Lisa and the Devil / Baron Blood

LISA AND THE DEVIL, 1972, International Media Films, 95 min. Dir. Mario Bava. Released in a butchered form as THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM, this complete version is one of Bava’s masterworks. Tourist Elke Sommer is lured by devil Telly Savalas into a household of white lilies and rotting corpses. Caught in a time warp of decadent, aristocratic decay and horrifying, half-remembered memories of a fatal amour fou, Sommer tries desperately to find her way out of the nightmare. But there may be no escape. Elegiac and dreamlike, with Bava’s own poetic brand of morbid, melancholic lyricism.

BARON BLOOD (GLI ORRORI DEL CASTELLO DI NORIMBERGA), 1972, International Media Films, 100 min. Dir. Mario Bava. Lovely Elke Sommer is menaced by Joseph Cotten, a 400-year-old sadistic nobleman bent on restoring his youth in Bava’s gruesome, grand guignol Gothic. With Massimo Girotti, Rada Rassimov.