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Original title: Histoires extraordinaires
Release Date
Jun 10, 1968 (France)Aug 14, 1968 (Italy)
Running Time
2 hours, 1 minute
Country France, Italy
Studio Cocinor
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Other Titles
• Histoires extraordinaires
• Tre Passi nel Delirio
• Außergewöhnliche Geschichten (1968)
• Spirits of the Dead
• Tales of Mystery
• Tales of Mystery and Imagination
• Trois histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Poe
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Genre: Mystery, Horror, Suspense, Supernatural, Surreal, Fantasy, On The Road, Military, Love, Revenge, Ghosts, Occult, Animals
Tagline: Edgar Allen Poe's ultimate orgy!
Plot: With SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, three titans of European cinema--Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, and Federico Fellini--team up for a stylish film based on the works of macabre author Edgar Allan Poe. Vadim directs the first segment, METZENGERSTEIN, with Jane Fonda portraying the spoiled, vicious Frederique. When she finally meets her neighbor, Baron Wilhelm (played by her brother Peter), her advances toward him are met with rejection. Humiliated, she takes matters into her own hands, leading her into a downward spiral with a tragic ending. Malle takes the middle slot with WILLIAM WILSON, featuring Alain Delon as the troubled hero, a man who has been haunted since childhood by a man with his exact name. After torturing a gorgeous woman (Brigitte Bardot), a final duel brings William’s ghosts home once and for all. Last but not least is Fellini's segment, a story set in the 1970s entitled TOBY DAMMIT, which stars Terence Stamp as a spacey English actor who travels to Rome in order to play Christ in a New Testament Western. When he gets the keys to a brand-new Ferrari, he embarks on a dangerous drive that just might cost him his life. SPIRITS OF THE DEAD is a real gem for those who enjoy the surreal and grotesque.
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