The Third Eye | |
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Directed by | Mino Guerrini |
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Story by | Ermanno Donati[1] |
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Cinematography | Alessandro D'Eva[1] |
Edited by | Ornella Micheli[1] |
Music by | Francesco De Masi[2] |
Distributed by | Medusa |
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Running time | 90 minutes[1] |
Country | Italy[1] |
Box office | ₤72 million |
The Third Eye (Italian: Il terzo occhio) is a 1966 Italian horror film. It was directed by Mino Guerrini and stars Franco Nero, Gioia Pascal, and Erika Blanc. A young count, who lives with his domineering, jealous mother, begins on a downward spiral into madness after his fiancée dies in a car accident. This was one of Franco Nero's earliest films, before he achieved stardom in the spaghetti western genre.[3] Erika Blanc plays a dual role in the film, portraying both the Count's dead fiancée Laura, as well as Laura's twin sister Daniela.[3]
Joe D'Amato remade the film as 1979's Beyond the Darkness.