Tragic Ceremony (1972)

Original title

Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea

Directed by

Riccardo Freda

Genre

horror film

Country

Italy, Spain

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young people stay at a remote estate during a rainstorm and witness a black mass. Afterwards they find themselves haunted by unexplained events.

atmosphericcreepymysteriousslow-burneerietensegothicunsettling

What happens

Tragic Ceremony (Italian: Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea—lit. Extracted from the Secret Police Archives of a European Capital; Spanish: Trágica ceremonia en villa Alexander—lit. Tragic ceremony in Villa Alexander) is a 1972 Gothic horror film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Camille Keaton, Tony Isbert, Máximo Valverde, and Irina Demick in her final film role. Its plot follows a group of young people who find themselves haunted in the hours after witnessing a black mass while lodging at a remote estate during a rainstorm. The film received a limited theatrical release in Italy on 20 December 1972. In 2004 it was restored and shown as part of the retrospective "Storia Segreta del Cinema Italiano: Italian Kings of the Bs" at the 61st Venice International Film Festival. The film was never dubbed in English and it's distributed worldwide by Variety Distribution. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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