'The Long Hair of Death' (1964) - Antonio Margheriti.

Even within these blackened catacombs the darkest shadows are those that shroud the very worst horrors of a distempered mind! Antonio Margheriti's creepily crepuscular, 'I Lunghi Capelli Della Morte' aka 'The Long Hair of Death' (1964) remains a doomily atmospheric, crypt-creeping, eerily cob-webbed, ghoulishly Gothic, stylishly monochromatic marrow-curdler par excellence, featuring a luridly lustrous performance from the most mesmerizing of all female fright icons, Barbara Steele; her bewitching raven tresses, perhaps, the unheralded inspiration of J-Horror's most ubiquitous visual tropes!

There is no earthly, or unearthly reason why this sinister, insidiously fascinating, shudder-slathered, shadow-slaked, castle-creepy 60s classic of supernatural terror shouldn't be mentioned in the very same glacially bated breath as maestro Mario Bava's marvellously menacing 'Mask of Satan', Riccardo Freda's equally macabre 'The Horrible Dr. Hichcock' (1962), and Giorgio Feroni's morbid shocker, 'The Mill of Stone Women' (1960). 'Irresistibly sweet scented, sleek and sinuous, macabre maestro Margheriti's masterful supernatural chiller, 'The Long Hair of Death' takes us wickedly wanton, sin-seeking necromantics on a hair-raisingly sinister Gothic excursion far beyond the lunatic fringe of cinematic fright!'

 

'The delicious 88 Films reverse sleeve in full effect, dude'

'The even more delicious Barbara Steele with her somewhat less beguiling chum!'

'Fabulously colourful 'Something Weird' Video Art'