‘Uncooked… revealing… daring… with demise because the uninvited visitor!’
Loss of life on the 4 Poster is a 1964 Giallo thriller about younger individuals who maintain a celebration in a citadel and play an occult sport wherein deaths are predicted by a psychic. Quickly it turns into greater than a sport…
The film was directed by Jean Josipovici (Pitié pour les vamps; L’inspecteur connaît la musique; Flesh and Want) and Ambrogio Molteni from a screenplay co-written by Josipovici and Giorgio Stegani. Produced by Ulderico Sciaretta and Pasquale Tagliaferri.
Artwork director Demofilo Fidani went on to direct twenty movies of various genres however primarily Westerns.
The film stars Antonella Lualdi, Michel Lemoine (Seven Girls for Devil; Kiss Me Monster; Citadel of the Creeping Flesh; Succubus), José Greci, John Drew Barrymore (The Clones; Conflict of the Zombies), Gloria Milland, Luisa Rivelli and Mario Valdemarin.
Evaluations:
“As soon as the primary physique is found, the dialogue turns into extra vacuous, the characters grow to be dumber and the pacing slows to a crawl. When the characters aren’t moronically wandering round simply asking to be killed, they’re sitting across the citadel’s essential room wanting bored out of their minds. I may relate.” ★★ The Bloody Pit of Horror
“Total, your complete solid does a terrific job and all of the Nineteen Sixties babes look fantastic – even Catherine the maid sexes it up at one level when she lets her hair out and slips out of her maid’s uniform. Merely put, Loss of life on the Fourposter is a superlative early giallo that gives attractive, campy enjoyable from starting to finish.” Euro Fever
” ….your primary “outdated darkish home” thriller, with suspicious servants, seances, murders, secret passages, and so forth. Concerning the greatest factor new that it provides to the recipe is an obsession with intercourse; a part of the plot revolves round a being pregnant, and far of the footage within the film consists of girls stripping right down to their underwear.” Incredible Film Musings and Ramblings
“With out revealing an excessive amount of, Serena’s head video games give option to a séance; it really works, and never everybody lives to see the sunshine. Viewers’ unfamiliarity with the no-star solid works to the distinct benefit of this tough gem, in that conceivably, anybody may make an early exit.” Flick Assault
” …a few of the regular ‘outdated darkish home’ cliches, such because the sinister groundskeeper/servant, the dodgy fuses and a transferring bookcase that hides a secret passage. Regardless of understanding there’s a killer on the free, individuals persist in going off on their very own and creeping about within the dusty passageways. Nevertheless, there’s an amusing sequence when Vittoria Prada gropes round on the ground for her misplaced glasses, foreshadowing the actions of Velma from many a ‘Scooby Doo’ cartoon!” Mark David Welsh
“I discovered myself more and more pissed off with the movie. Lengthy stretches of underdeveloped, largely forgettable characters speaking isn’t my concept of a very good time. Had the movie pared down its roster of characters and pushed the thriller angle up within the operating time, I in all probability would have loved the time I spent watching Loss of life on the Fourposter. Sadly, there was far an excessive amount of of far too little for me to remain .” You Have Died of Dysentery
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Forged and characters:
John Drew Barrymore … Anthony; Gloria Milland … Franca/Frankie; Luisa Rivelli … Caterina; Antonella Lualdi … Serena; Michel Lemoine … Riccardo; Mario Valdemarin … Carlo; Joe Atlanta … Paul; Massimo Carocci … Georgie; Alberto Cevenini … Lulu; Maria Pia Conte … Nikki; Giuseppe Fortis … Aldo; José Greci … Kitty; Vittoria Prada … Lucy-Ann; Monique Vita … Edie
Unique titles:
Delitto allo specchio “Crime within the Mirror”
Filming areas:
Castello della Castelluccia, Rome (now a lodge and restaurant; Bare You Die was additionally filmed at this identical location).
Notes:
The title on the export print is Loss of life on the Fourposter [sic].
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