“Prepare yourself for the Shock of a Lifetime! Once she kept a lover on the side. But that's nothing compared to what she's keeping in the freezer.”
A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
Bernice Stegers
Jane Baker
Stanko Molnar
Robert Duval
Veronica Zinny
Lucy Baker
Roberto Posse
Fred Kellerman
Ferdinando Orlandi
Mr. Wells
Fernando Pannullo
Leslie Baker
Elisa Kadigia Bove
Mrs. Duval
Macabre is a horror film released in 1980 exploring themes of necrophilia, perversion, murder, disembodied head, dead child, refrigerator. Directed by Lamberto Bava, it stars Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny. A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
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