

New Yorker Liza Merril inherits an old hotel in Louisiana and invests her savings to reopen the place, unaware that the hotel houses the body of a dead painter murdered decades earlier, and that the location is about to become a gateway to Hell.
Practical Effects
Fulci's effects team were clearly unwell and we thank them.
Direction
Plot coherence? Abandoned. Atmosphere? MAXIMUM.
Score
Fabio Frizzi's synths that ooze dread.

Director
Lucio Fulci
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned as a 'video nasty' in the UK, which only cemented its legend. The British moral panic basically printed Fulci's paychecks.
The infamous tarantula scene used real spiders—and yes, they were actually biting that poor actor's face. Method acting, Fulci-style.