Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.
Direction
Freda's final film — baroque, unhinged, utterly committed to excess.
Cinematography
Fog-drenched estate, candlelit black masses, fever dream logic.
Practical Effects
Gloriously nasty practical effects that earn their gross-out moments.
Director
Riccardo Freda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Riccardo Freda disowned this film and had it credited to 'Robert Hampton' — ironic given its themes of hidden identity.
Laura Gemser's Beryl serves as the film's erotic anchor, a deliberate echo of her Black Emanuelle persona dropped into gothic horror territory.
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