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The Long Hair Of Death

 

Picture: C-     Sound: C-     Extras: D     Film: C

 

 

No, this is not an ultra Right-Wing propaganda film against the dangers of being a hippie or a threat that they will kill you if you become one.  Instead, this is a 1964 early Barbara Steele film in which she is to be tried as a witch, be killed, be captured forever, and also lands up in some Fantasy/Horror sequences with smoke effects here and there.  The Long Hair Of Death (I Lunghi capelli della morte) is about 100 minutes of people talking to each other in fake outfits from an independent production company called Cinegay!

 

That and Miss Steele’s presence adds a camp quality to the whole thing, but that is not enough to make it more than an interesting at best series of black and white vignettes about if she will or will not survive, which somehow sets the tone for her whole career.  This was one of her first films, set in the late 15th Century.  Despite not going anywhere, Steele fans will be happy and we have seen worse.

 

The letterboxed 1.85 X 1 image is muddy and off of an old analog master down a few generations, but you get about the whole picture.  I like the fake look of the film, for as much as could be seen, as shot by cinematographer Riccardo Pallottini (as Richard Thierry).  The Dolby Digital 2.0 English-dubbed Mono (over the original Italian) has background hiss throughout and Carlo Rustichelli’s score (under the name Evirust) uses as few chords as today’s bubblegum hits.  There are no extras, but it is an interesting film just the same.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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