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Tragic Ceremony

1972 1h 22m Drama Horror List
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Jane and her friends run out of gas and take refuge in a large manor. She hears a strange noise and finds the owners performing a black Mass -- and she is the sacrifice.

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Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Tragic Ceremony isn't scary enough to induce terror, unintentionally funny enough for camp, or bizarre enough for mad surrealism. Rated: 1.5/4 Feb 4, 2008 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Film Threat Quite possibly one of the most tedious and nonsensical pieces of Italian cinema that I've ever seen. And yet I found that I just had to see it through to the end... Rated: 2/5 Mar 5, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member A bad example of 70's Italian horror. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Camille Keaton and Lucianna Paluzzi in the same movie? The world rejoices! Too bad it takes its sweet time to get going, cause the first half hour's a tough slough to get through (I've had this movie from Netflix for like five months now). Once it does though, some spooky mystery, surprising deaths and downright shocking gore (there's a reason they kept cutting in that head getting cleaved in two) abounds! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Basically one star for the little bit of gore and one for the laughs..... but otherwise, Fuck this has got to be the most incoherent movie ever.... the whole plot and editing is a mess!... ha Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Something of a meandering tale of a group of hippies who seek refuge from a storm in the wrong villa, where they find themselves amidst a group of Satanists, then they later find themselves blamed for the Satanic murders. I have to say that I wasn't sure what to expect from this one and the film never really felt that it built any particular momentum, which is a shame, as Camille Keaton is easy on the eyes, so one would think they could find a better way to use her. Rental? Maybe? Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member This kind of slow moving, atmosphere based Italian horror worked at lot better when shot in black and white in the sixties. There's something about the grainy color stock used in the early seventies that detracts from gothic horror. The sword through the face thing is cool, I guess. Camille Keaton is stunning as usual, and the DVD has an interview with her that shows she hasn't lost much of her looks. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member It doesn't make much sense but there's something disturbing about this film. Maybe Camille Keaton's overdramatic performance! I love it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Jane and her friends run out of gas and take refuge in a large manor. She hears a strange noise and finds the owners performing a black Mass -- and she is the sacrifice.
Director
Robert Davidson
Producer
José Gutiérrez Maesso
Screenwriter
Nicholas Moore, José Gutiérrez Maesso, Leonardo Martín
Production Co
Pia Productions
Genre
Drama, Horror
Original Language
Italian
Runtime
1h 22m