Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel trecento (1973)

User Rating:

4.4/10   

Director:

Renato Polselli

Writer:

Renato Polselli (writer)

Release Date:

17 January 1973 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Witch | Reincarnation | Sacrifice | Inquisition

Cast

Mickey Hargitay	...	Jack Nelson
Rita Calderoni	...	Isabella / Laureen
Raul Lovecchio	...	Occultist (as Raoul)
Christa Barrymore	...	Christa
Consolata Moschera		(as Moschera Consolata)
William Darni	...	Richard Brenton
Max Dorian
Marcello Bonini Olas	...	Gerg (as Marcello Bonini)
Cristina Perrier
Stefania Fassio	...	Steffy
Gabriele Bentivoglio	...	Priest
Vittorio Fanfoni		(as Fanfoni Vittorio)
Anna Ardizzone
Marisa Indice
Dunca Balsor
Tano Cimarosa	...	(scenes deleted)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Carmen Young	...	Mabel (uncredited)

Directed by
Renato Polselli		(as Ralph Brown)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Renato Polselli		writer

Original Music by
Romolo Forlai
Gianfranco Reverberi

Cinematography by
Ugo Brunelli

Film Editing by
Renato Polselli

Art Direction by
Giuseppe Ranieri

Makeup Department
Marcello Di Paolo	....	makeup artist
Agnese Panarotto	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Mario Maestrelli	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Raimondo Esposito	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Maurizio Ferrari	....	sound

Other crew
Giuseppe Bruno Bossio	....	production secretary (as Bossio Giuseppe Bruno)
Giuseppe Gargiulo	....	administrator

Production Companies

• G.R.P. Cinematografica

Distributors

• Image Entertainment (1998) (USA) (DVD) (subtitled)
• La Primula Cinematografica
• Salvation Films (2006) (UK) (DVD) (as Redemption)

Also Known As:

Black Magic Rites & the Secret Orgies of the 14th Century (UK) (DVD title)
Black Magic Rites: Reincarnations
La reincarnazione
Rites, Black Magic and Secret Orgies in the Fourteenth Century (USA) (literal English title)
The Ghastly Orgies of Count Dracula
The Horrible Orgies of Count Dracula
The Reincarnation of Isabel

Runtime:

USA:98 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Balsorano Castle, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy

Company:

G.R.P. Cinematografica

One-of-a-kind erotic horror flick

A group of people are having a party in a castle one of them (Mickey Hargitay) has just bought. The castle is haunted by the malignant presence of a witch who was burned 500 years earlier and who, not surprisingly, looks just like one of the guests (Rita Calderoni). Yet another rip-off of Mario Bava's "Black Sunday"?--of course, but this movie is much, much more than that. All the male guests are either reincarnations of the earlier historical figures or vampires who have been living for centuries waiting for the opportunity to reincarnate the witch, Isabel. The women meanwhile are all virgins because, not only are virgins necessary for the ceremony, but as one character eloquently puts it, "Vampires need blood uncontaminated by human semen." (This leads one dumb girl in a particularly hilarious scene to give up her virginity to her nymphomaniac friend and a fat, ugly guy with a severe facial twitch).

Obviously, the main appeal of this movie is sex and nudity, but anyone watching it SOLELY for that purpose might be a little frustrated as this a Renato Polselli film, a man whose directorial style can best be described as completely deranged. While there are acres of flesh on display here, Polselli often seems more interested in the bizarro camera angles, the staccato editing sequences, and the pulse-pounding score than he is in lingering on the action like some of his hack contemporaries (or more modern-day "erotic" filmmakers) would have done. All the actors and actresses from Polselli's more famous film "Delerio Caldo" show up again here, and while the latter are even more naked than they were in "Delerio Caldo", some of them turn out to be pretty untalented as thespians(and Polselli doesn't have the good sense to kill them off quickly like he did in the other film). Meanwhile, the stronger actors like Hargitay, Calderoni, and Krysta Barrymore are pretty much wasted in the incomprehensible chaos the film quickly descends into.

Regardless of whether you like this film or not, however, I GUARANTEE you'll never see anything else like it.