Short Night Of Glass Dolls (1971)
Short Night Of Glass Dolls (1971)
BDRip | MKV | 1024x436 | x264 @ 3164 Kbps | 96 min | 2,45 Gb
Audio: Italiano and English - each track AAC 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Horror, Mystery
BDRip | MKV | 1024x436 | x264 @ 3164 Kbps | 96 min | 2,45 Gb
Audio: Italiano and English - each track AAC 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Director: Aldo Lado
Writers: Aldo Lado, Rüdiger von Spies (additional dialogue) (as Ruediger von Spiehs)
Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf
Greg Moore, an American journalist visiting Prague with his girlfriend Mira is found dead. However, he's actually only temporarily paralyzed, but the coroner fails to realize this and proceeds to prepare him for the autopsy. While Moore awaits his doom, he tries to recollect what has happened to him. It all starts when his girl disappears. He asks his friend, a local journalist, for help. They discover that this was just the latest in a series of disappearances of young pretty girls in the area. Their investigation leads them to a strange high profile private club, whose affluent members practice odd ritualistic orgies and bizarre dark rites.
Aldo Lado's directorial debut is a mixed bag of confusion and greatly innovating ideas but, eventually, it's the director's ingeniousness that triumphs, and he makes this "Short Night of the Glass Dolls" a must-see experience for Italian horror fans, more particularly the admirers of typical gialli. Lado's intelligent script combines different styles like typically Hitchcockian thrillers, detective stories and near the end even pure occult horror! American reporter in Prague Gregory Moore is pronounced dead in a local hospital but his brain functions are very much alive and slowly reconstructing the fiendish conspiracy that put him into this disturbing medical condition. Gregory's stunningly beautiful girlfriend Mira vanished shortly after a social gathering and, during his private investigation, he discovers that many prominent citizens hide macabre secrets. I realize this is a very basic description of the story, but it really is all I can say without revealing essential clues. The actual denouement, albeit far-fetched, is truly unexpected and the grand finale at the hospital left me completely speechless which is a rare event! Even though it was only his first horror effort, Aldo Lado proves himself to be a master when it comes to building up tension and he has a talented eye for imaginative camera-work. The classy location of Prague provides this film with one of the most beautiful settings in European horror cinema ever and Lado could also count on mesmerizing musical guidance by Ennio Morricone. The song entitled "Short Night of the Butterflies" is a real beauty. Highly recommended to fans of atmospheric, story-driven horror movies.
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Short Night Of Glass Dolls (1971)
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