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Paolo Paoloni & Bettina Milne are an old couple obsessed with clocks who seem to be perfectly
content with their lives - even if that involves keeping the corpses of
their nephew & niece, who they have killed some years ago, in the
attic, nailed to their deathbeds, no less, & occasionally killing
one of their maids. But then, a trio of youngsters (Karina Huff, Kieth
Van Hoven, Peter Hintz) arrive & they want to rob the couple. Soon
though, it gets nasty & violent, & the youngsters shoot the
oldtimers & their disfigured gardener (cult fave Al Cliver). But
then time seems to move backwards & it gets really nasty, as
the old couple & the gardener are revived again & making
attempts on the youngsters' lives with almost everything in the book
from wooden stakes to chainsaws. But as time moves back some more, even
nephew & niece reawake, & they are going for uncle & auntie,
in the end taking their place ...
The next day, the youngsters wake up in their car as if nothing had
happened, thinking it was all a bad trip. Even the cat they suffocated
in a plastic bag the day before is alive again - violently attacking them
while they are driving, causing their car to crash & killing them
all ...
Actually, this movie has some really good concepts which could have
made it into fine art movies - the old couple killing their nephew &
niece but nursing their corpses, time running backwards having one
relive his past sins (okay, so this one made it into the bittersweet Groundhog
Day, definitely not an art movie) -, but when director Lucio Fulci - not
a man of subtleties - takes over directorial reigns, you just know the
these concepts get a more visceral treatment, of course including rotten
corpses & gore galore. That said, La Casa nel Tempo is actually one
of his finer works of his late period (which in this context includes
everything he did past 1985, when the heyday of Italo horrors were
over), due to beautiful photography, nice settings, fast-paced
storytelling & a story in which Fulci's typical lacks of logic make
sense (if you know what I mean). The actors are completely wooden
though.
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