Enjoyable and above average terror movie revolving around the haunted statue plot , and a relentless vengeance with a perturbed ghost appearing and seeking revenge , causing a real nightmare with creepy murders and ghastly events . At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an ancient sculpture is recovered . Soon after , a series of murders begin and the supertitious villagers believe that the statue displays a doomed curse . .So shocking! Do you dare see it! Warning ! See it with someone who's shockproof! Black Sign of Death Is On This House! Horror... sharp as a razor's edge!. Written in Blood! The Ghost makes you shiver and quiver ¡ . Eerie , Horrific , Bloodcurling ¡
A Gothic film with supernatural events , surprises , tension and suspenseful happenings . The horrible intrigue is unfolding little by little, suspense moves in crescendo and twists and turns break out at the end of the movie . Set at the ordinary sinister mansion 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 . Surprisingly realized with startling visual content and decently scripted by director Camillo Mastrocinque himself , based on the novel novel "Malombra" by Antonio Fogazzaro , resulting in an attractive and intriguing horror movie with sensational atmosphere . Barbara Steele performs a dual character in his last major Italian horror movie . She gives a strong acting as a woman possessed by the spirit of a statue that carries an ancient malediction . Great and memorable Barbara Steele , here become a terror myth . As Barbara Steele is splendid , as always , she was the most beautiful star of the greatest horror masterpiece of Italian film, ¨Mario Bava's Black Sunday¨ or Mask of the demon (1960) , after following its American success, AIP brought Barbara to America, to star in ¨Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum¨ (1961) , she won a role in ¨Federico Fellini's Fellini 8½¨ (1963); she only had a small character , but it was really stunning . Reportedly, Fellini wanted to use her more in the film, but she was hired to leave Rome to start work on her next horror movie, ¨The horrible secret of doctor Hitchcock¨ (1962). More horror movies continued , such as ¨Lo spettro¨ (1963), ¨Nightmare Castle¨ (1964), ¨Un angelo per Satana¨ (1966) and others ; these successes lead to her being typecast in the horror genre, where she more often than not appeared in Italian movies with a dubbed voice. Appearing in the British ¨The Curse of the Crimson Altar¨ (1968), which was mainly eye candy , with scantily-clad women in a cult. Unfortunately, Barbara got sick of being typecast in horror movies . In Un angelo per Satana (1966) Steele is well accompanied by a fine cast , standing out Anthony Steffen who may be a name best remembered by Spaghetti Western aficionados, but in his day, from the mid-'60s to the early '70s , Steffen was one of the most popular actors of the genre - at the time cheap B movies- , now revered cult classics . The handsome, Italian-born - actually at the Brazilian embassy in Rome - Antonio Luiz de Teffè von Hoonholtz began working in films as a studio messenger for Vittorio De Sica . From there, Steffen began acting in sword-and-sandal epics, later moving onto the Western genre , where he found his niche . Unlike fellow Spaghetti star Clint Eastwood, however, Steffen never became a top international box-office attraction . Being accompanied by a lot of familar faces from Italian cinema, such as : Claudio Gora who married in real life to Marina Berti playing the Housekeeper, Ursula Davis , Vassili Karis , Mario Brega , Aldo Berti , Halina Zalewska , among others.
Displaying a thrilling and suspenseful musical score by Francesco De Massi . It contains a dark and sinister cinematography in black and white by cameraman Giuseppe Aquari with filled with lights and shades. The motion picture was competently directed by. Camillo Mastrocinque who also made another notorious terror film : ¨Crypt of the vampire¨ with Christopher Lee . In addition , he directed a number of Toto vehicles as : ¨Toto Peppino e la malafemmina¨ , ¨Toto al inferno¨ , ¨Toto Peppino e i fuorilegge¨, ¨Toto lascia o radoppia?¨ . This horrifying picture of the Italian Gothic has a high rating 6.5/10 . Decent and better than average terror movie.
A Gothic film with supernatural events , surprises , tension and suspenseful happenings . The horrible intrigue is unfolding little by little, suspense moves in crescendo and twists and turns break out at the end of the movie . Set at the ordinary sinister mansion 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 . Surprisingly realized with startling visual content and decently scripted by director Camillo Mastrocinque himself , based on the novel novel "Malombra" by Antonio Fogazzaro , resulting in an attractive and intriguing horror movie with sensational atmosphere . Barbara Steele performs a dual character in his last major Italian horror movie . She gives a strong acting as a woman possessed by the spirit of a statue that carries an ancient malediction . Great and memorable Barbara Steele , here become a terror myth . As Barbara Steele is splendid , as always , she was the most beautiful star of the greatest horror masterpiece of Italian film, ¨Mario Bava's Black Sunday¨ or Mask of the demon (1960) , after following its American success, AIP brought Barbara to America, to star in ¨Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum¨ (1961) , she won a role in ¨Federico Fellini's Fellini 8½¨ (1963); she only had a small character , but it was really stunning . Reportedly, Fellini wanted to use her more in the film, but she was hired to leave Rome to start work on her next horror movie, ¨The horrible secret of doctor Hitchcock¨ (1962). More horror movies continued , such as ¨Lo spettro¨ (1963), ¨Nightmare Castle¨ (1964), ¨Un angelo per Satana¨ (1966) and others ; these successes lead to her being typecast in the horror genre, where she more often than not appeared in Italian movies with a dubbed voice. Appearing in the British ¨The Curse of the Crimson Altar¨ (1968), which was mainly eye candy , with scantily-clad women in a cult. Unfortunately, Barbara got sick of being typecast in horror movies . In Un angelo per Satana (1966) Steele is well accompanied by a fine cast , standing out Anthony Steffen who may be a name best remembered by Spaghetti Western aficionados, but in his day, from the mid-'60s to the early '70s , Steffen was one of the most popular actors of the genre - at the time cheap B movies- , now revered cult classics . The handsome, Italian-born - actually at the Brazilian embassy in Rome - Antonio Luiz de Teffè von Hoonholtz began working in films as a studio messenger for Vittorio De Sica . From there, Steffen began acting in sword-and-sandal epics, later moving onto the Western genre , where he found his niche . Unlike fellow Spaghetti star Clint Eastwood, however, Steffen never became a top international box-office attraction . Being accompanied by a lot of familar faces from Italian cinema, such as : Claudio Gora who married in real life to Marina Berti playing the Housekeeper, Ursula Davis , Vassili Karis , Mario Brega , Aldo Berti , Halina Zalewska , among others.
Displaying a thrilling and suspenseful musical score by Francesco De Massi . It contains a dark and sinister cinematography in black and white by cameraman Giuseppe Aquari with filled with lights and shades. The motion picture was competently directed by. Camillo Mastrocinque who also made another notorious terror film : ¨Crypt of the vampire¨ with Christopher Lee . In addition , he directed a number of Toto vehicles as : ¨Toto Peppino e la malafemmina¨ , ¨Toto al inferno¨ , ¨Toto Peppino e i fuorilegge¨, ¨Toto lascia o radoppia?¨ . This horrifying picture of the Italian Gothic has a high rating 6.5/10 . Decent and better than average terror movie.