Since having spent most of the year watching the Giallo films made in Italy,I felt that this movie would give me a chance to have a look at a Giallo from another part of the world.
The plot:
Finishing all of their chores for the day,a group of motorist struggle to get back home,when a thick fog completely covers the main roads to the city.Slowly realising that they have no chance at all to get through the fog,each of the drivers are "guided" by a mysterious man at the side of a country road,who advises them to spend the night at a near by mansion,until the fog has cleared.
Getting close to the mansion,each of them discovers,that to reach the mansion they must walk through a grave yard.Walking through the yard quickly,each of the motorist are horrified to find an old woman,and a zombie car driver chasing after them!
Arriving to the mansion,they each discover,that they are in fact,not the only motorist stranded for the night.As the group attempts to settle in for the night,the owner of the mansion suddenly appears.Making each of them very happy,after saying that she is more than happy for all of them to stay the night,the woman does not help to calm nerves,when she tells all of them,the she suspects that the man and woman that they each saw at the grave yard,were actually her mum,and her mothers driver,who both died in a terrible crash near the cemetery decades ago!.With nerves now massively shaken,each of them starts heading to a bed.Suddenly,one of them is heard screaming.
Rushing to find out whats happened,the group find that one of them has disappeared,which causes them to all suspect that the mother and her driver may have left the grave yard,and are now hiding in the mansion.
View on the film:
Whilst this film seems to mostly get called a Gothic Giallo,I have to say,that since viewing the movie,I found it to be a very entertaining Goth mystery film,with directors Francisco Lara Polop and Pedro Lazaga delivering solid directing,that lacks the stylised directing of the Giallo genre,but makes up for it,by having some good,atmospheric foggy moments.
For the screenplay, writers Luis G. De Blain and Antonio Troiso, (who both wrote the screenplay for Umberto Lenzi's Giallo:Knife Of Ice) show a strong influence of Agatha Christie,with the closed off mansion being a great location for the films building mystery to be realised.As the film nears its conclusion,Blain and Troiso bring out the movies brilliant trump card,with the ending offering a terrific Christie-style twist,that gets the Gothic side of the film to fade out and,be replaced by a great downbeat mystery note,which allows the film to end on a high note.
The plot:
Finishing all of their chores for the day,a group of motorist struggle to get back home,when a thick fog completely covers the main roads to the city.Slowly realising that they have no chance at all to get through the fog,each of the drivers are "guided" by a mysterious man at the side of a country road,who advises them to spend the night at a near by mansion,until the fog has cleared.
Getting close to the mansion,each of them discovers,that to reach the mansion they must walk through a grave yard.Walking through the yard quickly,each of the motorist are horrified to find an old woman,and a zombie car driver chasing after them!
Arriving to the mansion,they each discover,that they are in fact,not the only motorist stranded for the night.As the group attempts to settle in for the night,the owner of the mansion suddenly appears.Making each of them very happy,after saying that she is more than happy for all of them to stay the night,the woman does not help to calm nerves,when she tells all of them,the she suspects that the man and woman that they each saw at the grave yard,were actually her mum,and her mothers driver,who both died in a terrible crash near the cemetery decades ago!.With nerves now massively shaken,each of them starts heading to a bed.Suddenly,one of them is heard screaming.
Rushing to find out whats happened,the group find that one of them has disappeared,which causes them to all suspect that the mother and her driver may have left the grave yard,and are now hiding in the mansion.
View on the film:
Whilst this film seems to mostly get called a Gothic Giallo,I have to say,that since viewing the movie,I found it to be a very entertaining Goth mystery film,with directors Francisco Lara Polop and Pedro Lazaga delivering solid directing,that lacks the stylised directing of the Giallo genre,but makes up for it,by having some good,atmospheric foggy moments.
For the screenplay, writers Luis G. De Blain and Antonio Troiso, (who both wrote the screenplay for Umberto Lenzi's Giallo:Knife Of Ice) show a strong influence of Agatha Christie,with the closed off mansion being a great location for the films building mystery to be realised.As the film nears its conclusion,Blain and Troiso bring out the movies brilliant trump card,with the ending offering a terrific Christie-style twist,that gets the Gothic side of the film to fade out and,be replaced by a great downbeat mystery note,which allows the film to end on a high note.