The life of a beautiful, young and pious woman is thrown into chaos when her parents takes in a dashingly handsome lodger. Having embarked on a torrid affair, the lodger goes off to Rome to seek a divorce from his estranged wife.Unable to live apart from her beloved, our hero leaves home only to fall prey to the infatuations and lusts of a band of noble admirers, unsavoury criminals and utopian do-gooders.
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The Premonition
1976 • United States • Directed by Robert Allen Schnitzer
Beyond The Power Of An Exorcist. The mid-1970s saw the rise in popularity of films centring on the subject of parapsychology, led by Carrie – Brian De Palma’s classic tale of telekinetic terror. Precognition, or future sight, would be the...
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The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
1972 • Italy • Directed by Emilio P. Miraglia
An age-old family curse hits sisters Kitty and Franziska following the death of their grandfather Tobias. Every hundred years, so the legend goes, the bloodthirsty Red Queen returns and claims seven fresh victims. Was Tobias just the first... and are...
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Scalpel
1977 ･ United States ･ Directed by John Grissmer
In Scalpel, Robert Lansing plays Dr. Phillip Reynolds, a man whose daughter Heather (Judith Chapman: As the World Turns, General Hospital) has run away from home a year prior following the suspicious death of her boyfriend. When he happens across ...
