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THE UNNATURALS

Schreie in der Nacht

1969 • DE HMDB
May 30, 1969

During a thunderstorm, a group of members of London's high society seek refuge in a remote mansion in the countryside. They are received by Uriat and his mother, who appears to be able to communicate with the dead. The guests engage in a séance, but it will reveal each and everyone's darkest secrets.

Directors

Antonio Margheriti

Cast

Joachim Fuchsberger, Marianne Koch, Helga Anders, Claudio Camaso, Dominique Boschero, Luciano Pigozzi, Marianne Leibl, Giuliano Raffaelli, Marco Morelli, Gudrun Schmidt
Horror Thriller Crime

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Marco Castellini

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Five people, linked by family ties or business, find themselves having to take a short car journey together. Caught in a sudden storm, they are forced to take refuge in an ancient hunting lodge inhabited by an old medium and her son. They decide to participate in a seance in which the spirits of the people they have unjustly harmed will return to seek revenge. Perhaps the best horror directed by Margheriti, a kind of summary of the characteristics and most interesting aspects of the Italian Gothic tradition: obsessions related to sexuality and sin, avarice and betrayal, unsettling eroticism and the sapphic component, claustrophobic and looming places, and finally a destiny that, using terrible ghosts, delivers justice sparing no one, guilty or innocent. Excellent the sequence that closes the film, the mud flood that engulfs the cursed house sweeping away and, at the same time, "hiding" all the horror that took place in that place. Highly recommended!