Continuing ICM's Italian and Cult challenges,I started looking for a series/collection I could watch. Whilst checking other titles,I found a Barbara Steele box set that I had picked up years ago,which led to me opening the set,by freeing the creatures from the grave.
View on the film:
Treating producer Ralph Zucker to the "credit" as he disowned the film, director Massimo Pupillo makes his dissatisfaction visible in the first half by overlaying a dominant narration,that drains the atmosphere from the crumbling Gothic Horror set. Opening the family graves in the second half, Pupillo pulls in the Gothic chills with a clever use of roaming shadows to represent the unseen monster, and sticky, plague-ridden practical effects revealing the marks they leave behind.Not working well with the rest of the cast/crew for 4 days until Pupillo had a massive row with her in front of everyone, Barbara Steele's more detached manner as Cleo Hauff actually works,thanks to it creating the impression of Hauff attempting to keep a dark family event secret from the creatures from the grave.
View on the film:
Treating producer Ralph Zucker to the "credit" as he disowned the film, director Massimo Pupillo makes his dissatisfaction visible in the first half by overlaying a dominant narration,that drains the atmosphere from the crumbling Gothic Horror set. Opening the family graves in the second half, Pupillo pulls in the Gothic chills with a clever use of roaming shadows to represent the unseen monster, and sticky, plague-ridden practical effects revealing the marks they leave behind.Not working well with the rest of the cast/crew for 4 days until Pupillo had a massive row with her in front of everyone, Barbara Steele's more detached manner as Cleo Hauff actually works,thanks to it creating the impression of Hauff attempting to keep a dark family event secret from the creatures from the grave.