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Title

The Faceless Monster

Year

1965

Director(s)

Mario Caiano

Actor(s)

Barbara Steele, Paul Mller, Helga Lin, Laurence Clift, Giuseppe Addobbati

Rating

NR

Format

DVD

Movie Edition

Run Time

100 mins

Language

English

DVD Release Date

Feb 25, 2003

UPC

802993104990

Region Code

Genre

Suspense & Thriller

Original MSRP

$14.95

Description

Uncut Letterboxed Euro Edition

Regarded as one of the last important films in the Golden Age of Italian Gothic Horror, The Faceless Monster (better known as Nightmare Castle) was cut by more than 20 minutes in its theatrical and TV showings. This letterboxed presentation restores, for the first time in the United States, the full 100-minute cut of the film. The films references to previous Italian gothic and a cast of some of the most recognized faces in European horror (Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Line) make it rumination on a genre that was, at least in chiaroscuro form, ebbing away by its production date of 1965. A novice to the Italian gothic film, director Mario Caiano (under the pseudonym of Allan Grunewald) magnified its essence, not so much in the outer atmospheric trappings, but in the inner, more frightful dimensions of minds and passions out of control. Barbara Steele's presence dominates the film in a dual role that demanded wickedness and innocence, the devil and the angel, black hair and blonde. Born in Birkenhead, England, Barabara Steele was regarded in the 1960s as the Queen of Horror for her appearances in several landmark horror films, chiefly of Italian origin: Mario Bava's Black Sunday, Riccardo Freda's The Horrible Dr. Hichcock and Antonio Margheriti's Castle of Blood. Unlike these films, however, The Faceless Monster provided Steele with a rare opportunity to dub her own voice for the English track. With legendary composer Ennio Morricone supplementing the growing cacophony of suspense and sensation, The Faceless Monster climaxes in a grotesque primal therapy release of scream and insane laughter, an appropriate parting to the glory age of Italy's gothic cinema.
-Mirek Lipinski

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