This atmospheric Italian period Gothic features one of Barbara Steele's greatest performances. When a sadistic count kills his unfaithful wife and her lover, he finds out that his wife's will stated that all her fortunes be handed over to her sister after death. Having remarried her sister, the count then starts to experience paranormal encounters with his first wife (now gruesomely deformed).
Clearly made to cash-in on the success of Mario Bava's "Black Sunday", Steele plays dual-roles as woman and monster in both films. Although Mario Caiano's directon is slow-moving and tedious, Ennio Morricone's effective score adds suitable tension to the film.
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