Macabre

Macabre (Macabro, 1980) is an Italian horror film you can watch online on iFILM — the directing debut of Lamberto Bava, son of the great Mario Bava. He sets the story in a sweltering New Orleans boarding house.

Jane has been shattered twice over: her lover dies in a car crash, and her young son dies the same day. Hollowed out by grief, she rents the very room where the affair once played out. The blind landlord downstairs starts catching sounds through the walls — whispers, sighs, a presence that shouldn't be there. He slowly realizes the woman upstairs has never let her dead lover go, and that what she keeps in her room is unspeakable.

Bava builds a patient, sickly dread rather than a gore show, leaning on the creeping certainty that something in this house is deeply wrong. The final reveal still lands like a slap. A treat for fans of vintage Italian horror. Stream Macabre (1980) online on iFILM.