The best John Karlsen’s mystery movies

John Karlsen

John Karlsen

20/10/1919- 05/04/2017
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best John Karlsen’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about John Karlsen.

Spirits of the Dead

Spirits of the Dead
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHorrorMystery
  • Release: 16/05/1968
  • Character: Schoolmaster (segment "William Wilson") (uncredited)
Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion - who it turns out is really her dead lover. "William Wilson" tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.

Slaughter Hotel

Slaughter Hotel
5/10
A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women.

Footprints

Footprints
6.6/10
  • Genre: MysteryThriller
  • Release: 01/02/1975
  • Character: Alfredo Laurenti / Alfred Lowenthal (as John Carlsen)
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory

Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
4.7/10
The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher - Sir Alfred Whiteman - with some love letters, is slaughtered by a werewolf. The detective in charge of the investigation attributes the crime to a wolf, while her mate Priscilla believes she was killed by Sir Alfred. On the next days, other deaths happen in the school, reducing the list of suspects.

The Hideout

The Hideout
6/10
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.

The Sandman

The Sandman
5.2/10
Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious "Sandman" Coppola, a figure from Daniel's childhood, returns to haunt him, while he succumbs to an obsessive love with an enigmatic woman of strange beauty: Olympia, who might be far more than she first appears to be...

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