Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA family of 4 makes a long drive to Aunt Martha's house to visit her for the first time in years. Only she isn't there. Just the caretaker and his message that she will appear the next day..... Ler tudoA family of 4 makes a long drive to Aunt Martha's house to visit her for the first time in years. Only she isn't there. Just the caretaker and his message that she will appear the next day...if they survive the night.A family of 4 makes a long drive to Aunt Martha's house to visit her for the first time in years. Only she isn't there. Just the caretaker and his message that she will appear the next day...if they survive the night.
- Georgia Hamilton
- (as Jessica Moore)
- Aunt Martha
- (as Sacha M. Darwin)
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A family, consisting of a father (Gabriele "Mr. Laura Gemser" Tinti), his second wife (Adriana Russo), and his three children--a young son, a voluptuous "teenage" daughter (Jessica Moore), and his adult son who shows up later--all drive out to a secluded family estate to meet the father's "Aunt Martha" who has just been released after spending thirty years in a mental institution for the criminally insane. Naturally this sounds like bad idea, but if dumb characters didn't do dumb stuff like this, we'd have a lot less gory horror movies. The place is managed by a creepy caretaker and "Aunt Martha's" arrival is mysteriously delayed. Meanwhile, all kinds of strange things begin to occur. . .
This movie is not very well paced as almost all the murders take place in a ten minute period near the end. They're suitably gory at least--one thing I like about the Italians is that they have no compunctions about doing things like decapitating annoying child actors with chainsaws. Tinti is always enjoyable, even in roles like this where he's not making "the beast with two backs" with his more famous wife. Russo and Moore both have memorable nude scenes. I think the former might be the sister of the voluptuous Carmen Russo (they look a lot alike anyway) while the latter appeared in several Joe D'Amato movies like "11 Days, 11 Nights" and "Convent of Sinners". (Here she takes a very long and very hot shower that all by itself might be worth the price of admission). Unlike most latter-day Fulci films or Bianchi's earlier "Satan's Baby Doll", this is not yet available on legitimate DVD. But it really ought to be.
By lack of a better term, I'd label this as a late 80s giallo, since there's an unseen assailant butchering people in bloody imaginative ways. The plot is completely messed up and hints at several absurd denouement-twists at the end, the spooky soundtrack is terrific and writer/director Mario Bianchi is not afraid to overuse it, there's a supposedly teenage daughter (Jessica Moore) with a perfect body taking long and gratuitous showers and the gore is so explicit that even 10-year-olds cannot escape the whirring chainsaws. Richard Hamilton receives a letter from his aunt Martha to announce that she'll be leaving the mental asylum after 30 years, and he promptly takes his entire family out to her house in the countryside. Isn't that what any good father and husband would do? Aunt Martha isn't there, but the exaggeratedly friendly caretaker ensures them she'll be arriving the next day. Or maybe the day after that. If only they wait long enough, they will meet certain death! The pacing is incredibly slow, with only Gianni Sposito's gloomy soundtrack frequently reminding us that we are watching a horror movie. Then follows an outrageous 15 minutes with more than enough gore & sickness to justify why we love watching this junk!
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- CuriosidadesOne of six films that director Lucio Fulci edited into his very own feature Um Gato no Cérebro (1990). The other ones are Bloody Psycho (1989), Hansel e Gretel (1990), Massacre (1989), Fantasmas de Sodoma (1988) and Quando Alice ruppe lo specchio (1988).
- Erros de gravaçãoOn the drive to Zia Marta's, one of Nora's lines is heard, but her mouth doesn't move.
- Citações
Aunt Martha: [to Richard, Title] Don't be afraid of Aunt Marta ... Your mother left you with me a lot when you were little, until the day she decided to steal my fortune and arranged to have me shut up in that horrible place for more than 30 years! 30 years of terrible suffering. And you, you, oh yes, you! You could have gotten me out. Why didn't you? Why did you leave your aunt like that, my angel? Why did you choose to leave her there?, Those years have been an eternity. So then why? Why did you do it?
- ConexõesEdited into Um Gato no Cérebro (1990)
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