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Night of the Devils / La notte dei diavoli (1972) [Re-UP]

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Date: 10 May 2015 10:49:00
Night of the Devils / La notte dei diavoli (1972) [Re-UP]

Night of the Devils (1972)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:29:17 | 6,99 Gb
Audio: English, Italian - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each) | Subs: English, German
Genre: Horror

Director: Giorgio Ferroni
Stars: Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli, Roberto Maldera

The 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.

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Directed by prolific director Giorgio Ferroni, the man best known to horror fans for directing The Mill Of The Stone Women, 1972’s The Night Of The Devils sees Gianni Garko play a man locked inside a mental hospital after he’s pulled from a river. Never addressed by his name, as the doctors poke and prod at him his memory is spurred and the film then plays as a giant flashback as to what happened to him and how he wound up there.

Night of the Devils / La notte dei diavoli (1972) [Re-UP]

We see him drive his car through the woods somewhere in Eastern Europe where a mechanical failure leaves him stranded in the middle of nowhere. He wanders through the woods and soon finds a home inhabited by a quirky family presided over by a man named Gorca Ciuvelak (William Vanders) who has recently returned home after getting involved with an attempt to spear a witch who lives out in the woods – a wurdulak, if you will. After Gorca’s arrival, it quickly becomes obvious that he’s not who he once was, something is definitely different about him. Gorca’s son knows this but his daughter, the beautiful Sdenka (Agostino Belli), holds out hope as Garko’s character quickly falls in love with her. As the family tries to figure out what to do, chaos erupts and our hero quickly finds himself fighting for his life.

Night of the Devils / La notte dei diavoli (1972) [Re-UP]

Very similar in structure to Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath (both films are based on Aleksey Tolstoy’s short story ‘Lu Famille du Wurdulak’), The Night Of The Devils ups the sex and violence considerably when compared to Bava’s picture, made only ten years prior. The opening ten minutes or so is a pretty heavy salvo of blood, guts and sex as we’re treated with full frontal female nudity, a gun blast to the face and a decomposing skull riddled with maggots. From there the movie slows down the pace quite a bit but damn if it doesn’t make a pretty strong first impression! Though the middle part of the film is very much subdued, things definitely pick up again as the story comes to its finish and while the twist that occurs towards the end is one most fans will see coming, it doesn’t lake for impact thanks to some clever framing and an inspired physical performance from Garko in a role far removed from the cowboy roles he is best remembered for.

Night of the Devils / La notte dei diavoli (1972) [Re-UP]

The rest of the cast also fare quite well here. Vanders is sympathetic in his role as the fatherly Gorca (the role that Karloff played in Bava’s version). He has a kindness and a wisdom to him here that serves the part well and he really just works well in the role. Also impressive, though for different reasons, is Agostino Belli. Striking, beautiful and completely sympathetic it’s all too easy to see why Garko’s character would quickly fall in love with her. Throwing the equally attractive Teresa Gimpera into the mix doesn’t hurt things either. The rest of the cast also fare well, with some quirky child actors who cackle maniacally during a key moment during the finale adding some spooky atmosphere to the proceedings.

Night of the Devils / La notte dei diavoli (1972) [Re-UP]

The effects in the film were handled by Carlo Rambaldi, best known for work on pictures like Fulci’s Lizard In A Woman’s Skin. They’re fairly strong stuff, from the aforementioned opening scene to the sequences involving some face melting there’s no shortage of grue, all rendered quite effectively here. The score, which comes courtesy of composer Giorgio Gaslini, is atypical for a movie of this type. It seems more interested in contrasting what’s happening on screen (something Gaslini discusses in the interview in the extras) than complimenting it but it works well in its own strange way, even if it periodically uses a bizarre ‘boing’ sound that feels like it was lifted from an episode of Loony Tunes. Beautifully shot by cinematographer Manuel Berenguer the film shows off some excellent use of color and of shadow and light. A few well timed close ups help to heighten the tension in a few important sequences, resulting in a movie that, despite some slower moments, manages to be as memorably bizarre and macabre as it is entertaining.

Night of the Devils / La notte dei diavoli (1972) [Re-UP]

Raro Video gives The Night Of The Devils its first ever home video release first on DVD. While this isn’t a transfer that will blow your mind, it’s a pretty substantial step up from how most fans have seen it until now and having it uncut and in its original aspect ratio in good quality will make this a nice addition for man Euro horror fans. Throw in a few decent extras and this one comes up a winner.
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Night of the Devils / La notte dei diavoli (1972) [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Video Interview with FANGORIA magazine's Chris Alexander (5:26)
- Video Interview with composer Giorgio Gaslini (30:35)

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