Following the success of Diabolik, comes Satanik. Taken from a comic by Max Bunker and Magnus, it's an Italian-Spanish low budget production that tries to re-propose the atmosphere of Bava's film. Unfortunately Piero Vivarelli is not Mario Bava: camera work is bad, acting is bad and the characters are not developed well. The story is enough suspenseful, but this is due more to the comic origin than to Eduardo Brochero's screenplay. It is considered a precursor of the sexy-horror genre of the seventies. It's a sort of female version of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde: Dr. Marnie Bannister, a disfigured old woman, drinks a substance that has the power to regenerate the cells and becomes a beautiful young woman, but gets more evil too. Besides killing people to keep her secret, she gets involved with some international mobs. It's a fact that the movie itself is not very good, but if you're into 6T's movies or 6T's stuff in general, you have more than one reason to watch this. There is a good period atmosphere with amazing 6Ts clothes and wonderful interiors of houses. Then the music by Roberto Pregadio is fantastic, especially the strip track performed by the Italian band "Gepy & Gepy". But if someone is not interested in the period can't definitely like this film
