The opening of this film treats us to Klaus Kinski in twice his usual state of delirium – thrashing about in a shadowy, cobweb-laden crypt. He’s playing Edgar Allan Poe, and he looks the very embodiment of an absinthe-soaked poete maudit. His role, alas, turns out to be little more than a glorified cameo! Still, he sets the tone admirably for the next 90 minutes of flickering candelabra, ethereal vampire beauties and white muslin curtains billowing softly by moonlight.<\/p>\n
It would be easy to dismiss this movie as a compendium of Gothic horror cliches. Easy but unfair, I feel. Like any other highly stylised art form (Romantic ballet, bel canto opera…) a Gothic tale rests on a set of unreal and perhaps arbitrary conventions. Much of a fan’s pleasure depends on how faithfully, how stylishly, these conventions are played out. In truest Gothic horror tradition, Nella Stretta Morsa del Ragno does very little that’s new – but does it in grand style!<\/p>\n
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