I TRE VOLTI DELLA PAURA
I tre volti della paura
Il telefono In questo episodio, tratto da un racconto di F.G. Snyder (anche se nei titoli di testa è accreditato a Maupassant), una donna, durante tutta una sera, viene tormentata dalle telefonate di un uomo che minaccia di ucciderla. Terrorizzata chiede aiuto ad una sua cara amica, ma la donna non sa che il maniaco che la sta minacciando è proprio l'amica. I Wurdalak Tratto da un racconto di Aleksej Konstantinovič Tolstoj (Sem'ja vurdalaka, 1839), l'episodio narra della terribile sorte che incombe su una famiglia vittima di una forma di vampirismo. La goccia d'acqua In questo episodio tratto da un racconto di Anton Čechov, un'infermiera andrà incontro ad una maledizione, per aver rubato l'anello di una medium appena morta.
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Cast
Boris Karloff
Gorca (segment "The Wurdalak")
Mark Damon
Vladimire d'Urfe (segment "The Wurdalak")
Michèle Mercier
Rosy (segment "The Telephone")
Susy Andersen
Sdenka (segment "The Wurdalak")
Lidia Alfonsi
Mary (segment "The Telephone")
Jacqueline Pierreux
Helen Chester (segment "A Drop Of Water")
Glauco Onorato
Giorgio (segment "The Wurdalak")
Massimo Righi
Pietro (segment "The Wurdalak")
Ρίκα Διαλυνά
Maria (segment "The Wurdalak")
Milo Quesada
Frank Rainer (segment "The Telephone")
Milly
The Maid (segment "A Drop Of Water")
Gustavo De Nardo
Police Inspector (segment "A Drop Of Water")
Harriet Medin
Neighbor (segment "A Drop Of Water")
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Boris Karloff introduces this triptych of short stories. I found the first, the shortest, to be the least interesting centring around a greedy nurse who robs a corpse of a valuable ring only to find that it's erstwhile owner isn't quite finished with it, or her, quite yet! The second sees a beautiful woman return to her apartment one evening only to find herself subjected to repeated telephone calls warning her that she shall not see the morning! Michèle Mercier is quite effective as the terrified "Rosy" in this story. Finally, Karloff himself takes to the stage in a rather lengthier, enjoyable, vampire story that sees a travelling count discover the body of a dreaded bandit and take it to a nearby farm. It's only once there, and with the return of the father "Gorca", that he begins to realise that this danger has already been "invited in"! The productions have a very Hammer look to them, the make up and visual effects (especially in the first story) don't hold up so well, but in the main, the three stories are quite solid with portentous messages of revenge for those who would steal or cheat or kill! You are unlikely to recall it a few days after watching, but Bava knew how to do budget/studio horror quite well and the last two stories make a decent fist of developing some sense of menace and threat. Good fun.
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