MC
Marco Castellini
•In an old house, one night a young woman savagely kills her family. From that night, the house remains vacant for a long time, until a family decides to move in, heedless of the rumors that the villa is haunted by the Devil. In a short time, the old tragedy will repeat itself... First chapter of what has become a classic horror saga. It is the "usual" story of the haunted house, but this time the director preferred to emphasize the psychological aspects of the story, leaving out blood and death, thus making the critics happy but not the public; overall, however, a good film, even if, in several points, excessively slow and prolix in the unfolding of the facts. Curiosity: at one point, the film "anticipates" one of the most famous sequences of Kubrick's horror masterpiece "The Shining," precisely in the scene where George (James Brolin), now completely possessed, takes an axe and sets out to look for his wife who tries in vain to hide by running between the rooms of the house.
