In the end of the 15th Century, the brother of the feudal lord Count Humboldt (Jean Rafferty) dies and his wife Adele Karnstein is accused of witchcraft and sentenced to be burnt at the stake. Her older daughter Helen Karnstein (Barbara Steele) asks Count Humboldt to postpone the sentence since she will get evidence to prove that her mother is innocent, and is forced to have sex with him. However, his son Baron Kurt Humboldt (George Ardisson) orders Adele's execution and she curses the Humboldt family while dying. Meanwhile Count Humboldt kills Helen to protect himself, throwing her in a river. The servant Grumalda (Laureen Nuyen) collects the ashes of Adele and the body of Helen and buries them together. She tells to Adele's younger daughter Lisabeth Karnstein (Halina Zalewska) where her mother is and raises the girl. When Lisabeth grows older, she is forced to marry Kurt Humboldt that confess to his father that he poisoned his brother, and not Adele. The plague arrives in the feud and, in a stormy night, a mysterious woman named Mary (Barbara Steele) arrives in the village and seduces Kurt, in the beginning of Helen's revenge.
"I lunghi capelli della morte", a.k.a. "The Long Hair of Death", is an atmospheric gothic Italian horror movie. The ghost story of injustice and revenge is very good. The high-quality direction of Antonio Margheriti uses the black-and-white cinematography with shadows in a magnificent way. Barbara Steele is very beautiful and the tension is built until the climax in the conclusion. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "A Máscara do Demônio" ("The Demon Mask")
"I lunghi capelli della morte", a.k.a. "The Long Hair of Death", is an atmospheric gothic Italian horror movie. The ghost story of injustice and revenge is very good. The high-quality direction of Antonio Margheriti uses the black-and-white cinematography with shadows in a magnificent way. Barbara Steele is very beautiful and the tension is built until the climax in the conclusion. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "A Máscara do Demônio" ("The Demon Mask")