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DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER

La morte ha sorriso all'assassino

1973 IT HMDB
July 11, 1973

Greta is a beautiful young woman abused by her brother Franz and left to die in childbirth by her illicit lover, the aristocrat Dr. von Ravensbrück. Bereft with grief, Franz reanimates his dead sister using a formula engraved on an ancient Incan medallion. Greta then returns as an undead avenging angel, reaping revenge on the Ravensbrück family and her manically possessive brother.

Directors

Joe D'Amato

Cast

Ewa Aulin, Klaus Kinski, Luciano Rossi, Attilio Dottesio, Carla Mancini, Angela Bo, Sergio Doria, Marco Mariani, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Fernando Cerulli
Horror

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

A mad doctor, who tries to bring the dead back to life, manages to resurrect a woman who died in childbirth, who then avenges her own death by killing the entire family of her lover... First film by the late Joe D'Amato (who, for the first and only time in his long career, signs the film with his given name Aristide Massaccesi) who debuts with a good giallo - horror that, despite some apparent inconsistencies and numerous dark passages, unfolds pleasantly through a chain of bloody crimes and various atrocities until the "strange" and disturbing ending. The protagonists (including the great Klaus Kinski) certainly give a hand to the debuting Massaccesi, who already directs this film with discreet technique and security. A film definitely worth discovering.