Helga Liné

A 1964 Italian sword-and-sandal film directed by Domenico Paolella, starring Peter Lupus (credited as Rock Stevens) as Hercules. Hercules journeys to Babylon to rescue Asparia, the queen of the Hellenes, who has been enslaved along with her people by the three tyrannical siblings who rule the twin cities of Babylon and Nineveh. One of the tyrants, Taneal (Helga Liné), schemes to use Hercules for her own purposes, while King Phaleg of Assyria manipulates the hero into helping him seize Asparia. The film liberally uses stock footage from the biblical epic Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) for its climactic destruction of Babylon.

Action · Adventure · Fantasy

A 1965 Italian Gothic horror film directed by Mario Caiano, starring Barbara Steele in a dual role. When scientist Stephen Arrowsmith (Paul Müller) discovers his wife Muriel (Steele) having an affair with the gardener, he tortures and murders them both, removing their hearts and using their blood to rejuvenate his aged servant Solange (Helga Liné). Since Muriel's estate was willed to her mentally unstable stepsister Jenny (also Steele), Stephen marries Jenny and plots to have Solange drive her insane. But Jenny begins having nightmares — the sound of beating hearts and Muriel's voice urging her to murder Stephen — and when a doctor is brought in to treat her, the supernatural vengeance of the murdered lovers begins to unfold. The film features an early score by Ennio Morricone. Also known as The Faceless Monster.

Horror