themselves outside and hear the explosion of the castle. The two return home, when another letter arrives from another prince but this time Danielle burns it. Production Towards the end of the 1960s, director Filippo Ratti became involved with the short-lived production company Primax and directed two films written by Aldo Marcovecchio that were shot on the same sets: Erika and The Night of the Damned. The Night of the Damned went into production as Il castello dei Saint-Lambert. The film was shot in Ceri, Cerviteri and at Elios Studios in Rome. The film's score by Carlo Savina is predominantly recycled from his music made for Malenka. Release The Night of the Damned was initially released in Italy on 10 September 1971 where it was distributed by Panta Cinematografica. Compared to Erika which grossed 300 million Italian lire, The Night of the Demon grossed considerably less and by the time it had been sent to the board of censors in Italy, Primax had gone bankrupt. Film historian and critic Roberto Curti described the film's gross as "a modest sum" of 82,772,000 lire. When the film was released in France as Les nuits sexuelles on April 23, 1975 which featured more explicit scenes such as one where females are tickled by naked handmaidens while lesbian and heterosexual couplings take place around them. At a screening in Genoa, a version described as the "nude version" was accidentally screened which led to the projectionist to apologize and offer refunds. This version was also English leading to most theatre goes not to understand the film. References Footnotes Sources External links Gothic horror films 1970s erotic films 1971 horror films 1971 films Italian erotic horror films Films shot in Rome 1970s Italian-language films 1970s Italian films