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Wed 7 May 2025
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Called “the best Italian horror film” by Cult Movies author Danny Peary, director-writer-cinematographer Bava’s adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s story merges horror and fable. Its eye-popping visuals and prowling camera suggest the haunting power of delicate nightmare pocked with moments of rarely surpassed beauty and horror.
Steele’s breakthrough double role as the virginal Katia and the vampiric witch Princess Asa, whose body is marked by the stigmata of unholy penetration, questions the two options traditionally imposed on women in Western religious imagery and remains her most iconic performance.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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