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The Whip and the Body [DVD] [1965] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Daliah Lavi
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  • Actors: Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall, Ida Galli, Harriet Medin
  • Directors: Mario Bava
  • Format: Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Vci Video
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Oct 2000
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004Z1G1
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 62,016 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Whipping the body, 3 Feb 2007
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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One of Christopher Lee's darker films -- and Mario Bava's more gothic ones -- is "The Whip and the Body," a sort of ghostly-mystery with a perverse twist. It suffers from a slack midsection, but it's still loaded with wonderful direction and tons of atmosphere.

Kurt (Christopher Lee) has just returned after years in disgraced exile, and immediately grates on his sickly father and mild brother Christian (Tony Kendall). Also it turns out that Kurt's ex-girlfriend Nevenka (Daliah Lavi) has married Kurt, but she can't deny her feelings after a Kurt whips and seduces her.

Then Kurt is found dead. Everyone -- from Christian to the servants -- has a reason to want Kurt dead, but no one knows who did it. And Nevenka is acting strangely, as she is visited and whipped by Kurt when no one is around. Is she the victim of a ghost, or something far more terrible?

Mario Bava knew how to make creepy gothic movies (a la "Kill Baby Kill"), but he gives it a perverse twist here. "Thhe Whip and the Body" is gleefully split between ghost story, murder mystery, and dark erotic story of S&M and personal obsession. This is not cheerful, family-oriented fare.

As with his other gothic movies, this one is set in a creepy, crumbling estate, full of dark corners, grimy walls, torches and weird coloured lights. It does suffer from an uninspired middle section, between Kurt's death and the coffin's unearthing, which is mostly Nevenka wandering around hallucinatng.

And the direction is very solid -- disturbed, stormy, slightly off-kilter, and peppered with perversely erotic love scenes. The sight of Lee whipping the clothes off a moaning Lavi borders on campy, but it just stays on this side, and remains darkly intense right to the creepy finale.

Lee seems to relish his juicy, devilish role as a whip-wielding nasty who doesn't care that he drove a girl to suicide. Even dead, he's the most powerful presence in here. And Lavi does a solid enough job as his ex-lover, who can't cope with her obsessive, unhealthy adoration for him and thinks that he's risen from the grave to torment her.

"The Whip and the Body" lives up to its name, taking the sexual edge of gothic horror and running with it. Not Bava's best, but an excellent movie nonetheless
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5.0 out of 5 stars THE WHIP AND THE BODY, 10 Mar 2009
By James Morton "giallo fan" (uk) - See all my reviews
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ANOTHER EXCELLENT DVD FOR MY MARIO BAVA COLLECTION. THE WHIP AND THE BODY IS GOTHIC, VIOLENT AND ATMOSPHERIC AND A VERY GOOD FILM OVERALL.
ONE OF BAVA'S BEST GOTHIC FILMS.
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