During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by...

Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.

The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in...