Directed by Sergio Bergonzelli • 1970 • Italy
Starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Fernando Sancho, Pier Angeli
Nighttime. A peal of thunder. A severed head rolls across the carpeted floor. A blood-stained sword lies next to it. In an isolated castle by the sea, a murder has occurred. Meanwhile, police are in hot pursuit of a criminal who is evading capture on a speeding motorbike. He takes refuge in the overgrown castle grounds and he sees a pale woman burying a corpse in a shallow grave. Thirteen years later, after being recaptured and serving his sentence, the man returns to the castle, intent on blackmail—and maybe a few other things. One of the most deliriously out-there giallo thrillers ever made brings incest, madness, Etruscan skeletons, a Nazi death camp, and dueling divas Pier Angeli and Eleonora Rossi Drago together for a wild psychedelic nightmare that approaches the abstract.
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