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Shock (1977)

Shock poster
Original title
Schock
Directed by
Lamberto Bava, Mario Bava
Genre
horror film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
R
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 137 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman moves back into the house she once shared with her dead husband. She starts experiencing strange and frightening events there.

tensemelancholicunsettlingslow-burncreepysupernaturalhauntingatmospheric

What happens

Shock (Italian: Schock) is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Mario Bava and starring Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, and David Colin, Jr. Its plot focuses on a woman who moves into the home she shared with her deceased former husband, where she finds herself tormented by supernatural occurrences. It was Bava's last theatrical feature before he died of a heart attack in 1980. In the United States, the film was released under the title Beyond the Door II as an unofficial sequel to Beyond the Door (1974) and second entry into the Beyond the Door trilogy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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