Police are in hot pursuit of a criminal who is evading capture on a speeding motorbike. He takes refuge in an overgrown castle’s grounds and sees a pale woman burying a corpse in a shallow grave. Thirteen years later, after being recaptured and serving his sentence, the man returns to the castle, intent on blackmail — and maybe a few other things.
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Lucille
Pier Angeli
Falesse / Ester Gardere
Fernando Sancho
Pascal Gorriot
Alfredo Mayo
Police inspector
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Colin
María Rosa Sclauzero
Elizabeth
Víctor Barrera
Michel Bordelin
Giancarlo Sisti
André
Gaetano Imbró
Luciano Catenacci
Antoine
In the Folds of the Flesh is a drama, horror, thriller film released in 1970. Directed by Sergio Bergonzelli, it stars Eleonora Rossi Drago, Pier Angeli, Fernando Sancho. Police are in hot pursuit of a criminal who is evading capture on a speeding motorbike. He takes refuge in an overgrown castle’s grounds and sees a pale woman burying a corpse in a shallow grave. Thirteen years later, after being recaptured and serving his sentence, the man returns to the castle, intent on blackmail — and maybe a few other things.
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