Beatrice Cenci (1969)

Review: Beatrice Cenci (1969)

Director: Lucio Fulci

Cast: Adrienne La Russa, Tomas Milian, Georges Wilson, Mavie Bardanzellu, Antonio Casagrande,

Adrienne La Russa
Adrienne La Russa
Tomas Milian
Tomas Milian
Georges Wilson
Georges Wilson
Mavie Bardanzellu
Mavie Bardanzellu
Antonio Casagrande
Antonio Casagrande

Plot: In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano to plan Francesco’s murder.

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Miscellaneous notes: Severin Films

Miscellaneous notes: Severin Films

Severin Films recent Blu-ray special edition of Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman’s Jack the Ripper (1959) is ambitious but compromised; the atmospheric horror film is presented in three different versions, all of which have serious issues […]

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