The Blancheville Monster is a 1963 Italian/Spanish horror movie directed by Alberto De Martino [as Martin Herbert] (System for a Homicide; Blood Hyperlink; Holocaust 2000; The Antichrist) from a screenplay written by Bruno Corbucci, Sergio Corbucci and Giovanni Grimaldi, allegedly primarily based loosely upon an (uncredited) story by Edgar Allan Poe. Produced by Alberto Aguilera. Additionally launched as Horror
The film stars Helga Liné (Horror Categorical, The Dracula Saga, The Loreley’s Grasp), Gérard Tichy (Items), Leo Anchóriz and Ombretta Colli.
The unique model is ready in Scotland; nonetheless, the US model selected to transpose the occasions to Brittany, France.
Plot:
1884: Emily Blackford returns to her ancestral dwelling after ending college to search out that her brother has sacked the complete employees and all the brand new servants act suspiciously. Her father – whom she had believed to be killed in a fireplace – is found to be alive however ‘horribly disfigured’ and has been pushed insane. The household preserve him locked up within the tower.
It transpires that there’s a curse on the Blackford line, and their father believes that the curse can solely be damaged if Emily is killed earlier than her twenty first birthday…
“Horror is quite lugubriously paced and will have profited from a minimum of ten minutes of 90 minutes being shaved off. Gratifyingly, nonetheless, De Martino lays the ambiance on thick…” Jonathan Rigby, Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema
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“The Blancheville Monster doesn’t have a lot to supply aside from De Martino’s competent path, atmospheric set-pieces (together with the ruined monastery that might be featured within the Nineteen Seventies Spanish horror movies) and Alejandro Ulloa’s atmospheric lighting […] the horrific moments, so to talk, are additionally fairly awkward with a grotesque trying monster and naive shock cuts underlined by Carlo Franci’s melodramatic rating…” Roberto Curti, Italian Gothic Horror Movies, 1957 – 1969 e-book
DVD launch:
On November 19, 2013, the movie was launched within the US by Retromedia as a fiftieth Anniversary DVD in 1:66:1 widescreen and in excessive definition.
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Trailer:
Solid and characters (US model):
Gérard Tichy … Rodéric De Blancheville
Leo Anchóriz … Physician LaRouche
Ombretta Colli … Emilie De Blancheville (as Joan Hills)
Helga Liné … Miss Eleonore, the Housekeeper
Irán Eory … Alice Taylor
Vanni Materassi … John Taylor (as Richard Davis)
Paco Morán … Alistair, the Butler (as Frank Moran)
Emilia Wolkowicz … Cook dinner (as Emily Wolkowicz)
Harry Winter … Gamekeeper
Filming places:
San Martín de Valdeiglesias, Madrid, Spain
Technical specs:
1 hour half-hour
Black and white
Side ratio: 1.66: 1
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