2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Tockinit not horrible nor great

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

danielmartinx The Christine character is the most repulsive and loathsome beast I've seen in a long while in a film. She is entitled, narcissistic, rude, icy, smug, and her every word to anyone is replete with insults and demeaning little flourishes. To her blind brother she says "Now you're deaf as well as blind" when he forgets something, and when he has a vision and takes a few steps she scolds him mercilessly "Why are you always wandering off? You know you only get lost." She has not a single kind word for him. He would be better off ditching her and finding a human being to take care of him! Sadly, that's not going to happen, not in this film. I like the Venetian scenery, and the hair and clothes are what you want from a 70s giallo/horror mishmash. I like this film, and I like it all the more for how much I hate Christine.

Witchfinder General 666 Directed by Ugo Liberatore (who co-scripted Giorgio Ferroni's fantastic 1960 Gothic Horror film "Il Mulino Delle Donne Di Pietro" aka "The Mill of the Stone Women"), "Nero Veneziano" of 1978 is an elegant, creepy and bizarre occult flick which is sometimes unfairly called a 'rip off' of American films like "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Omen". This only makes sense if any film that has to do with the Antichrist released after the aforementioned films is automatically a rip-off (in which case one would also have to argue that all American Slashers are rip-offs of Italian Gialli like Bava's "Bay of Blood"). "Nero Veneziano", in my opinion, is not a rip-off. Also, some people seem to regard this film as a Giallo, which astonishes me since it simply isn't at all: There is no murder series or murder mystery here, but occult and supernatural Horror - Which makes it anything but a Giallo. While it is a worthwhile and elegant film it isn't a masterpiece either, as whereas the visual style is wonderful and the film's bizarre nature is fascinating, the flick also isn't too coherent, and it occasionally becomes a little lengthy in-between. Still, it is a compelling experience which my fellow fans of Italian Horror should not miss."Nero Veneziano" is terrifically set in Venice, which contributes a lot to the film's visual beauty. Mark (Renato Cestiè), a boy who has been blind for the last three years, is tormented by occasional gruesome and infernal visions. When the orphaned boy and his older sister Christine (Rena Niehaus) also loose their grandmother in a tragic event, Mark's disturbing visions turn out to be more than bizarre nightmares...The film is visually beautiful and impressive, though the whole thing is bleak and the colors are kept very cold. Actually, the visual style somewhat reminded me of Pupi Avati's brilliant "La Casa Delle Finesetre Che Ridono" ("The House with the Laughing Windows"), though Avati's film is set in the countryside, and furthermore a masterpiece, which this film isn't in my opinion. Still the story is fascinating, though it has its holes. The film is rather slow-going, but includes a bunch of truly disturbing outbursts, such as Mark's violent visions. Leading actor Renato Cestiè, who was 15 when this film was made, is best known for playing child roles in older genre gems, such as Mario Bava's "Reazione a Catena" ("A Bay of Blood", 1971) and Sergio Martino's "I Corpi Presentano Tracce Di Violenzia Carnale" ("Torso", 1973). Rena Niehaus, who plays the female lead, might also be known to fans of Italian Exploitation/Cult cinema for starring in Epinardo Visconti's "La Orca" (1976) and the sequel "Oedipus Orca" (1977). Overall, this is a creepy and atmospheric occult horror film that is especially recommendable due to its elegant visual style and bizarre mood. Recommended.

The_Void This film is often considered to be a rip off of The Omen and/or Rosemary's Baby; however, I think it's unfair to label it as such as while it does focus on similar themes and both films may well have been an influence; if you were to consider this film a rip off, then you'd pretty much have to consider every film about the birth of the anti-Christ to be a rip off of The Omen and/or Rosemary's Baby. That being said, I don't want to give Damned in Venice too much credit; as while it has some ideas of it's own, they're mostly not very good ones! As the title suggests, the film is set in Venice; although this doesn't really have a lot of influence on the plot, but it is always a nice setting. The film focuses on Mark; a blind boy who begins having strange visions that seem to point to a looming disaster. Naturally, nobody believes him; including his sister who also happens to be his carer. Even when people start dying the kid is not believed, but things take a turn for the worse again when the man from his visions turns up and impregnates his sister...This film features a very odd brother and sister relationship, which is even worse considering the brother is blind. The brother is extremely vulnerable, and the sister (his carer) not only seems not to care, but it appears as if just spending time in the same room with this poor kid is a chore! Not that I can blame her though...he is seriously irritating. Some of the acting actually isn't bad; but the film does really suffer from some extremely poor dubbing. The brother and sister's voices especially are very irritating and it makes them difficult to care about. The main problem with the film is that it's rather boring. There certainly are some good ideas on display, but it's just too slow and the first hour especially is boring. Thankfully, the film starts to pick up a bit in the final third; although by then it is just a tad too late. We do get treated to a few good death scenes, however (one in particular that really stands out) and the final twist is fairly clever. Overall, this is not a great film by any means; it has a few good moments but not enough to warrant tracking it down.

pumaye Other than for the Venice scenarios, this late Rosemary's baby clone is almost dismissable without any comment, with its story of a blind young man trying to battle against the evil spawn of his sister short relation (in fact, she was virgin, as Satan want to mock Jesus life and death for his son)with a dark stranger, probably Satan himself. Bad acting, bad story, bad special effects, gratuitous nudity. A real B-movie, but not as good as it should be