A woman who has perhaps murdered her lover is living on unstable ground when he keeps returning to her at night, in her dreams and into her arms: Nocturne is a psychological horror film of disquietude and ambiguity, based in a world which may only exist within the imagination of the character. It borrows from Mario Bava's gothic horror stories of doppelgä;ngers and ghosts, and the writings on sexuality, violence, and the natural world by Kathy Acker and the Marquis de Sade; and concludes a trilogy (with The Color of Love, 1994, and The Deadman, 1990) of films about the psychology of women and dead men. With Anne Kugler, Bradley Eros, Karen Sullivan. (30 minutes, B&W, 16mm, From the artist)What!-originally released as La Frustra e il Corpo, also as Night Is the Phantom and The Whip and the Body-is by Italian horror master of shadow and illusion Mario Bava. It is set in the nineteenth century. The sadist Kurt Menliff (Christopher Lee) returns home to his father's castle, makes sexual advances on his brother's wife (Daliah Lavi), and soon after is discovered dead. When more people are killed, the family believes the bad son has returned from the crypt. Initially banned in Italy because of its sado-sexual themes, What! builds dramatically on the psychological conflicts of the characters tortured by the ambiguity between reality and illusion, life and death, and dream and desire. Has she really been haunted by the phantom of her dead lover or has she conjured him up through her guilt-ridden subconscious?-Peggy Ahwesh