Gianna Maria Canale
Giselle du Grand
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Lust of the Vampire: Directed by Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava. With Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo D'Angelo, Dario Michaelis, Wandisa Guida. Paris. Young girls are found dead, drained from their blood. A journalist investigates these murders while the beautiful Gisele, from a noble family, tries to seduce him.
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- Horror
- Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava
- 1963
Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for The Devil's Commandment (1956) - Riccardo Freda on AllMovie - This Italian vampire tale stars Gianna Maria…
- Riccardo Freda
The journalist Pierre Lantin (Dario Michaelis) begins to investigate, and becomes more involved when his fiancee, the dancer Nora Duval is kidnapped. As Inspector Chantal (Carlo D’Angelo) examines the crime scene, Lantin arrives predicting that the crime was committed by The Vampire.
The Devil's Commandment. A French journalist ties drained corpses to a mad doctor's plot to give a countess (Gianna Maria Canale) eternal youth.
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- Robert Davidson
- Horror
Lust of the Vampire, also known as I Vampiri or The Devil's Commandment, is the first Italian horror movie with sound and only the second horror movie ever produced in Italy at that time. The horror movement in Italy only really took off after the release of Black Sunday !
This movie has other virtues, though, that can’t be accounted for by the novelty of many unrelated things being copied at once. The Devil’s Commandment also exhibits a maturity and sophistication with regard to psychological and social issues that is truly shocking in light of subsequent Italian horror films. The behavior and motivation of ...
