Greta is a beautiful young woman abused by her brother Franz and left to die in childbirth by her illicit lover, the aristocrat Dr. von Ravensbrück. Bereft with grief, Franz reanimates his dead sister using a formula engraved on an ancient Incan medallion. Greta then returns as an undead avenging angel, reaping revenge on the Ravensbrück family and her manically possessive brother.
Cinematography
Misty estates and corpse-pale skin like a sick painting
Acting
Kinski doing Kinski—unpredictable, terrifying, magnetic
Costume
Greta's white gowns versus all that arterial spray
Director
Joe D'Amato
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ewa Aulin, fresh from Candy (1968), took this role during her brief Italian exploitation period before disappearing from cinema entirely.
This was D'Amato's first horror film under his own name—before this he shot porn and westerns, which explains the chaotic erotic-grotesque energy.
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