Before leaving, they mention to her that this house is known as the "Snake’s Hole" and known for its horrible past. Unwilling and too stubborn to leave the house, she starts to investigate about the history of the house and finds out that it once belonged to the church as a boarding house for nuns and novices. As the electricity seems to not be working, she starts to search the entire house with a light bulb and finds cages with rats in the attic. She seeks help from a befriended priest and contacts her psychiatrist, but no one seems to believe her.Ĭompletely alone, unable to get help, she starts to investigate by herself. As the scary incidents start to increase and her fear starts to grow, she is finally convinced that she is not alone in this big, dark house. Suddenly she starts to hear a gruesome voice in the house, singing and whispering when she's alone. Even before the furniture is brought in, the first scary incident happens. She ignores these signs, believing them into being leftovers from her old trauma. As she steps into the house she suddenly starts to feel sick and seems to have a small panic attack. Moving in, the first incidents start to occur. As her husband left her a good fortune, she decides to start a new life and to open restaurant in an old, historic mansion. Her psychiatrist releases her from care, telling her to get in contact with him, if she starts to hear voices again. Believing this lie, she tries to convince the other novice sister into helping her.ĥ0 years later: A woman moves into the same house, after she spent 15 years in a mental asylum, due to a nervous breakdown caused by a heavy traumatic shock after her husband committed suicide. The nuns are in rage and demand justice, while the rape-victim asks her befriended novice sister to help her, as the offender promised to marry her if she remains silent. The police is instantly informed but unwilling to do anything, as the offender seems to belong to a very rich family. Later on they found out she has been raped. He is saying the young girl doesn't feel well. One winter night, a young novice is brought back to the convents house by a chauffeur. hearing frightening voices in the darkness and seeing things in the house, she starts to doubt her own mental sanity again, until she discovers a gruesome crime that happened 50 years back and its horrible secret. But she starts to feel she is not alone in this big, dark, building. With the intention to start a new life and to open a restaurant, she moves into an old, historical mansion. The protagonist of the film spent 15 years of her life in a mental asylum, recovering from a nervous breakdown, after her husband committed suicide. Ī more silent but very well made film from the Giallo Genre by Pupi Avati, that plays perfectly with the dark, gloomy atmosphere of an old, spooky house and its deadly secrets. It marked the comeback of Avati to the thriller genre (a genre he had successfully explored decades before in films such as The House with Laughing Windows and Zeder) after a series of intimate dramas and nostalgic comedies. The Hideout ( Italian: Il nascondiglio) is a 2007 Italian-American mystery film written and directed by Pupi Avati.
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