Amateur movie with Big budget

Am I Missing Something?

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

There are three things to admire about this film. The cinematography by Gianlorenzo Battaglia which makes fine use of widescreen and colour. The music score by the prolific Francesco De Masi, going from sweeping charm to suspenseful. And the luminous and physical performance by Christina Nagy as Joanna.Apart from that it is a standard story of trying to murder someone by scaring them to death. The rest of the cast are adequate, the kills moderate and the twists foreseeable the proverbial mile away. The penultimate scene goes on and on ridiculously and the last scene is annoyingly ambiguous. Some of the credits are Anglicised so the director Alberto De Martino becomes Martin Herbert, the editor Vincenzo Tomassi becomes Vincent P. Thomas and producer Fabrizio De Angelis becomes David Colby. Francesco De Masi stays Francesco De Masi. Perhaps it was in his contract.

A slick, atmospheric Italian thriller involving a wealthy young woman who is unable to walk and has some sort of heart condition. The doctor tells her she can die having sex. She trains in wheelchair sports and soon gets married to the coach. The coach has a hidden agenda and really just wants all her money to share with his girlfriend. The wife is also giving half of her fortune to the church which the husband (coach) does not like one bit. He plans to kill her with lots of sex but things don't go as planned.I wouldn't really call this an Giallo because the killer is revealed after 20 minutes leaving no real mystery. It is in Italian though. This is the same director that did The Antichrist (1974). This one is not as graphic and no goats, but there are some violent deaths. The score was awesome as well but I thought sometimes it was too loud.Even after you know who the murderer is tension is still created throughout the whole thing. The ending was cool too as you keep thinking that's it... then boom! It was the equivalent of 2 boy Jasons jumping out of the water.

Paralyzed after being attacked as a child by a priest, Joanna (Christina Nagy) finds love in her handsome fencing instructor Craig (David Warbeck). The two quickly marry and all seems bliss until Joanna starts having terrible visions about this lecherous priest. Is she really crazy or is someone trying to drive her insane? Warbeck and director Alberto De Martino re-teamed for this murder mystery following the dreadful Miami HORROR of the same year. With some location work done in Boston and New York City, this is a much better film for De Martino to finish his career with, but not by much. First, the mystery is overly simple. Here is a tip for future filmmakers - if one of your actors has a distinctive chin, don't film only that part of them when you are trying to disguise who the killer is! Second, the film is filled with dimwit moments like our lead finally getting to use the phone while being attacked and she calls her doctor. He doesn't answer so she - you guessed it - tries him again! Still, the film features a nice score, a few evocative dream sequences and a great performance from the criminally underrated Warbeck. Plus, it goes by quickly, which is more than I can say for the painful Miami HORROR.

Due to its predictable, second-rate title, (the one it was distributed under in Italy, at least) I didn't expect much from this movie. Thought it'd be another cheap flick about a haunted house ("LA CASA MALEDETTA" means "The cursed house"). Well, I had to change my mind just after the very first brilliant scene! The constant presence of priests and the creepy atmospheres, reminded me a bit of The Exorcist and some of its decent Italian rip-offs, but this was going to be something completely different... This is more like Hitchcock meets Italian thriller! Very well written and directed, good actors, interesting plot... OK, I've tried not to spoil the viewing of "7 Hyden Park" for you, which I'd highly recommend to everyone. P.S. Am I wrong, or when Joanna crawls or tries hard to stand (she's paralyzed from the waist down) her feet and legs move a little too much? (... And I'm not talking of the "bad dream" sequence.)