# The Whip and the Body (1963)

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**Original title**: *La frusta e il corpo*
**Runtime**: 87 min
**Genres**: Drama, Horror
**Directed by**: Mario Bava
**Written by**: Ernesto Gastaldi, Ugo Guerra, Luciano Martino
**Starring**: Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall, Ida Galli, Harriet Medin, Gustavo De Nardo

> *Evil horror!!!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Baltic coast. Autumn wind. A riding crop against stone. 

Kurt arrives to claim his ancestral estate, despite old sins with his brother’s widow Nevenka. Soon, a spectral presence stalks the castle halls, reviving old torments.

Bava at his most perverse.

**Mood tags**: dread, neon-soaked, paranoid

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