The Monster of the Opera (1964)

The Monster of the Opera (1964). 1h 24m

“Renato Polselliu0026#39;s The Monster of the Opera is about a group of young dancers who rehearse in an old theatre unaware that it is home to a vampire. But mostly it is about knickers.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePolselliu0026#39;s story makes zero sense, the director focusing far more on the attractive young female dancers in their underwear than on the narrative. The girls run around in their knickers, dance in their knickers, get fruity with each other in their knickers (the film being one of the earliest horrors to feature lesbianism), and, in the totally absurd finalé, go wild in their knickers, their crazy gyrating keeping the vampire at bay (makes a change from a holy cross and garlic, I suppose).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut as much as I enjoy seeing pretty ladies cavorting in their underwear, the film is actually very tedious, while the performersu0026#39; inexplicable histrionics soon get on the nerves. Polselli also directed The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960), which also featured a vampire, pretty dancers and underwear – I guess that film was a success for him, hence the repetition.”