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Dead Fright1989 - La Gabbia, a..k.a.

  • Dead Fright
  • Collector's Item
  • La Juala
  • The Trap 
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (Divina Creatura); Ettore Spagnuolo (producer); writers: Alberto Silvestri, Ennio Morricone, Francesco Barilli and horror film legend Lucio Fulci (The Gates of Hell; Zombie); soundtrack by Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad, The Ugly; The Untouchables); Director of Photography: Hans Burmann and Juan Amoros; with Tony Musante (HBO's OZ; The Bird with the Crystal Plumag; with Tony Musante (HBO's OZ; The Bird with the Crysal Plumage), Florinda Bolkan,  Manuel Tienda, Blanca Marsillach, Cristina Marsillach, Laura Troschel, Jose Maria Bastus, Mercedes Duval, Florinda Bolkan and Achille Brunini [horror/suspense, thriller]. 

An international co-production with dialogue in both Italian and English, this erotic thriller is about Michael Parker (Musante), a successful American businessman living in Italy with his girlfriend. When she leaves on vacation, Michael is soon involved in a torrid, passionate affair with Marie (Antonelli), a woman with whom he once enjoyed a one-night stand. This time, however, Marie is not about to let Michael off the romantic hook so easily, exacting horrific revenge on her lover. Further complicating Michael's love life is Jacqueline, Marie's nubile preteen daughter, whose attraction for Michael pits mother and daughter against each other in an incestuous love triangle. 

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The story revolves around a chance meeting between former lovers of 16 years earlier. Their inadvertent rendezvous ignites a fury of fond memories and temporarily rekindles the passion, but then leads to dangerously obsessive behavior which turns into a sexual nightmare for Michael (Musante). The ex-lover has become insane and sets out to enslave him, forcing him to become the object of her lust.

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A terrifying, macabre, and erotically charged thriller written by horror film legend Lucio Fulci (The Gates of Hell; Zombie). The soundtrack is by world renowned film composer Ennio Morricone of The Good The Bad The Ugly; The Untouchables)

Michael (Musante), a father and happily married man about to descend into a nightmarish reality from which there can be no escape. A chance encounter with Marie (Antonelli), an ex-lover from fifteen years ago, leads to a lustful one-night-stand, but Michael suddenly discovers that she is obsessed with him - beyond the point of sanity. Wide-eyed with madness, Marie takes Michael hostage, chaining him to a bed using physical and psychological torture in a bizarre attempt to win back his love. Terror-stricken and fearing for his life, Michael's only hope for survival lies in seducing Marie's beautiful daughter Jacqueline (Bolkan). Yet she has her own frightening plans for  Michael...caught in a web between two deadly females." 

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Incontra in casa dell'amante in carica una ex amante e con lei e la figlia sedicenne intreccia pericolosa sarabanda d'amore. Squallida e squilibrata opera destinata a erotomani raffinati che, pero', resteranno delusi. Bella biancheria, amplessi trasgressivi sado-maso, musica "sensuale" di Ennio Morricone.

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