A Black Ribbon for Deborah
Directed byMarcello Andrei
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Piero Regnoli
  • Marcello Andrei
  • Alvaro Fabrizio
  • Giuseppe Pulieri[1]
Starring
CinematographyClaudio Racca[1]
Edited byGianni Oppedisano[1]
Music byAlbert Verrecchia[1]
Production
company
Paola Film s.r.l.[2]
Distributed byAlpherat
Release date
  • 26 September 1974 (1974-09-26) (Italy)
Running time
108 minutes[2]
CountryItaly[2]
Box office₤118.676 million

A Black Ribbon for Deborah (Italian: Un fiocco nero per Deborah) is a 1974 Italian horror film directed by Marcello Andrei.

Cast

Production

Director Marcello Andrei and his co-writers originally conceived the film with an original idea of a dying woman passing the child she is bearing to another person.[3] Giuseppe Pulieri stated that the script he worked one was ruined by a producers attempt to exploit the film as part of the "demonic possession" cycle of films.[3] Pulieri stated that "The script stayed ten years in the drawer, I even pestered Raymond Stross into making it, to no avail ... they altered the story, the in all the usual bullshit: the witches, the sorcerer, the special effects..."[3]

The film began shooting on May 13, 1974.[3]

Release

A Black Ribbon for Deborah was distributed theatrically in Italy by Alpherat on 26 September 1974.[2] The film grossed a total of 118,676,000 Italian lire domestically.[2] Italian film historian Roberto Curti described the film as passing "almost unnoticed on its theatrical release".[3]

The film was first released on home video in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.[3] It was released in the United Kingdom as The Torment.[2]

Reception

AllMovie defines the film a "low-wattage horror piece".[4]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Curti 2017, p. 119.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Curti 2017, p. 120.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Curti 2017, p. 121.
  4. ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Deborah (1974)". AllMovie. Retrieved 24 June 2012.

References

  • Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476629605.
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