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La Casa Sfuggita
The Shunned House
Italy 2003
produced by
Studio Interzona
directed by Ivan Zuccon
starring Giuseppe Lorusso, Federica Quaglieri, Emanuele Cerman, Silva Ferreri, Michael Segal, Cristiana Vaccaro, Nicolò Viganelli, Nicoletta Verri, Claudio Viganelli, Roberta Marrelli, Cinzia Vaccari, Stefania Andreotti, Enrico Saletti, Micaela Antolini, Roberta Romagnoli, Eleanora Gaiba, Fabio Barbieri, Valerio Zuccon, Andrea Barioni, Francesco Malaspina
screenplay by Enrico Saletti, Ivan Zuccon, based on short stories by H.P.Lovecraft, music by AcidVacuum
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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A researcher (researcher of whatsoever, actually) & his girlfriend visit an allegedly haunted
house. Soon brutal murders & violent proceedings from the past
unravel before their very eyes, soon it becomes apparent, that instead
of unveiling the secrets of the haunted house they have very much become
entangled into them ... or was it just the hallucinogenic & toxic
mould that covers the house, that causes these macabre visions ...
If you think this synopsis doesn't make much sense, you should have
seen the movie ... but, strangely enough, the lack in logic & storytelling works very much in favour of this film instead of against
it, a little bit like sucking you into the weird world of the
proceedings instead of explaining them away, thus making them bland like
your average Hollywood movie would do - in his best movies, Lucio Fulci
actually used pretty much the same routine of deliberately sacrificing
logic to atmosphere, to similar effect.
Some of the scenes of the movie are really unsettling, like the woman
repeatedly banging her head against the wall, actually making it (the
head, not the wall - that's another scene) bleed - an image often
repeated during the film - or like the
woman having to play a tune on her violin to ward off evil - when finally
all its strings are torn, she cuts open her arm & continues playing
on her veins ... |
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