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<B>Screenplay.......Mario Bava & Joseph McLee & Filippo Ottoni</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Stelvio Cipriani</B></div> <div> <B>Producer..........Jieseepe Zaccariello</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....</B></div> <div> <B>Based on a story by Dardanno Sachetti & Franco Barberi</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>(Not Available)  Claudine Auger </B></div> <div> <B>                 Luigi Pistili</B></div> <div> <B>                 Claudio Volonte</B></div> <div> <B>                 Anna M. Rosati</B></div> <div> <B>                 Chris Avram</B></div> <div> <B>                 Leopoldo Triest</B></div> <div> <B>                 Laura Bett</B></div> <div> <B>                 Brigitte Skay</B></div> <div> <B>                 Isa Miranda</B></div> <div> <B>                 Paola Ruben</B></div> <div> <B>                 Guido Boccacci</B></div> <div> <B>                 Roberto Bonan</B></div> <div> <B>                 Giovanni Nuvolet</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The production quality is not bad although the picture tends toward excessive darkness. Still, not too inexpensive. In Italian style, there is a tendency toward extended dialogue free scenes of wistful looking into a mirror and violin and piano music. The dubbing in these affairs can't help but diminish pretensions. The beginning is hopeful, punctuated by some pretty random seeming slaughter. Unfortunately, gears get shifted and we get suspects stumbling around in the dark looking for each other with fairly clear, non-horrifying, motives. No victim types survive long enough for us to care about them. Quite a collection of despicable non-victim types with murder in their hearts are trotted out. The film fails to produce anyone who we have any interest in surviving. Thus, the hatchetings are generally met with equanimity. A problem is that many of these guys look so similar that even after we see a murderer, it takes a while to get straight who it is. The latter half of the film drags pretty seriously. Watch for the ridiculously extended flashback involving Ventura and his secretary Laura setting up a plot. Apparently director Bava just decided to slap in an earlier scene that he'd cut out. All the slashing makes it a horror movie, but it sure fails to horrify. What would an Italian horror movie be without a surprise ending involving children that is utterly unprepared by what went before?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: In a castle overlooking a bay, the old countess Frederika in her wheelchair moves moodily toward the windows overlooking the bay. The melancholic moment is broken nicely when she is launched out of her wheelchair and into a noose where she struggles and gags for a few moments. Black gloves are removed, but the fun's not over as the dapperly dressed hangman, count Frederico Donati, is soon knifed repeatedly. Frank Ventura heads out to the bay to check things out. He assures "your honor" that the blasting can begin soon. They want to make a resort of the place. It appears we have an environmental offender. A man and woman are keeping an eye on what's going on down at the bay. A crazed looking fly catcher and a squid fisherman, Simon, have a clownish philosophical conversation about killing for killing's sake and the death of the countess. Frolicking, objectionable, "young people" head off in their beach rover toward the bay. Someone observes their arrival. Up in the castle a dark woman reads tarot and mutters sonorously to herself. She bickers foolishly with her husband. Her husband, Paulo, hates Ventura. Ventura and the count both wanted to transform the bay into a "sea of cement". He's an environmentalist. Someone watches the frolicking idiots. The German, Hilda, goes out for a swim in the bay (while wimpy Robert complains that it's too cold). Her swim is disturbed, however, by the discovery of the count floating under the dock. She returns to find that the others have left. When she calls out that she's found a dead man in the bay, this arouses the watcher. Said watcher then disturbs a flower pot outside the house and when Robert comes out to check on the noise, things get messy. Denise and and the other frolicker have been too busy in the bedroom to notice any of these goings on, and make themselves a pretty easy target. Switch the scene to the rather sleazy looking Albert and the count's daughter Rennie who leave some kids in a trailer at the bay. Tarot lady tells Rennie that it may be that Frederika may have left the bay to Simon, her illegitimate son. They decide to go off and see Simon. What they find is count Filippe's bloated body, which has done a marvelous job of attracting squid for Simon. Simon claims he found him in the sea. Fly catcher has cut his hand somewhere. Hmm. Rennie muses that there's only one obstacle between them and the inheritance. Hmm. The potential killers are piling up. Is it the fly catcher? Ventura? Simon? 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