The Night of the Devils
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| Directed by | Giorgio Ferroni |
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| Story by | Eduardo Manzanos Brochero[1] |
| Based on | Sem'ya vurdalaka by Aleksey Tolstoy |
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| Cinematography | Manuel Berenguer[1] |
| Edited by | Gianmaria Messeri[1] |
| Music by | Giorgio Gaslini[1] |
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| Distributed by | P.A.C. |
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Running time | 89 minutes[1] |
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| Box office | ₤156.686 million |
The Night of the Devils (Italian: La notte dei diavoli, Spanish: La noche de los diablos) is a 1972 film directed by Giorgio Ferroni. It is loosely based on the Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's novel The Family of the Vourdalak.[2][3][4]
Plot
The patriarch of a wealthy family fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs them.
Cast
- Gianni Garko: Nicola
- Agostina Belli: Sdenka
- Roberto Maldera: Jovan
- Bill Vanders: Gorka Ciuvelak
- Cinzia De Carolis: Irina
- Maria Monti: Witch
- Teresa Gimpera: Elena
- Umberto Raho: Dr. Tosi
Production
The Night of the Devils was an Italian and Spanish co-production financed by Eduardo Manzanos Brochero's Copercines and two Italian companies: Filmes and Due Emme.
Release
The Night of the Devils was distributed theatrically in Italy on 29 April 1972 where it was distributed by P.A.C.
Reception
In a contemporary review, Nigel Andrews reviewed a dubbed 88 minute version.[6] Andrews stated that despite "the brief surrealist promise of the opening scenes-a close-up of a face crawling with larvae cutting ingeniously to Niccola's head enveloped in the serpentine wires of an encephalograph", Night of the Devils had "all the usual defects of a low-budget horror quickie-careless direction, mechanical performances, some obtrusively unconvincing day-for-night sequences" find that the film "provides little in the way of style to compensate for a story which staggers dully from one bloodthirsty set-piece to another."[6]
References
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Curti 2017, p. 74.
- ISBN 8876059695.
- ^ "The Night of the Devils Blu-ray". blu-ray.com. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ^ Hal Erickson (2016). "Night of the Devils (1972)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ^ a b Curti 2017, p. 76.
- ^ Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 40, no. 469. British Film Institute. pp. 32–33.
Sources
- Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476629605.
External links
- The Night of the Devils at IMDb
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