Ombretta Ostenda. Bava Sanni. Marisa Quattrini. Giorgio Braccesi. Titti Valeri. Stefania Sabatini. Franca Licastro. Renato Polselli. Ernesto Gastaldi screenplay story Giuseppe Pellegrini screenplay story Renato Polselli screenplay story. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Writer Ernesto Gastaldi once noted that the casting of Tina Gloriani was due to her being the director's lover at the time.
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Shot in and around the grounds of an ancient Italian castle, this creepy thriller follows a company of beautiful ballerinas on tour, when they become stranded within the castle's sinister, stony old walls. They have no idea that a horror legend centuries old is about to come alive in the form of vampires, all thirsting for blood. Not Rated. This item is a Blu-ray. When Countess Alda temporarily excuses herself, Luisa decides to look around the castle and it's at this time that she is bitten by the same vampire who attacked the young woman in the woods.
From that point on Luisa is irresistibly drawn to the vampire by the name of "Herman" Walter Brandi and this endangers everyone who is close to Luisa. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that from what I understand this movie had some difficulty with the Italian censors due-strangely enough--to the graphic images exhibited during the death of the vampires and the special effects related to the mask worn by Herman.
While it all seems rather tame in this day and age I suppose it goes with the territory back then. Be that as it may, although this film is definitely dated, it wasn't too bad as far as vampire films are concerned and because of that I have rated it accordingly. Great title and to my surprise there really is a ballerina, well several of them, more 'dancers' to be honest. These leggy ladies prance about a lot but the music for the film is so dreadfully inappropriate most of the time, it is to little effect.
Shame really that the whole film is so mixed in quality. I know the business of vampire victims coming back as vampires or remaining as 'blood banks' has always seemed a bit arbitrary but here even the characters don't seem to get it. This has to be the first such film when head vampire puts a stake through the heart of a potential fellow to prevent her from causing trouble on his patch. Worth a look, especially bearing in mind the director's later greats but a certain amount of patience required.
Here's an early entry in the Italian horror revival of the 60s, following on the heels of Freda's "I Vampiri". Most horror buffs have dismissed it as a clumsy imitation of its cinematic cousins. As proved by his later, supremely bizarre contributions to the horror genre, Polselli was a hack with no interest in continuity or story structure, but he certainly could sustain a ferociously obsessional, surrealistic atmosphere, and this title can be quite hypnotic despite its poor make-up and effects and relentless lack of narrative drive.
On the other hand, if you're a fan of kitschy earlys Euro-chic, then by all means check this one out if you can find it -- it only seems available on hazy grey-market copies that may have been clipped of brief sights of nudity and lasciviousness. The proceedings come to a halt every so often to allow the supposedly classical ballet troupe of leggy, leotard-clad bambinas an opportunity to break into sultry, acrobatic jazz ballet shades of Chicago and Cabaret , to some mind-bending cocktail lounge music.
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