Il fantasma di Sodoma (1988)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

Lucio Fulci

Writers:

Carlo Alberto Alfieri (screenplay)
Lucio Fulci (screenplay)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

Six teenagers are terrorized in an isolated villa by ghosts of Nazis killed during World War II by an air raid while participating in an orgy.

Plot Keywords:

Orgy | Nazi | Ghost | Teen | Decomposing Body

Cast

Claudio Aliotti	...	Mark
Maria Concetta Salieri	...	Celine
Robert Egon	...	Willy the Nazi
Jessica Moore	...	Maria (as Luciana Ottaviani)
Teresa Razzaudi	...	Anne
Sebastian Harrison	...	John
Alan Johnson	...	Paul

Also Known As:

Sodoma's Ghost
The Ghosts of Sodom

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Not Rated | Netherlands:16 | West Germany:18

Company:

Alpha Cinematografica

Trivia:

The German dialog heard in the background during the scene where Mark wanders through the halls is an excerpt from Richard Wagner's opera "Die Walküre". The two characters speaking are Siegmund and Brünnhilde in the 4th scene of the 2nd act.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Un gatto nel cervello (1990)

Comic

I thought Fulci was a master of Italian horror, or so I heard, therefore I was surprised when I discovered that this was one of his movies. The story lacks in originality. It's full of all the stereotypes of the genre: a haunted house, a group of teenagers, the hysteric girl, the tough guy who always keeps cool and the stupid one who inevitably troubles things up. All these ingredients are mixed without logic, especially at the end. The results are comic, not terrifying. I saw it with a group of friends and we couldn't stop laughing!