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]
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| Directed by | Giorgio Ferroni |
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| Story by | Eduardo Manzanos Brochero[1] |
| Based on | The Family of the Vourdalak by Aleksey Konstantinovich 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 |
Plot
editThe 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
edit- 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
editThe 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.[1] The latter company was founded in 1971 by Roberto Maldera who also had a main role in the film, and Luigi Mariani.[1] The Night of the Devils was shot in five weeks starting in late 1971 to early 1972 near Bracciano Lake.[5] Director Ferroni was 63 when directing the film and nearly deaf and had to shoot the film with the assistance of a hearing aid.[5]
Release
editThe Night of the Devils was distributed theatrically in Italy on 29 April 1972 where it was distributed by P.A.C.[1] It grossed a total of 156,686,000 Italian lire in Italy.[1] It was released in Spain on 25 June 1973.[1]
Reception
editIn 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
editFootnotes
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Curti 2017, p. 74.
- ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. 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.
- ^ a b Andrews, Nigel (February 1973). "Notte dei Diavoli, La (Night of the Devils)". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 40, no. 469. British Film Institute. pp. 32–33.
Sources
edit- Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476629605.
External links
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