FilmGothic Psychological Splatter & Gore

The Third Eye1966

Name: The Third Eye
Genre: Gothic, Psychological, Splatter & Gore
Released: 1966-06-11
Rating: 6.3

Directed by Mino Guerrini

6.3

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IMDb 6.2TMDB 5.8

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Year

1966

Runtime

98 min

The premise

Young nobleman Mino lives with his mother and Marta, the housekeeper, in an old, decaying castle. He is infantile and morbidly attached to the weird duo; his only hobby is taxidermy. Laura, Mino's fiancee, is met with jealousy and hatred by the two women, and decides to leave the castle; but Marta sabotages her car brakes and she is killed. Mino takes her body back to the castle. Meanwhile, his mother is violently arguing with Marta, who throws her down the stairs and repeatedly bashes her head on the floor. The distraught Mino descends into madness: he picks up a stripper at a nightclub and brings her home, then strangles her while having sex next to Laura's dead body. He does the same with a prostitute. Marta discovers these murders and offers to help dispose of bodies. A year later, Daniela (Laura's twin sister) arrives at the castle...

Horror Vault's take

In a crumbling Italian castle, a young nobleman's fragile psyche and morbid obsessions are pushed to a breaking point by the suffocating grip of two domineering women in his life. When tragedy strikes close to home, his already tenuous hold on sanity begins to shatter in deeply disturbing ways. Franco Nero stars in this atmospheric 1960s Italian Gothic, where dark secrets accumulate behind stone walls and no one who enters the castle is truly safe. The arrival of a woman with an uncanny connection to the past threatens to unravel everything hidden within.

Content: Sexual Violence, Strangulation Depicted During Sexual Activity, Depictions Of Corpses And Body Preservation, Domestic Violence, Murder, Disturbing Psychological Content