Beauty after beauty dragged to a sunken crypt… petrified play-captives of The Embalmer.
Film Synopsis
The Embalmer (1965) follows a young Venetian journalist who becomes convinced that the mysterious disappearances of several teenage girls are the work of a concealed killer stalking the canals of his city. As police dismiss his theories and authorities resist investigation, he and an ally push deeper into the labyrinthine streets and waterways, where dread and suspicion intensify with each new clue. This Italian horror thriller blends noir‑tinged mystery and macabre menace in a grim study of obsession, urban dread, and unseen predation.
Critical Perspective
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The Monster of Venice is easily one of the least memorable gialli of the period. The story seems to have been patterned on the Vincent Price hit House of Wax (1953), itself a remake of an earlier film titled Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), but there is precious little here in the way of invention or originality. The thriller aspects are negligible, the film moves at a glacial pace and there is far too much padding as the director focuses on the obvious beauty of the Venetian locale.
Troy Howarth, So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films, Volume 1, 1963-1973 (Midnight Marquee Press, 2015)
The Embalmer DVD editions
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| Disc Extras | Retromedia DVD-0/US 2016 | Retromedia DVD-0/US/OOP 2005 |
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| Theatrical Trailer | ||
| Bonus Film: The Red Headed Corpse |
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| Extras | Theatrical Trailer Retromedia DVD |
| Bonus Film: The Red Headed Corpse Retromedia DVD |