The House with Laughing Windows (1976) La Casa Dalle Finestre Che Ridono

Made in 1976 The House With Laughing Windows may sound like a silly title for a movie but believe me there is no humour in this beautiful looking horror tale that has become one of the most acclaimed Italian horror thrillers in history. While low on the gore front La Casa dalle finestre che ridono to use its proper title is at times so disturbing 

that it literally trounces on the entire American horror output for this sort of movie.

Starting as it means to go on the movie opens with a naked man hanging from a ceiling while knives are seen repeatedly launching into his face and body, the camera lens sepia in its colour. While I assume the change to sepia was designed to cut down on the blood side, this trick actually makes the movie look far worse, and offers a pretty horrific opening, in fact possibly one of the most horrific openings of any movie. This little addition is not helped by the creepy voice of Bruno Legnani (Tonino Corazzari) recounting in an almost spellbinding way how he loves painting the colours of yellow, the yellow of his blood.

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Zeder (1983)

While I had been familiar with the writing of Pupi Avati who wrote one of my favourite Italian horror movies Macabre, as a director I had somehow avoided his work. Avati received much acclaim for his incredibly dark movie The House With Windows That Laugh aka La Casa Delle Finestre Che Ridono in 1976; but his later work Zeder (1983) was much more commonly seen and cemented his career as an Italian legend.

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