The Third Eye (1966)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The third eye |
| Original title | Il terzo occhio |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mino Guerrini |
| script | Mino Guerrini, Piero Regnoli |
| production |
Luigi Carpentieri (partly as Louis Mann) , Ermano Donati (partly as Louis Mann) |
| music |
Francesco De Masi (partly as Frank Mason) |
| camera |
Alessandro D'Eva (partly as Sandy Deaves) |
| cut |
Ornella Micheli (partly as Donna Christie) |
| occupation | |
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The third eye (original title Il terzo occhio ) is an Italian horror film by director Mino Guerrini from 1966. Franco Nero can be seen as a young count who threatens to slide into madness.
The screenplay by Guerrini (partly also performed as James Warren) and Piero Regnoli (partly also performed as Dean Craig) is based on a story by Gilles De Reys and Phil Young.
action
The young Count Mino lives with his dominant mother, the Contessa, in a gloomy castle-like mansion with dark corridors and a laboratory where he stuffs animals. The housekeeper Marta, who is jealous of everyone with whom Mino interacts, helps both of them. Mino and the attractive Laura want to go to the altar in a few days. However, this does not happen because the young woman had a fatal accident. Only a little later, the young count suffered another stroke of fate, his mother was found dead.
This deprives the unstable young count, who after the death of his father lived dependent on his mother, with whom he even slept in bed, his last hold on. His mind darkens and he kills young women in the area at random. Marta, who loves Mino unconditionally, covers his actions, especially since she has charged her own guilt. Together with the Contessa she planned the accident in which Mino's fiancée fell victim and then murdered his mother when she tried to throw her out of the house. Like Mino's mother once, she now rules the young count. However, she couldn't prevent Mino from preparing Laura's body and laying it in his bed.
About a year later, Mino receives a visit from Laura's younger sister Daniela, who is Laura's image. Marta plans to kill this one too. However, Mino is convinced that his bride has returned and kills Martha. When his anger is directed against the wrong bride, he realizes that he is less and less of his mind and threatens to slide into madness. When the police intervene, he flees with Daniela, who is helpless in the car.
production
The film was produced by Panda Società per L'Industria Cinematografica. On the Italian movie poster, Mino Guerrini goes by the name of James Warren.
The spelling Das 3. Auge was chosen on the German film poster at the start of the film . Another spelling is The Third Eye , another title Killer with a third eye .
Publication, DVD
The film was first released in Italy on June 11, 1966. It was first seen in the Federal Republic of Germany on May 26, 1967. In Denmark it was published under the title Blodige hænder in August 1968 and in France under the title Le froid baiser de la mort in June 1971. In the US it was published under the title The Third Eye .
The film was released on DVD with a German soundtrack on July 18, 2002, published by EMS GmbH as part of the “International Film Classics” series. There the title is written in Das III. Eye guided.
criticism
"Banal horror shocker in a clumsy staging, with mediocre performance."
“An unpleasant mixture of 'sex and crime', cheap and flavourful in terms of both film and content. We advise against it. "
On the Schlombie's film reviews page , the film is described as “successful” and it is stated that Guerrini has “a heavily played and darkly implemented psychogram, which gives any figure enough background and substance to be more than one of the many soulless and nonsensical Thrillers about psycho killers who did not understand the drive of their protagonist “, staged and co-authored. In conclusion, it says: “Guerrini's work combines the style of Gothic horror with that of the psychological thriller, and also lets a premature breath of Giallo waft through the action, an Italian sub-genre that was only to become the for that in the 1970s it stands."
Adam Kesher explained for the OFDb - online film database : “Mino Guerrini designs the count's remote castle with selected artificiality as a deceptive idyll, as a picturesque island that is morally suspended from the rest of the world. Franco Nero's theatrical play fits into the rapt atmosphere of violence and perversion and, especially in the orgasmic moments of murder, knows how to illustrate the pernicious coupling of love and death from which the character suffers. A strange little early Giallo, which is sometimes brilliant, but often also affected. "
Another criticism of the online film database reads: “The story, which is typical of the privileged rulers, is wonderfully vicious, crude and striking and shows the intellectual and moral decline of a degenerate, incestuous noble family that vegetates in its walls largely isolated from the outside world and loses touch with reality to a terrifying extent. With that, 'The Third Eye' has a lot of a Gothic creep and could in principle also take place in the Victorian era, although it was apparently settled in the present. ”Italo-Western star Franco Nero ('Django') is in as Count Mino a "unusual role for him".
At Nightmare-Horrormovies.de the film got eight out of ten possible horror characters and the final rating: “'The third eye' is a small and unknown jewel from Italy, which is dominated by very good actors and a good story. Unfortunately, the film has not been very well known so far and is only known to insiders of the genre. "
The Bloody Pit of Horror page states that from a technical point of view this is a pretty good movie; Direction, score, script and acting are all above average. There is a lot of tension and some sudden outbursts of violence to stay awake. Subtext and implications are extremely perverse for 1966. Franco Nero's effectiveness is confirmed in his role. The achievements of the three women are excellent.
Web links
- The third eye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 1. Synchro in the German dubbing index
- 2. Synchro in the German dubbing index
- Dirty Pictures: The Third Eye - Mino Gerrini sS dirtypictures.phpbb8.de
- Il terzo occhio Fig. Another movie poster
Individual evidence
- ↑ Il Terzo Occhio sSipinimg.com ill. Film poster
- ↑ Il terzo Occhio see kinoart.net
- ↑ The 3rd Eye Fig. Film poster sS moviepilot.de
- ↑ Franco Nero The 3rd Eye Fig. Film poster sS kinoart.net
- ↑ The III. Eye - Il Terzo occhio Fig. DVD case
- ↑ The third eye. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 225/1967 on The Third Eye .
- ^ The third eye (Il terzo occhio 1966 Mino Guerrini) sS schlombies-filmbesommunikungen.blogspot.de, October 23, 2016. Accessed March 11, 2018.
- ↑ Adam Kesher: Das third Auge sS ssl.ofdb.de, March 7, 2005. Accessed March 11, 2018.
- ↑ The third eye sS June 1 ssl.ofdb.de, 2012. Accessed March 11, 2018th
- ^ The third eye see nightmare-horrormovies.de, July 6, 2010. Accessed on March 11, 2018.
- ↑ Il terzo occhio (1966) see thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.de (English). Retrieved March 11, 2018.
