| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Anna Maria Rosati |
Laura
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| Luigi Pistilli |
Albert
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| Giovanni Nuvoletti |
Brunhilda
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| Claudio Volonte |
Simon
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| Chris Avran |
Ventura
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| Claudine Auger |
Renata
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| Isa Miranda |
The Countess
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| Robert Bonani |
Mrs. Fusadi, the clairvoyant
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| Claudio Camaso |
Simon (as Claudio Volonté)
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| Cristea Avram |
Frank Ventura
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| Leopoldo Trieste |
Paolo Fosatti
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| Laura Betti |
Anna Fosatti
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| Brigitte Skay |
Brunhilda
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| Isa Miranda |
Countess Federica Donati
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| Paola Rubens |
Denise
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Horror; Thriller |
| Director |
Mario Bava |
| Writer |
Franco Barberi; Mario Bava |
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| Language |
Italian |
| Audience Rating |
R |
| Running Time |
1 hr 30 mins |
| Country |
Italy |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| A family's murderous battle over some bayfront property is the subject of director Mario Bava 's bloody horror-thriller, which many have cited as the grandfather of the modern slasher film. Claudine Auger is the scheming daughter of a murdered Countess; her staged suicide forms the basis of the film's plot. In a seemingly unrelated subplot, four hippies arrive in a dune buggy led by Brigitte Skay , who dances the Shake and swims naked before having her throat hacked open with a machete. Skay 's boyfriend has his face chopped with the same machete and the other couple has a spear thrust through their bodies as they make love. All of these murder scenes were imitated in Steve Miner 's Friday the 13th, Part 2 , and the film's style influenced countless American slasher films of the 1970s and '80s. Bava also includes a strangulation by telephone cord, a gory axe decapitation, a man speared to a wall, and five other murders. Antefatto was a trendsetting film, and paved the way for literally hundreds of graphically violent imitations. The film exists in several versions, differing mainly in the extent of the bloodshed. — Robert Firsching |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
No |
| Index |
387 |
| In Collection |
Yes |
| Purchase Date |
8/4/2003 |
| Tape Label |
134 |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
VHS |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
2003 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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