MC
Marco Castellini
•In a small village, a series of deaths seem to occur without any logical reason. To investigate these strange events, a police commissioner and a forensic doctor are sent to the location. The latter, upon arriving in the village, decides to perform an autopsy on a recently deceased woman and discovers a terrible secret: everything seems linked to an elderly noblewoman, some years earlier, devastated by the death of her beloved daughter... A classic by Mario Bava (along with "The Mask of the Demon" and "Blood and Black Lace" it is one of the best by the Italian master of horror) in which all the key elements that characterize the Italian Gothic genre are concentrated: revenge from the Beyond, psychological terror, mystery combined with the fascination for everything that is supernatural, the predominant importance of female characters. Unforgettable are the disturbing appearances of the "avenging" ghost of the child, preceded by the bouncing of her ball that announces her presence but, at the same time, the imminent end for someone. Two curiosities: the protagonist of the film is the excellent Giacomo Rossi Stuart while the disturbing child was none other than a boy, and precisely the son of Bava's doorman, "made up" for the occasion with a blonde wig.