MC
Marco Castellini
•We are in the nineteenth century, two eccentric poets, one of whom is Lord Byron, decide to have a séance with their respective lovers; the result is strange apparitions of snakes, rats, leeches, ghosts, and corpses. After the night everything seems to return to normal, but a tragic fate looms over them... The eccentric Ken Russell directs, as usual, a baroque and "excessive" film, which however is not as successful as his previous "I Diavoli". The cast is decent (in which we find Gabriel Byrne and Julian Sands), the subject is original, but the screenplay and, above all, the dialogues are bad. It could be defined as the "classic horror film" with all the components of the case: séance, apparitions, corpses but, unfortunately, with too few "scares". Negligible.