CinemaOSMovie · 2022 · 0h 20m

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

Behind the castle walls, terror may be more than imagination

Documentary

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.

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 20m
Language
EN
Released
October 18, 2022
Studios
Arrow Films

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1 credited
Starring

Keith Allison

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Written by
Keith Allison
Produced by
Michael Mackenzie
Michael Mackenzie

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