I tre volti della paura (1963)
Nurse Helen Corey is called to the home of ailing clairvoyant Madame Perkins, where she discovers the old woman is dead. Filled with greed, Helen takes a diamond ring from the corpse and wears it. However, that night she is haunted by the ghost of Madame Perkins and the next day her body is found with a missing ring finger.
Rosy, a call girl, begins to receive threatening phone calls from someone she sent to prison. She invites her friend Mary to stay with her for protection, but the caller breaks into their apartment and accidentally kills Mary. Rosy kills the caller in self-defense but continues to receive phone calls from the dead man, who promises to torment her forever.
Vladimir D'Urfe, a young nobleman, encounters a family who are anxiously awaiting the return of their father, Gorca, who has gone to kill a bandit. Gorca warned that if he doesn't return within five days, he will have become a Wurdalak, a vampire who thirsts for the blood of loved ones. Vladimir falls in love with Sdenka and they flee to a convent after Gorca returns and kills every member of the family, turning them into vampires as well. Gorca tracks them down and kills Sdenka, who then kills Vladimir in his embrace. The cycle of the Wurdalak comes to an end.
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Richard Bojarski and Kenneth Beals The Films of Boris Karloff Secaucus, NJ, 1974 |
I tre volti della paura
Italy / United Kingdom / France 1963
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Italy / United Kingdom / France 1963
Directed by
Salvatore Billitteri
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