Fists in the Pocket

Director Marco Bellocchio rethinks the horror genre with unsettling results in his feature-film debut, widely considered one of the great achievements of Italian cinema. Vowing to fix it so that his only normal brother (Marino Mase) can get married without fear of being burdened, a death-obsessed epileptic (Lou Castel) sets out to rid his aberrant family of its faults -- and he starts by throwing his blind mother (Liliana Gerace) into a ravine.