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Barbara Steele
Cynthia Hichcock
Robert Flemyng
Prof. Bernard Hichcock
Silvano Tranquilli
Dr. Kurt Lowe
Maria Teresa Vianello
Margherita Hichcock
Harriet Medin
Martha, the maid
Spencer Williams
Al Christianson
Evaristo Signorini
Inspector Scott
Giovanni Querrel
Neil Robinson
Howard Nelson Rubien
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Review 1DiscussionA review by CinemaSerf
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Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Mar 17 2024
There are definitely shades of Daphne du Maurier in this slightly hysterical telling of a supernatural tale. Robert Flemyng is an eminent surgeon who has a penchant for necrophilia - he drugs them first then has his fun; they awaken none the wiser some hours later. However, when he overdoses his first wife and she dies he is bereft and departs for twelve years. When he returns to his home with a new wife (not entirely dissimilar to her predecessor) he picks up where he left off - not just with his wife, but with the cadavers in his hospital mortuary too. When wife No. 2 (Barbara Steele) starts ...
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English
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Keywords
- necrophilia
- sadomasochism
- mad doctor
- hospital
- gothic horror
- italian gothic
- dead wife