During the Middle Ages, the Russian Inquisition condemns a couple of lovers who practice witchcraft to death and executes them by putting a mask with spikes inside. Centuries later, their coffins are found and opened by two travelers. By removing the masks from the corpses, the witches come back to life and spread panic among the local inhabitants.
| Screenwriter | Mario Bava, Ennio De Concini, Mario Serandrei. |
With introduction and conversation with the public by Cristian Planas. Essential work, very unknown to the general public, by one of the great masters of horror. We will screen the full version, which includes many of the scenes cut at the time of its release. A film that time feels wonderful to him and that will surprise many because of the topicality and boldness of the subject it deals with. A housewife is introduced to the world of the satanic arts by signing up for a neighborhood women's association dedicated to black magic. After having an affair with her teenage daughter's lover, a demonic creature begins to sexually harass her.
Film by Tigon, Hammer's great rival, with a cast of mythical horror faces, where a dark mansion and mysterious creatures serve the director to delve fully into the genre. When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house where he was last heard from. Although his host is welcoming, and his niece more than welcoming, Manning detects a sense of menace in the air: the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, covers it all.
An adaptation of the story The Viyi, by Nikolai Gogol, for many years it was the only horror film of Soviet production. Recently recovered in a magnificent high-definition restoration, it is a cult classic of the genre. During a vacation period, a group of young priests are deceived by a witch. One of these young priests is called days later to a small village to fulfill a mission, to save the soul of a young woman. To fulfill his mandate, he must pray in a small church next to the young woman's corpse for 3 nights. Everything will change when he discovers that the young woman is, in reality, the witch he found with her companions.
The film that revolutionized horror cinema forever. Until the arrival of "Paranormal Activity" it was the most profitable film in the history of cinema, with a budget of $60,000 and a global gross of more than $248 million. On October 21, 1994, Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams entered a Maryland forest to film a documentary about a local legend, "The Blair Witch". They were not heard from again. A year later, the camera they were filming with was found: it showed the terrifying events that led to her disappearance.
