A Blade in the Dark 1983  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: House of the Dark Stairway
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Andrea Occhipinti, Anny Papa, Fabiola Toledo, Michele Soavi, Valeria Cavalli, Stanko Molnar, Lara Naszinsky
A young composer, Bruno (Andrea Occhipinti), is hired to score a horror movie. When strange things start happening that relate to both the former tenant of the villa he has rented and to the film, he realizes that something sinister is going on.
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Body Puzzle 1991  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Misteria
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Joanna Pacula, Tomas Arana, Francois Montagut, Gianni Garko, Erika Blanc, Matteo Gazzolo, Susanna Javicoli, Bruno Corazzari, Ursula von Baechler, Sebastiano Lo Monaco, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Tracy's (Joanna Pacula) husband, Abe (Francois Montagut), died some time ago in an automobile accident. Now Tracy is being watched by a mysterious man, and she also finds a body part in her refrigerator. With the help of investigator Michael (Tomas Arana), they uncover the fact that gruesome murders are occurring around the city and that selected body parts are taken from the bodies–parts that were donated from Abe's body. A touch of his father's (Mario) style is displayed by Lamberto Bava in this horror/mystery.
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Delirium 1987  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Photo of Gioia
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Serena Grandi, Daria Nicolodi, Katrine Michelsen, Capucine, Sabrina Salerno, Vanni Corbellini, David Brandon, George Eastman, Karl Zinny, Lino Salemme
Former prostitute Gioia (Serena Grandi) now models for a men's magazine. When models are murdered in bizarre ways and she receives photos of them in front of one of her posters, there is cause for great concern on her part.
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Demons 1985 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento, Paola Cozzo, Fabiola Toledo, Nicoletta Elmi, Stelio Candelli, Nicole Tessier, Bobby Rhodes
Metropol is a large, ornate movie theater, and there is a movie about to be shown that is for invited guests only. The show begins and turns out to be a gory horror film. Then, the moviegoers start turning into the demons shown on the screen, and the real gore begins as those who are not changed run for their lives.
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Demons 2 1986 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: David Edwin Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni, Asia Argento, Bobby Rhodes, Virginia Bryant, Davide Marotta, Anita Bartolucci, Antonio Cantafora, Luisa Passega
Sally (Coralina Cataldi Tassoni) is having a birthday party in her high-rise apartment building. She takes a break from the festivities and turns on the TV in her bedroom. A documentary is being shown of a group of teens investigating a place where demons formerly existed. What do you know, demons are loosened, come out of the TV, and all hell breaks loose in the apartment building as the residents are cut off from the world.
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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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Rabid Dogs 1974  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Kidnapped
Director: Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava
Cast: Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, Maurice Poli, George Eastman, Don Backy, Erika Dario, Maria Fabbri, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Francesco Ferrini, Emilio Bonucci, Ettore Manni
Bank robbers (George Eastman, Maurice Poli, and Don Backy) kidnap a young woman (Lea Lander), a man (Riccardo Cucciolla), and his sick child when they hijack a car in a desperate effort to find safety in Rome.
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| 1. A Blade in the Dark (1983)
aka: House of the Dark Stairway
2. Body Puzzle (1991)
aka: Misteria
3. Delirium (1987)
aka: Photo of Gioia
4. Demons (1985)
5. Demons 2 (1986)
aka: Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns
6. Macabre (1980)
aka: Frozen Terror
7. Rabid Dogs (1974)
aka: Kidnapped
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