Release Date

18 Oct, 2022

Runtime

00:20: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Behind the castle walls, terror may be more than imagination

A video essay on the film by writer and pop culture historian Keith Allison where he gives a concise historical-and-critical companion to Alberto De Martino’s 1963 The Blancheville Monster—released in Italy as Horror. Rather than functioning as a production-history interview, it places the film within the early-1960s revival of Gothic horror and then reads its particular blend of Poe-inspired nightmare, old-dark-house melodrama, and psychological uncertainty.

Original Title

Are You Sure That It Wasn’t Just Your Imagination?

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Actors

Crew

Keith Allison

Jonathan Zaurin

Michael Mackenzie