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Umberto Raho has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
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An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite him and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno
When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it unlocks an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance, and a dark seductress who surrenders the gravest of pleasures.
Dir. Antonio Margheriti · With Barbara Steele, Georges Rivière, Margrete Robsahm

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger

When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Dir. Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow · With Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti

Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey