BOB!

I don’t know if this is an authentic Australian poster for this film or not (it actually only got an M rating for cinema release, and the R rating didn’t come until it went to video, so I suspect “not”), but either way godDAMN that’s a nasty tagline… as well as picking up on the famously spurious end-quote of the film, it also picks up on the film’s equally famous child character, Bob… played by Giovanni Frezza, who was subjected to an infamous dubbing job that has always been considered bad even by early 80s Italo-horror standards. Implying that Bob, or whoever dubbed him, is the real monster of that film is harsh… and yet not wholly unfair either. That said, I have it now on blu-ray with the Italian soundtrack, and I have sampled some of the scenes with Bob in Italian (going to do a full rewatch of the “Gates of Hell” films at some point soon), and I’m not sure he’s much better in that form…