But before that gets started I have (as in previous years) some "leftovers" of movies I wanted to see but did not get around to watching. Tonight is the first.
Tragic Ceremony (1972)
Last year I spent a lot of time watching European, especially Italian, horror films released before 1973. I wanted to get a good feel for what was going on in horror before The Exorcist changed everything.
Tragic Ceremony is a Spanish/Italian flick starring American actress Camille Keaton years before her defining role in "I Spit on Your Grave" in 1978.
Four "hippies" spend some time goofing off in the country when their car runs out of gas. They end up staying at the manor of Lord and Lady Alexander (Luciana Paluzzi). Lady Alexander takes a particular interest in Jane (Keaton) of course. The other three dudes witness a black mass where Lord and Lady Alexander attempt to sacrifice Jane. They stop it and everyone goes insane and they all kill each other.
Jane and her dudes drive away (thought their dune buggy was out of gas?) and they head back to Bill's (one of the guys) home. Soon everyone starts getting killed and no one knows who is doing it.
Eventually, only Jane is left alive, she had been killing them all. She is committed to an asylum but is visited by Lady Alexander (who survived the massacre). Jane walks out of the asylum and into a waiting car where she is transformed into Lady Alexander. Jane's body remains in the asylum where the doctor matter of factly tells us she had been dead this whole time and possessed by LAdy Alexander.
There was a moment there where I thought I had found my "mystery movie" from the 70s. But it turned out not to be it.
I watched this one with my kids, but yeah it is not good. Though I will comment that Camille Keaton's Italian seem to me to be pretty good. I thought it was pretty good in last year's Il Sesso Della Strega (1973) as well.
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4 comments:
That actually sounds quite interesting. Too bad it was “not good.”
Um…what’s this “mystery movie” thing? Are you looking for some film whose name you don’t know / remember? I have a couple films like that!
An interesting start to the Challenge. I love the fact that you always manage to find obscure movies while I tend towards the more mainstream. Great job, Tim. Looking forward to seeing where the month takes you ;)
@JB, It is. I'll have to go into some more detail on it in a bit.
@Tim, I do love the weird, obscure ones that's for sure!
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