After the death of his parents in an auto accident Giovanni Bernardi is invited to see his grandpa Count Marco Anselmi.During his stay in the old villa John sees a mysterious and ethereal girl named Veronique.She died during the First World War and now her spirit haunts the living..."La Lunga Notte di Veronique" is a mediocre and pretty boring cross of Gothic melodrama and a little bit of horror.It surely offers some spooky Bavaesque atmosphere,unfortunately the plot moves at snail's pace.The direction is uninspired too.Still the film is extremely rare,so if you have a chance to watch it just do it.A must-see for the lovers of obscure and forgotten.6 out of 10.
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Her ghost in fog
BandSAboutMovies11 October 2023
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Released in the UK as But You Were Dead, La lunga notte di Veronique is about Giovanni Bernardi (Alba Rigazzi) losing his parents in an automobile crash and then coming to stay with his grandfather Count Marco Anselmi (Walter Pozzi). There, his love for his girlfriend (Anna Maria Aveta) is in doubt once he becomes obsessed with Veronique (Cristina Gaioni), the spectral woman that he sees every night.
Director Gianni Vernuccio is barely mentioned by fans of Italian genre cinema. He made the 1964 proto giallo L'uomo che bruciò il suo cadavere, a peplum named Desert Warrior and another by the title Desert Desparados that stars Ruth Roman. He also wrote this with Enzo Ferrari, who IMDB lists as the same man that started the car company. There's no way that that can be true, right? Because this writer used the name Enzo Ferraris and also wrote movies that were all directed by Vernuccio.
This has a slow pace and wants to be in the gothic Italian tradition of Bava and Margheriti. It doesn't have their abilities behind the camera, but I still am a sucker for any time an Italian woman in a white dress dances through fog.
Director Gianni Vernuccio is barely mentioned by fans of Italian genre cinema. He made the 1964 proto giallo L'uomo che bruciò il suo cadavere, a peplum named Desert Warrior and another by the title Desert Desparados that stars Ruth Roman. He also wrote this with Enzo Ferrari, who IMDB lists as the same man that started the car company. There's no way that that can be true, right? Because this writer used the name Enzo Ferraris and also wrote movies that were all directed by Vernuccio.
This has a slow pace and wants to be in the gothic Italian tradition of Bava and Margheriti. It doesn't have their abilities behind the camera, but I still am a sucker for any time an Italian woman in a white dress dances through fog.
tepid supernatural chiller
goblinhairedguy27 March 2004
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Mild spoilers:
A university student goes home to his bucolic village for a family funeral, and meets a beautiful, ethereal young woman, who it seems died during the War and is now roaming the area as a wraith searching for her true love.
Although this was made during the peak of the Italian Gothic horror renaissance, it is a strictly modern, colour-photographed tale, with proto-mod styles and sports cars, as well as some nostalgic flashbacks to the War. It's told in a very flat, muted tv-series style, and is no more than a very mild supernatural romantic melodrama along the lines of Sandcastles. Not even worth a rental.
A university student goes home to his bucolic village for a family funeral, and meets a beautiful, ethereal young woman, who it seems died during the War and is now roaming the area as a wraith searching for her true love.
Although this was made during the peak of the Italian Gothic horror renaissance, it is a strictly modern, colour-photographed tale, with proto-mod styles and sports cars, as well as some nostalgic flashbacks to the War. It's told in a very flat, muted tv-series style, and is no more than a very mild supernatural romantic melodrama along the lines of Sandcastles. Not even worth a rental.
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