Nude For Satan (1974)

Director
Paolo Solvay

Main cast
Rita Calderoni; Renato Lupi; Iolanda Mascitti; Luigi Antonio Guerra; James Harris

Genres
Horror, Foreign

Description
Italian Gothic horror that tells the tale of a man who stops at a remote castle hoping to get medical help for an injured woman, only to find the inhabitants mirror the darker sides of the woman and himself.


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