In the Folds of the Flesh1970
Directed by Sergio Bergonzelli
The premise
Police are in hot pursuit of a criminal who is evading capture on a speeding motorbike. He takes refuge in an overgrown castle’s grounds and sees a pale woman burying a corpse in a shallow grave. Thirteen years later, after being recaptured and serving his sentence, the man returns to the castle, intent on blackmail — and maybe a few other things.
Horror Vault's take
A fugitive stumbles upon a grim secret at a crumbling castle estate, only to return over a decade later with blackmail on his mind — and far more than he bargained for. This Italian Gothic thriller weaves a labyrinthine web of buried pasts and fractured identities around an isolated, decaying household. Lurid, baroque, and deeply strange, it leans hard into the grand tradition of Euro-horror excess. What waits inside those walls defies easy explanation and refuses to let go.
Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Disturbing Imagery, Mature Themes
Cast
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Lucille
Pier Angeli
Falesse / Ester Gardere
Fernando Sancho
Pascal Gorriot
Alfredo Mayo
Police inspector
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Colin
María Rosa Sclauzero
Elizabeth
Víctor Barrera
Michel Bordelin
Giancarlo Sisti
André
Gaetano Imbró
Luciano Catenacci
Antoine
Bruno Ciangola
Augusta Di Vincenzi
Concentration camp guard [flashback] (uncredited)
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