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THE MONSTER OF THE OPERA

Il mostro dell'opera

1964 โ€ข IT HMDB
June 30, 1964

A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.

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Screenplay: Renato Polselli (Story)Ernesto Gastaldi (Story)Giuseppe Pellegrini (Screenplay)
Music: Aldo Piga (Original Music Composer)
Cinematography: Ugo Brunelli (Director of Photography)

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Marco Castellini

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A company of actors rents a theater without knowing that a terrible vampire weighs on it. After several deaths, the creature of the night will be eliminated... A little-known Italian horror film from the mid-1960s that had no few problems both in terms of production (the film began in 1961 but was only completed in 1964!) and distribution: some lesbian scenes drew the attention of censorship. All in all, a decent horror film that falls within the sexy-vampire genre of the period. The only peculiarity lies in a "new" characteristic that the vampire protagonist of the film possesses: the "bloodsucker" indeed has the peculiarity of being able to bite a prey only if it is still!

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