Container of (work): Vendetta di Lady Morgan (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Vendetta di Lady Morgan (Motion picture). English. $i Container of (work): $a Horror (Motion picture) $i Container of (expression): $a Horror (Motion picture). $l English. Container of (work): Terzo occhio (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Terzo occhio (Motion picture). English. Container of (work): Strega in amore (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Strega in amore (Motion picture). English. Vengeance of Lady Morgan. Blancheville monster. Third eye. Witch. Container of (work): Horror (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Horror (Motion picture). English.
Notes:
Lady Morgan's vengeance: Paul Muller, Barbara Nelli, Erika Blanc, Gordon Mitchell. The Blancheville monster: Gérard Tichy, Leo Anchoriz, Ombretta Colli, Helga Liné, Irán Eory, Vanni Materassi, Paco Morán, Emilia Wolkowicz, Harry Winter. The third eye: Franco Nero, Gioia Pascal. The witch: Rosanna Schiaffino, Richard Johnson. Title from container. Individual film titles from disc labels. Motion picture adaptation notes, production credits and production company names taken from IMDb pages for each film, viewed on November 14, 2022. Italian title of Lady Morgan's vengeance: La vendetta di Lady Morgan. Italian title of The Blancheville monster: Horror. Italian title of The third eye: Il terzo occhio. Italian title of The witch: La strega in amore. Mino Guerrini's last name misspelled as Guerinni in publisher description. The Blancheville monster based (uncredited) on The fall of the house of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. The witch based on the novel Aura by Carlos Fuentes. Lady Morgan's vengeance originally produced as a motion picture in 1965. The Blancheville monster originally produced as a motion picture in 1963. The third eye and The witch originally produced as motion pictures in 1966. Widescreen (1.85:1). Special features (Lady Morgan's vengeance): Original lossless Italian soundtrack; brand new video introduction by Mark Thompson Ashworth; brand new audio commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas; brand new video essay on the film by Kat Ellinger; brand new video interview with Erika Blanc; newly edited video interview with Paul Muller; newly edited audio interview with Massimo Pupillo; complete original cineromanzo published in 1971; trailer; image gallery. Special features (The Blancheville monster): Original Italian and English front and end titles; original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks; brand new video introduction by Italian film devotee Mark Thompson Ashworth; brand new audio commentary by filmmaker and film historian Paul Anthony Nelson; brand new video essay on the film by writer and pop culture historian Keith Allison; brand new video interview with author and filmmaker Antonio Tentori; opening credits for the US release of the film; image gallery; trailer. Special features (The third eye): Original Italian and English front and end titles; original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks; brand new video introduction by Italian film devotee Mark Thompson Ashworth; brand new audio commentary by author and critic Rachael Nisbet; brand new video essay on the film by author and filmmaker Lindsay Hallam; newly edited video interview with actress Erika Blanc; image gallery. Special features (The witch): Original Italian and English front and end titles; original lossless mono and English soundtracks; brand new video introduction by Mark Thompson Ashworth; brand new audio commentary by Kat Ellinger; brand new video essay on the film by Miranda Corcoran; brand new video interview with Antonio Tentori; image gallery. Accompanied by book (80 pages) containing new writing on the films by Roberto Curti, Rob Talbot, Jerome Reuter, Rod Barnett and Kimberly Lindbergs.
Contents:
(1966) (109 min.) The witch / [Arco Film] ; [screenwriters, Ugo Liberatore, Damiano Damiani] ; Damiano Damiani ; [screenwriters, Ugo Liberatore, Damiano Damiani] (1965) (86 min.) -- [Disc 2]. The Blancheville monster / [Film Columbus, Llama Films] ; directed by Alberto De Martino (as Martin Herbert) ; produced by Alberto Aguilera ; screenplay by Giovanni Grimaldi (as Jean Grimaud) and Bruno Corbucci (as Gordon Wilson Jr.) (1963) (90 min.) -- [Disc 3]. The third eye / [Panda Societa per L'Industria Cinematografica] ; [screenwriters, Mino Guerrini (as James Warren), Piero Regnoli (as Dean Craig)] ; [director, Mino Guerrini] (1966) (98 min.) -- [Disc 4]. The witch / [Arco Film] ; [screenwriters, Ugo Liberatore, Damiano Damiani] ; Damiano Damiani ; [screenwriters, Ugo Liberatore, Damiano Damiani] (1966) (109 min.)
Summary:
"While groundbreaking director Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath) remains the most well-known purveyor of Italian Gothic horror, many other filmmakers tried their hand at the form throughout the 1960s as part of a hugely prolific and popular cycle. Gothic Fantastico presents four off-the-beaten path titles from this classic period, all of which demonstrate Italy's ability to expand genre beyond the classic literary monsters that dominated elsewhere. Gaslighting abounds in Massimo Pupillo's Lady Morgan's Vengeance - a delicate tale of romance and mystery, with a sprinkling of sadism and the supernatural - as newlywed Sir Harold Morgan (Paul Muller, Nightmare Castle) attempts to destroy his new bride (Barbara Nelli, Double Face) with help from his sinister maid (Erika Blanc, Kill, Baby... Kill!). Meanwhile, the perverse influence of Poe is used to great effect in Alberto De Martino's The Blancheville Monster - a tale of family curses and madmen in the attic, as Emilie de Blancheville (Ombretta Colli, Gladiator of Rome) returns home to her brother Roderic (Gérard Tichy, Hatchet for the Honeymoon) and discovers her own family may be out for her blood. Mino Guerinni's The Third Eye features not only a very early role for Italian cult film icon Franco Nero, but a plot that borrows several elements from Hitchcock, layered with a whiff of necrophilia. Finally, Damiano Damiani's The Witch takes a more avant-garde approach, when a young historian (Richard Johnson, Zombie Flesh Eaters) is lured to work for an ageing woman, only to be held captive when he becomes obsessed with her beautiful daughter (Rosanna Schiaffino, The Killer Reserved Nine Seats). Madness, obsession and messed up families are the order of the day in these four lesser-known monochrome gems from Italy's peak Gothic period, now fully restored in 2K from their original camera negatives for the first time and presented alongside an array of in-depth extras."--Publisher's description.
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