Spirits of the Dead

(1968)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 188 votes

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Drama

Year: 1968

Runtime: 122 мин

Country: France, Italy

Director: Федерико Феллини, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim

Cast: Брижит Бардо, Ален Делон, Джейн Фонда, Теренс Стэмп, Питер Фонда, James Robertson Justice, Salvo Randone, Françoise Prévost, Katia Christine, Philippe Lemaire

Plot

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled, drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" features a medieval countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion - who, it turns out, is really her dead lover. "William Wilson" tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.