Spirits of the Dead (1969)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:14
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: With SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, three titans of European cinema--Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, and Federico Fellini--team up for a stylish film based on the works of macabre author Edgar Allan Poe. Vadim... [More]
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda
Director: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim
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Reviews for Spirits of the Dead
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None of the three European director's stories catches the macabre flavor of Poe. Full Review |
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 4/5 |
Intriguing and mostly successful. Full Review |
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3/4 |
If the other two stories had also been done by Fellini, the whole offering might have been much better. Full Review |
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Episode 3, however -- this is the one people talk about when they talk about Spirits of the Dead. Federico Fellini's 'Toby Dammit' stars Terence Stamp in a piece that's a Fellini film festival in miniature. Full Review |
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Only Fellini (Toby Dammit) really manages to make much of his source. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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3/5 |
[Toby Dammit] is marvelous: a short movie but a major one. The Vadim is as overdecorated and shrill as a drag ball, but still quite fun, and the Malle, based on one of Poe's best stories, is simply tedious. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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3/5 |
Horrific? Not really. But interesting to watch.
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3/5 |
See it for Fellini's hilarious "Toby Dammit" sequence. (Elsewhere Jane and Peter Fonda play lovers...)
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3/5 |
The Fellini part is brilliant. The rest is not.
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It offers pleasures above and beyond its status as a relic of a groovier and exponentially more swinging era. Full Review |
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67/100 |
While Spirits of the Dead doesn’t do much justice to Poe’s source material, fans of bizarre French cinema should have a pretty good time. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
As far as psychological horror goes, the films work well, and that they realize Poe’s stories were mainly internalized distortions of the world works to their advantage, even as they approach the material in vastly different ways. Full Review |
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3/4 |
more of an interesting exercise in literary adaptation than a fully satisfying work of art Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Not what I would have expected... but hey, we are defined by our contradictions, no? Full Review |
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