Monster Of Venice (American title; The Embalmer)

 English Dolby Digital Mono

 (No other languages, or any subtitle options)

New Digital 35 mm Transfer

One of the last horror films from Italy shot in black-and-white, Monster Of Venice (American title The Embalmer) reveals itself as both a commentary on and a participant in that country's genre cinema shift from Gothic horrors to giallo shockers. At issue was the struggle between decaying Gothicism and encroaching modernism, the latter represented by the jazz and rock music that filters down to the subterranean monastic world of the Embalmer. The film owes much of its inspiration to Germany's popular Edgar Wallace "krimi" films, which were in full swing by 1964, the year The Monster Of Venice was helmed. Not surprising that a similarly titled film made that year, The Monster Of London City, was a German "krimi."

- Mirek Lipinski, ~~Latrania: Fantastique International

Details

Length 1 hrs. 17 mins.

Rating NR

Released: Sep 13 2005

Production Year 1965

UPC Code 014381232325

Studio  Retromedia

Packaging Keep

Number of Discs 1

Disc SS-SL

Features

Original Theatrical Trailer

Audio

English Dolby Digital Mono

Video

Widescreen 1.66:1 B&W