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Italian cinema: Horror

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Nicolas Roeg

John and Laura Baxter are a young couple who are both profoundly traumatised when their five-year-old daughter Christine drowns accidentally at their home. Deciding that a change of scene will do them both good, they head for Venice, where John finds work restoring a dilapidated Byzantine church. With her husband busy, Laura allows herself to be befriended by two elderly English sisters, one of whom is blind and claims to have psychic powers... [More...]

The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)

Mario Bava

Whilst on holiday in Rome, a young American, Nora Davis, visits her bedridden elderly aunt. When her aunt suddenly dies that night, Nora rushes out into the street to fetch her doctor, Marcello Bassi, but is attacked by a mugger. When she comes to, Nora is horrified to see a young woman collapse in front of her, with a knife in her back... [More...]

I tre volti della paura (1963)

Mario Bava

The Telephone:
Shortly after returning to her apartment one evening, Parisian call-girl Rosy begins to receive a series of threatening phone calls. She recognises the caller as Frank, the man she betrayed some time ago. It appears that Frank has just escaped from prison and intends to take his revenge by killing her... [More...]

Kill Baby, Kill (1966)

Mario Bava

Dr Eswai arrives in a remote Transylvanian village to perform an autopsy on a young woman who has recently died, apparently by impaling herself on railing spikes. He is met by Inspector Kruger, who reveals that several girls have died in a similar manner over the past few years. Eswai is surprised to find a coin in the heart of the dead woman and discovers it was placed there by Ruth, the village sorceress, to give her peace after death... [More...]

The Mask of Satan (1960)

Mario Bava

Moldavia, in the early 1600s. Princess Asa Vajda is sentenced to death, along with her lover Javuto, for consorting with the Devil. Metal masks lined with sharp spikes are hammered onto their faces, but before their bodies can be burnt a storm breaks and extinguishes the flames. Two centuries later, Dr Kruvajan and his young associate Dr Gorobec are on their way to a medical conference when their carriage breaks down... [More...]

The Whip and the Body (1963)

Mario Bava

It has been many years since Kurt Menliff has been disowned by his father, Count Vladimir, after driving a servant girl to suicide. Now, he has returned to the old family home, uninvited and unwelcome, ostensibly to attend his brother’s wedding to the beautiful Nevenka. But, as his father suspects, Kurt has a darker motive... [More...]

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