October 24, 2010

The Ghost

part 4 of the Bad Horror Marathon



Data
Title: Lo spettro
Year: 1963
Length: 97 minutes
Director: Riccardo Freda
Writers: Oreste Biancoli & Riccardo Freda
Starring: Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin, Elio Jotta, Harriet Medin
Music: Franco Mannino

My reaction
Synopsis: a couple kills the woman's husband, then gets slightly haunted
How I saw it: on video (have on DVD), yesterday
Concept: Terrible. Melodrama!
Story: Bad.
Characters: Indifferent.
Dialog: Bad. Could have been a lot worse, considering it was a dubbed version we saw.
Pacing: Terrible.
Cinematography: Terrible. Spotlights!
Special effects/design: Bad.
Acting: Terrible. Might have been good with the original language track, but the dubbed voices sound like computers.
Music: Bad.
Subjective Rating: 2/10 (Terrible). It's a lot like an episode of Ray Bradbury Theater, except where those shows tend to have ten minutes of material stretched to a half hour, here it's stretched to 97 minutes.
Objective Rating: 0.6/4 (Very bad).

This one's got us seriously re-thinking this plan of watching all these bad horror movies... but I think we're going to keep at it.

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