It’s an anthology horror film in three parts- stories about guilt and greed mainly because reckoned with from beyond the grave
All 3 stories feature beauties
The first story with the dripping water is the best by a decent margin—there is a flashing neon light lighting scheme that’s quite brilliant- predates refn, greenaway, WKW and others but clearly borrowing form vertigo
Speaking of vertigo we have the decapitated head with black background (Karloff here instead of jimmy stewart) credit sequence
Karloff is the narrator for the first two films and then is in the third- he’s a great voice- it’s a great story how he was both a physical actor who went from man with a presence in the Frankenstein films to a man with a voice—much like say tom hardy
3rd film is more gothic in nature like some of bava’s other work—neon lighting comes back for the last 10 minute worth of exteriors at night
Part AIP Corman films (this is from AIP) with Price and part like Hammer fimlms
Based on terror you can’t really see and it’s well done by bava- pure cinema as he evokes the terror through camera and editing
Karloff looks horrifying (pic above) in finale- good makeup work
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