VALUTAZIONE IMDb
4,1/10
339
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA group of dropouts find an old man (Sir Christopher Lee) in a castle. The old man subsequently turns into the Devil and seizes them.A group of dropouts find an old man (Sir Christopher Lee) in a castle. The old man subsequently turns into the Devil and seizes them.A group of dropouts find an old man (Sir Christopher Lee) in a castle. The old man subsequently turns into the Devil and seizes them.
Christopher Lee
- Mephistoles
- (as Cristopher Lee)
Bella Cortez
- Frie
- (as Alice Paneque)
Ulderico Sciaretta
- Padre Guardiano
- (as Ulderico Sciarretta)
Lilli Parker
- Jenny
- (as Vittori Centroni)
Anita Cacciolati
- Maga
- (as Anita Dreyver)
Mario Zakarti
- Gianni
- (as Mario Zacarti)
Piero Vida
- Padre Peo Remigio
- (as Pietro Vidali)
Sonia Scotti
- Sonia - Singer
- (as Sonia)
Maria Bandiera
- Ragazza
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizFilmed as a gothic movie under the title of "Katarsis" in 1963. Its production company, I Films della Mangusta, went bankrupt shortly after filming. The movie, which was about 90 minutes long, was bought by Eco Film, which cut out a half-hour and added newly shot scenes involving gangsters, a monk and a cabaret dancer. The finished product was 78 minutes long, retitled "Challenge the Devil" and released in 1965.
- ConnessioniFeatured in The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024)
- Colonne sonoreTi Hanno Visto
Performed by Sonia
Published by Phonogram S.P.A.
Recensione in evidenza
This is definitely Christopher Lee's most obscure European genre effort and, in retrospect, one of the weakest from any phase in his prolific career – in fact, I would even venture to name it the worst entry in the Gothic Horror cycle emanating from Italy! Incidentally, the copy I watched was culled from a recent late-night screening on Italian TV – its first ever broadcast (where the on-screen title was the alternate one SFIDA AL DIAVOLO) which, given the dire results, is not surprising! Truth be told, the genre icon's presence (or its three stages, since he goes from the reclusive pathetic owner of a decaying mansion – his fair hair unintentionally evoking Shakespeare's Hamlet, in whose celebrated 1948 film version Lee had actually appeared in a bit-part! – to a dark Mephistophelean figure and, finally, revealed to be the previously imperceptible victim of a mugging) within the film hardly amounts to 10 minutes of its 76-minute running-time!
The film starts off as a lame chase thriller with pious undertones, is stopped dead in its tracks by a slew of pointless musical numbers, then turns into a hedonistic drama on the lines of (but a long way after) THESE ARE THE DAMNED (1963) – with the best-known member of the younger cast, Giorgio Ardisson, actually the one to ham it up most relentlessly! – before settling into some typical haunted-house antics (with some cob-webbed interiors and scuttling creatures notching up a few points for Cocteau-like atmosphere). The mix could have actually proved quite interesting but, since director Veggezzi (whose name was unfamiliar to me – and it did not take long to discover why) displayed remarkable incompetence throughout, the end result is almost on a par with the notorious work of Ed Wood!
The film starts off as a lame chase thriller with pious undertones, is stopped dead in its tracks by a slew of pointless musical numbers, then turns into a hedonistic drama on the lines of (but a long way after) THESE ARE THE DAMNED (1963) – with the best-known member of the younger cast, Giorgio Ardisson, actually the one to ham it up most relentlessly! – before settling into some typical haunted-house antics (with some cob-webbed interiors and scuttling creatures notching up a few points for Cocteau-like atmosphere). The mix could have actually proved quite interesting but, since director Veggezzi (whose name was unfamiliar to me – and it did not take long to discover why) displayed remarkable incompetence throughout, the end result is almost on a par with the notorious work of Ed Wood!
- Bunuel1976
- 4 gen 2011
- Permalink
I più visti
Accedi per valutare e creare un elenco di titoli salvati per ottenere consigli personalizzati
- How long is Challenge the Devil?Powered by Alexa
Dettagli
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 19 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.66 : 1
Contribuisci a questa pagina
Suggerisci una modifica o aggiungi i contenuti mancanti
Divario superiore
By what name was Sfida al diavolo (1963) officially released in India in English?
Rispondi