House with the Windows That Laugh 1976  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Pupi Avati
Cast: Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani, Vanna Busoni, Andrea Matteuzzi, Bob Tonelli, Pietro Brambilla, Ferdinando Orlandi, Ines Ciaschetti
A small, Italian village was the home of a painter of macabre works of art. One of his paintings–a man being murdered–is on a church wall and needs restoring. A young artist, Stefano (Lino Capolicchio), is hired to restore it. Stefano becomes interested in the artist's life, and as he investigates more and more secrets are revealed, building to a startling conclusion. A well-paced thriller that will keep the viewer's interest throughout.
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Macabre 1980  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Frozen Terror
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny, Roberto Posse, Ferdinando Orlandi, Fernando Pannullo, Elisa Kadigia Bove
Famed horror director Mario Bava's son follows in his father's footsteps with this gross little tale. Jane (Bernice Stegers) is unhappy at home and, thus, shares an apartment with a lover. But Jane's daughter Lucy (Veronica Zinny) suspects her mother's infidelity and, to punish her mother, drowns her little brother. Lucy calls her mother to tell what she did, and the frantic Jane is driven home by her boyfriend. An accident decapitates the boyfriend, and the distraught Jane spends a year in an asylum. When she is released she goes back to the apartment, and, among other things, she entertains the blind owner of the building, Robert (Stanko Molnar). But, she seems to have a more torrid affair also going on, and it may have something to do with the locked freezer. Robert decides to investigate.
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| 1. House with the Windows That Laugh (1976)
2. Macabre (1980)
aka: Frozen Terror
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