12. MOROSE CODE: Nestle into your favorite dark place to view a Gothic horror piece.

Directed and written by Alberto Abruzzese and Achille Pisanti, this was described by Abruzzese as a “hypersensible journey among the literary and cinematic genres…a game of displacements.” Based on the Abruzzese novel Anemia Storia di un vampiro comunista, it was first shown on Rai Tre television on October 27, 1990.

Umberto (Hanns Zischler) is a high-ranking Communist Party official who learns that he has become a vampire. He leaves behind the real world and goes to the house of his grandfather, which is all a comment on how the Italian Communists became the Democratic Party of the Left.

It’s more cerebral than Italian horror, but hey, Gioia Scola (Obsession: A Taste for Fear) is in it.

I’m trying to watch every Italian Gothic Horror movie ever — here’s the Letterboxd list — and sometimes, you get to watch The Vampire and the Ballerina or Kill, Baby, Kill. And other times, you watch this.

You can watch this on YouTube.