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Nude For Satan (1974)
By lngway2go | January 31, 2008
(aka Nuda per Satana)
Director: Luigi Batzella (as Paolo Solvay)
Starring: Rita Calderoni, James Harris (Guiseppe Pino Mattei), Renato Lupi, Iolanda Mascitti, Luigi Antonia Guerra, Barbara Lay, Augusto Boscardini, Alfredo Pasti, Stelio Candelli
Dr. William Benson is urgently traveling to a farm when he runs off the side of the road attempting to avoid hitting a figure in the road. He is knocked out in the accident, and as he is coming to he hears another car swerving and crashing. He rushes over and removes a young woman from the car, but when he tries to take the woman to the safety his car it fails to start and he is forced to go looking for help.
Williams happens upon a castle and ventures there in the hopes of finding help. Once inside his hopes of finding help are quickly shattered as things just get weird, for him and for us!
The film now follows the two car crash victims separately as they meet alternative versions of each other. They are both trapped inside the castle that is like something out of a Dracula film. But there is a dream like logic within the castle walls; day turns to night in a matter of seconds and clothes disappear and reappear in the blink of an eye.
A Devil like character begins to try and tempt the two individuals into accepting their alternative selves and becoming part of the place they now find themselves. The two individuals struggle separately and ultimately together to try avoid becoming part of the Hell in which they find themselves.
As the title of the films suggests there is plenty of female nudity on display in this gothic piece of madness. In one bizarre scene a poor representation of a spider takes serious interest in the half naked female lead that is tangled on its web.
This strange and slow moving film did, not surprisingly, very poorly when it first opened in Italy and remained shelved there after. But now that it is seeing the light of day once more, it’s actually an intriguing piece of Euro trash cinema. A film which is more a dream than it is a reality.
Topics: Gothic Horror, Italian Horror |