26. A Horror Film That Features Edwige Fenech

I may have run out of Edwige Fenech horror films, but this is the next best thing.

Directed and written by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia, who together directed 20 films and wrote 70, this stars Edwige as Silvia, who has just married her longtime lover, Asso (Adriano Celentano). An expert card player, he has promised to give up gambling for her, but has one last game in him. He wins, but is killed by Sicario (Gianni Magni). 

However, because of how much he loves Silvia, he can come back to Earth and wants to find a man to take care of her so he can go to Heaven. He decides on an old banker named Luigi Morgan (Pippo Santonastaso), but a rival, Bretella (Renato Salvatori), the man who had Asso killed, is trying to take Silvia for himself. However, this caper leads the old man to realize how much he misses his dead wife, Enrichetta (Sylva Koscina). 

Alone again, Silvia finally meets a card player who looks just like Asso, who finally does make it to Heaven, where God defeats him in a card game.

This feels a lot like Heaven Can Wait, and it also seems like Ghost took some elements from it. 

I took the Lord’s name in vain several times during this movie, including a moment when we see the outline of Ms. Fenech through a stained-glass window. As this movie teaches us that God gambles, I feel that the Supreme Being is fine with me ogling one of His or Her’s finest creations.