'Short Night of Glass Dolls' (1971)  - Aldo Lado.

The prodigiously gifted filmmaker, Aldo Lado has an enviably ecclectic CV, with Giallo genius Lado's tantalizingly sensual, doom-laden, hypnotically strange supernatural chiller, 'La Corta Notta Delle Bambole Di Vetro' aka 'Short Night of Glass Dolls' (1971) being a gorgeously baroque, devilishly disconcerting Giallo classic that I eagerly return to with greater frequency than many other higher profile Gialli of the period, since it excitingly exudes a lustrous, darkly exotic quality that you don't often see in contemporary genre cinema. 

Our deliciously doomed protagonists are the beauteous lovers Gregory (Jean Sorel) and Mira (Barbara Bach), their dark fates eerily entwined within the no less beguiling, stiflingly oppressive police state of communist-era Prague. An appropriately atmospheric backdrop wherein Lado's finely wrought, increasingly insidious Gothic delirium fascinatingly wends its wicked way to a memorably heart stopping conclusion! Seen today, 'La Corta Notta Delle Bambole Di Vetro' appears even more magical, the extraordinarily versatile director, Aldo Lado is on commanding form, his sinister, singularly serpentine, majestically macabre murder mystery remains an esoteric wonder, an unusually compelling, exquisitely conceived Giallo, seething with ornate occult malevolence, labyrinthine villainy, and the undeniably fearful suggestion that some truly monstrous malediction is at play is given dreadful verisimilitude by Ennio Morricone's sublimely evocative score!

'A lustrous, darkly exotic Giallo masterpiece with a heart stopping finale worthy of Poe himself!!!' - Weirdlingwolf.

 

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