The motion picture was stylishly and strikingly shot by Bava, filmed in parallel orbit to those Roger Corman ( Edgar Allan Poe cycle) and produced by American International (James H. Eerie and suspenseful musical score by Roberto Nicolisi, though in American version was composed by Lex Baxter, Corman's usual. ![]() This genuinely creepy tale is photographed by Ubaldo Terzano and Bava himself with magentas, shades of ochre, translucently pale turquoises and deep orange-red reflecting paleness on the victims. This omnibus terror is plenty of thrills and chills in glimmer color and in lurid paste with sensational results. Bava's second great hit (the first was Black Sunday or Mask of the demon) surprisingly realized with startling visual content and well scripted by Marcello Fondato and Albert Bevilacqua. 3) ¨The drop of water¨ by Chekhov : In the early 1900s, a nurse (Jacqueline Pierreux, mother of actor Jean Pierre Leaud, 400 blows) steals a ring from a medium dead and she seeks avenge, then a ghastly specter arises, exacting cruel revenge for past robbery. 2) ¨The Wurdalak¨ by Aleksey Tolstoi : In a night of nightmare during the early 1800s, a Russian noble (Mark Damon, usual in Spaghetti Western) and a family (exceptional Boris Karloff, a gorgeous Susy Andersen, and Massimo Roghi) stumble vampires who must kill those love and go after their descendants the undead vampires of hell terrorize the house in a orgy of stark horror. This terrifying film with plenty of vampires, weird deeds and murders is formed by three stories proceeded in some memorably horrific set-pieces : 1) ¨The telephone¨ by author Snyder : A prostitute (Michele Mercier) terrorized in her flat by phone calls from a broken-out inmate (Milo Quesada) receives visit her lover (Lidia Alfonsi).
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