop to her repertoire). Anyway, the two don't seem to get along too well, punctuated by what has to be the most awkward onscreen kiss I've ever seen (their lips don't actually touch so much as they mash their faces together), and we learn Stephen is preparing to leave for a conference or something, which he does, thus leaving his wife in the amorous arms of David (Battaglia), the strapping young stable hand...actually, he's really not that young, more like middle age, but he's a hell of a lot younger than Stephen. The two pitch their smoochy smoochy woo tent in the greenhouse, only to be caught by Stephen, as he really didn't leave at all (the sneak), and thus begins the whippings, and various other forms of tortuous punishment (Stephen is vindictive, if nothing else). Muriel and David do end up dying (sort of) for their transgressions, and normally the handsome estate and family fortune, which was all in Muriel's name, would go to Stephen, but because of her underlying hatred towards her husband, Muriel had fortuitously changed her will prior her demise, leaving everything to her up until recently institutionalized stepsister Jenny, who happens to look exactly like Muriel, the only difference being Jenny has blonde hair (Steele plays a dual role, donning a blonde wig to play the part of Jenny). Stephen plans now include marrying Jenny, preying on her delicate mental state, driving her back to the asylum, and assuming control of the family fortune...that is to say unless Muriel has anything to say about it...and she does...the vengeful little minx (I should say dead minx)...

Creaky doors, darkened crypts, dungeons, laboratories, hypodermic needles, candelabras, transfusions, whippings, electrocutions, bloodcurdling screams, acid drips, dead bodies...this film would seem to have it all...so why was I kinda down on it? Perhaps it was its excessively talky, painfully expository nature. Criminey...this is one of the more verbose movies I've seen in awhile. I don't mind a lot of communication if there's something to say, but for cripes sakes this is supposed to be a horror film...hit me with the scary visuals and some tension. Don't bore me to tears telling me what you're going to do (in great detail) prior to actually doing it...to be fair, the dialog was dubbed over, and poorly so...perhaps the original dialog with subtitles would have gone down better, but whatever....actually the first 20 minutes contained a whole lot of material, but then things slowed down, only picking up again within the last 15 minutes. There are a lot of things to like about this film, the main thing being Ms. Steele herself. She's very attractive, having a most distinctive appearance fitting ever so well within the genre, especially in term of her large, saucer-like, expressive peepers. She did pretty well here, presenting two, separate characters in Muriel, the saucy, strong-willed, sexy philanderer, and Jenny, the malleable, weak-willed bubblehead with the fractured psyche. As for the rest of the cast, they did so-so, the only other standout being the hammy (on rye bread, please) Muller as the wormy Stephen, who, incidentally, looks as if he could be a distant relative to Don Knotts. He really wasn't all that frightening as a villain type, but he was awfully sleazy, getting it on not only with the housekeeper, but also hooking up with his recently departed wife's stepsister. Part of his masterful plan involved inviting Jenny's therapist Dr. Derek Joyce (Clift) from the asylum to stay at the castle, which I didn't quite understand, but, apparently it was important to the plot that he be around, as to be the sane half of our protagonist duo. I did like the set pieces, along with the exteriors, as they really helped set the moody, gothic tones of the story, along with the creepy organ music. I did not like the piano music, though...it wasn't so much the piano music itself (which was pretty pedestrian), but the fact the same bit of music was used like 20 times...talk about monotonous. If you're a Steele fan, then you'll feel compelled to check this out, but if you're a casual viewer, you might want to start with Black Sunday (1960), an infinitely better film, and a lot more fun. If you're interested in this film, pay attention to the studio releasing the film, something which the Amazon website does list. If it says Gotham Distribution (apparently another name for Alpha Video), you might want to keep on going, as it is the extremely truncated version of the movie (Amazon mixes the reviews for all the different versions together, often confusing the hell out of the matter). My favorite scene involved Stephen hotwiring a bath for Dr. Joyce, and then things going not quite as planned...

As I mentioned prior, the version I have is the Alpha Video DVD release, and features DVD cover artwork consisting of a brutalized couple shackled to a wall. The fullscreen picture on this DVD looks pretty poor, feeling washed out, murky, and even a bit mushy, it that makes sense. Also evident is wear and tear, artificing, and even a missing frame or two. I own a number of Alpha Video releases and I swear they actually go out of their way to find the crummiest public domain prints for their DVD releases. The audio, however, is surprisingly clear and loud. There aren't really any extras (what would you expect for the price?) except for perhaps a rough looking trailer for the film, along with a video catalog where you can scroll through the covers of about 100 Alpha DVD releases.

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Faceless
Starring: Stéphane Audran , Helmut Berger , Anton Diffring , Florence Guerin , and Brigitte Lahaie
Director: Jesús Franco
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The Deathmaster/The Faceless Monster (2 pack)

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The Deathmaster: A charismatic long-haired vampire finds himself becoming a guru for a gang of Southern California flower children in this hippie-dippy horror movie. The Faceless Monster: Known in U.S. distribution as Nightmare Castle, this eerie Gothic thriller offers two Barbara Steeles for the price of one. Steele first portrays the wife of a deranged scientist (Paul Muller) whose latest experiments involve electro-stimulation of human blood. When the mad doctor discovers his wife is having an affair, he tortures, disfigures and kills her alongside her lover, then removes and preserves the hearts of the victims, using their blood to restore youth and beauty to his own lover. When the madman discovers that his late wife left all her wealth to her mentally unstable sister (Steele again, a blonde this time), he quickly sets about courting and marrying the poor girl, then proceeds to drive her completely mad in order to inherit her fortune. It may be an easier task than he predicted too easy for comfort, in fact since the honeymoon is attended by the spectral presence of the murdered lovers who have risen from their own ashes to avenge their deaths. This film's pervasive feeling of impending doom is aided by shadowy, low-contrast cinematography and a robust score from Ennio Morricone, and features a riveting performance from Steele, whose large eyes pierce the screen with dangerous beauty.

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