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Blood Delirium (1988)

Blood Delirium poster
Original title
Delirio di sangue
Directed by
Sergio Bergonzelli
Genre
horror film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A painter goes insane after his wife dies. He brings a young pianist to his castle because she looks like his dead wife. He discovers that blood from murder victims reignites his artistic inspiration, so his butler hunts more women for him while the pianist is held captive.

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What happens

Blood Delirium (Italian: Blood Delirium (Delirio di sangue)) is a direct-to-video Italian horror film directed by Sergio Bergonzelli. The film involves the painter Saint Simon (John Phillip Law) who loses his sanity after the death of his wife. Along with his butler Hermann (Gordon Mitchell), they meet a young pianist named Sybille (Brigitte Christiensen) who resembles his dead wife home to their castle. After Saint Simon discovers that blood from a murder victim re-inspires him artistically, he orders Hermann to seek out more women for him while Sybille is held captive in the castle. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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