Italian Gothic Horror Movies 1957-'69
As listed in 'Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969', by Roberto Curti
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- DirectorRiccardo FredaMario BavaStarsGianna Maria CanaleCarlo D'AngeloDario MichaelisParis. Young girls are found dead, drained from their blood. A journalist investigates these murders while the beautiful Gisele, from a noble family, tries to seduce him.
- DirectorStenoStarsRenato RascelSylva KoscinaLia ZoppelliA baron down on his luck has to sell his family castle to pay off his mounting debt. After the castle is turned into a hotel, he's hired as a bellboy. But all is not lost, as he discovers he has a rich uncle; unfortunately, he's a vampire.
- DirectorAnton Giulio MajanoStarsAlberto LupoSusanne LoretSergio FantoniAn exotic dancer is disfigured in a car accident. A scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty. To preserve her appearance the doctor must give her additional treatments using glands taken from murdered women.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsBarbara SteeleJohn RichardsonAndrea ChecchiA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsPierre BriceScilla GabelWolfgang PreissIn 19th century Holland, a professor of fine arts and an unlicensed surgeon run a secret lab where the professor's ill daughter receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become macabre art.
- DirectorMarino GirolamiStarsUgo TognazziCarlo CroccoloRaimondo VianelloProfessor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers his to the body of Giacinto Floria, a nice teacher in a women's college. Poor Giacinto becomes a sex maniac to the puzzlement of his girlfriend Mafalda.
- DirectorPiero RegnoliStarsLyla RoccoWalter BrandiMaria GiovanniniFive beautiful showgirls are trapped by a storm and find refuge in a creepy old castle. The owner of the castle, a strange nobleman, has a secret laboratory in the basement and has his own plans for the girls.
- DirectorRenato PolselliStarsHélène RémyTina GlorianiWalter BrandiA troupe of beautiful young dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister, spooky old castle, not knowing that it is home to a group of vampires.
- DirectorPaolo HeuschStarsBarbara LassCarl SchellCurt LowensAt a girls' school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf/man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly-arrived teacher.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsBarbara SteeleRobert FlemyngSilvano TranquilliIn 1897 London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances - and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor.
- DirectorRoberto MauriStarsWalter BrandiDieter EpplerGraziella GranataIn 19th century Austria, a newlywed couple in an old castle soon are targeted by a savage vampire who is hellbent on destroying both their entire lives when he centers his main focus on the bride. Complications ensue for everyone involved.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsMichèle MercierLidia AlfonsiBoris KarloffBoris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
- DirectorAlberto De MartinoStarsGérard TichyLeo AnchórizOmbretta ColliThe beautiful young daughter of a crazed count fears that she will fall victim to the family curse - to be sacrificed to fulfill an ancient family legend.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsBarbara SteelePeter BaldwinElio JottaA woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
- DirectorGiuseppe VeggezziStarsChristopher LeeGeorge ArdissonBella CortezA group of dropouts find an old man (Sir Christopher Lee) in a castle. The old man subsequently turns into the Devil and seizes them.
- DirectorAntonio BoccaciStarsAnnie AlbertiAdriano MicantoniMarco MarianiA woman is tormented by dreams that she is the reincarnation of a dead countess. Her father, trying to get her to stop the dreams, takes her to a village near the castle of the late countess. In the village she meets a reporter who is investigating reports of the deaths of two young women who it is believed were killed by a creature that lives in the castle.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsRossana PodestàGeorges RivièreChristopher LeeWomen are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsDaliah LaviChristopher LeeTony KendallThe ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorized, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly betrothed to his brother.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiSergio CorbucciStarsBarbara SteeleGeorges RivièreMargrete RobsahmA journalist takes a bet that he can spend the night in a haunted castle on All Hallow's Eve. During his stay, he bears witness to the castle's gruesome past coming to life before him, and falls in love with a beautiful female ghost.
- DirectorWarren KieferLuciano RicciStarsChristopher LeeGaia GermaniPhilippe LeroyCount Drago invites entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans.
- DirectorGino ManginiStarsGiotto TempestiniDiana MartínTony KendallA serial killer called "The Hyena" is finally caught and eventually hanged. However, his body disappears before it can be buried, and soon thereafter dead bodies start turning up in a small village.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsBarbara SteeleGeorge ArdissonHalina ZalewskaA woman under suspicion of witchcraft is burned alive. Her curse brings her back from the dead for revenge.
- DirectorAlfredo GiannettiCarlo LizzaniGiulio QuestiStarsJuliette MaynielFrank WolffGraziella GranataAn anthology comedy consisting of three segments.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsChristopher LeeAdriana AmbesiUrsula DavisCount Karnstein sends for a doctor to help his sick daughter Laura. Her nurse believes she is possessed by the spirit of a dead ancestor, Carmilla.
- DirectorRenato PolselliStarsMarco MarianiGiuseppe AddobbatiBarbara HawardsA theater troupe rent an old theater which has been closed for years. While busy rehearsing for their next play, an elderly caretaker repeatedly warns them of impending doom if they don't leave immediately.