Viy is a 1967 Soviet gothic horror film based on a Gogol story. A girl's corpse doesn't want to stay dead. Wildly imaginative, crazy, perfectly captures the feel of folk legends and fairy tales. Creepy, spooky, with inspired fantastic imagery.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/viy-1967.html

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You might think The Third Eye (1966) will be gothic horror but it's more of a Hitchcockian thriller in the mould of Psycho. There are puzzling murders and the characters (all of them unstable) respond in unsettling ways. Creepy and fascinating.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-third-eye-1966.html

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Death In A Red Jaguar (1968), a German Jerry Cotton crime thriller. Jerry has to deal with a Murder Inc type gang. Fast-moving, suspenseful, action-packed, shot with flair. The opening sequence is peak 60s German pop cinema. Superb pulp movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/09/death-in-red-jaguar-1968.html

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Young Hannah, Queen of the Vampires (1973), a Spanish horror film partly reshot for the US. Horror in a contemporary setting, with a vampire cult and a 700-year-old vampire queen on an island. Not bad but a bit too tame.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/young-hannah-queen-of-vampires-1973.html

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Antonio Margheriti’s Web of the Spider is a colour remake of his excellent 1964 Castle of Blood. With Klaus Kinski as Edgar Allan Poe! A good slightly offbeat gothic horror film featuring ghosts (sort of) and a nice aesthetic. Cool ending.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/web-of-spider-1971.html

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Too Beautiful To Die (1988), an incredibly underrated giallo set in the glittering but empty world of high fashion and supermodels in Milan. I love the over-the-top 80s aesthetic. Very stylish, very decadent, very fetishistic. Great stuff.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/too-beautiful-to-die-1988.html

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This will upset Fulci fans but I really disliked his 1972 giallo Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972). And in general I'm a major Fulci fan. The right ingredients and a fine cast. Florinda Bolkan is excellent. It just didn't come together for me.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/dont-torture-duckling-1972-rewatch.html

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In The Black Cat (1981) Lucio Fulci takes Poe's story as a starting point and then builds a new story. Two young lovers have vanished. A crazy professor (played by Patrick Magee!) talks to the dead. He has a psychic link to his cat. Great movie.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-black-cat-1981.html

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Lady Morgan’s Vengeance is a 1965 Italian gothic horror movie. In a spooky castle a woman is going slowly mad. It doesn't slot neatly into any one genre, there are some interesting narrative techniques. While it's no masterpiece it's enjoyable.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/lady-morgans-vengeance-1965.html

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The fine 1972 giallo So Sweet, So Dead begins with a very dead naked girl. Cop Farley Granger's problem is the victim was a general's wife so he has to tread carefully. More murders follow among the decadent rich. The ending packs a real punch.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/08/so-sweet-so-dead-1972.html

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Monster of the Opera (1964) seems like a typical "young lady in semi-transparent nightie running in terror" gothic horror film but turns out to be much odder. It's a vampire in a haunted theatre film. Or maybe it isn't. Bizarre but fascinating.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/monster-of-opera-1964.html

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The Seventh Grave (1965) is an Italian gothic horror film with the right ingredients - empty coffins, disappearing corpses, a hidden treasure, a séance - but it's definitely a lesser example of the breed. It's OK but lacks any real spark.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-seventh-grave-1965.html

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Tinto Brass's later films such as The Voyeur (1994) are very sexy but they're also often very arty, goodnatured and amusing. The Voyeur is a provocative intelligent erotic art film about voyeurism but also about secrets, lies and fantasies.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-voyeur-1994.html

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Riccardo Freda's The Horrible Dr Hichcock (1962) is overcooked overdone overblown outrageous. A mad scientist with a thing for dead girls. Madness and very unhealthy sexual obsessions. Barbara Steele is excellent. Shades of Hitchcock's Rebecca.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-horrible-dr-hichcock-1962.html

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Savage Three (Fango bollente, 1975), a nasty little movie combining poliziottesco and psycho killer movie elements. Superbly chilling performance by Joe Dallesandro combining evil and innocence. Great movie.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/06/savage-three-1975.html

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Antonio Margheriti's The Golden Arrow is a 1962 Italian Arabian Nights adventure/romance. It's a rather bland kids' movie rather than a full-fledged peplum, and with awful comic relief. It does look lovely though and it's reasonably enjoyable.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-golden-arrow-1962.html

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Damiano Damiani's La strega in amore (The Witch, 1966), unconventional Italian gothic horror in a modern setting. A writer gets involved with a woman who may be a witch. Very decadent. It's also a noirish psychosexual melodrama. Great stuff.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-witch-la-strega-in-amore-1966.html

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Don't make the mistake of thinking of Claude Chabrol’s oddball The Champagne Murders (1967) as a Hitchcockian thriller. There’s no suspense. It's more a black comedy. You'll enjoy it more if you accept that he's teasing and toying with you.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-champagne-murders-1967.html

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Jean-Pierre Melville’s Un Flic (1972), perhaps neonoir but more existentialist crime film. Alain Delon is a cop, there are two heists, but it's an art film, a coldly intellectual exercise in absurdism, existentialism, alienation and isolation.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/05/un-flic-1972.html

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Syndicate Sadists (1975) is a 1975 Umberto Lenzi poliziottesco that's really a lone wolf hero vigilante movie. Tomas Milian stars and he has a personal score to settle. There's a kidnapping. Not Lenzi's best but Milian's charisma caries it.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/05/syndicate-sadists-1975.html

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