Tragic Ceremony

Tragic Ceremony
Directed by	Riccardo Freda
Screenplay by	Mario Bianchi[1]
Story by	Mario Bianchi[1]
Starring	Camille Keaton Luciana Paluzzi Luigi Pistilli Giovanni Petrucci
Cinematography	Francisco Fraile[1]
Edited by	Iolanda Benvenuti[1]
Music by	Stelvio Cipriani[1]
Production companies	Produzioni Internazionali Associate Tecisa[1]
Distributed by	Variety Distribution
Release dates	20 December 1972 (1972-12-20) (Italy) September 1974 (1974-09) (Spain)
Running time	82 minutes[1]
Countries	Italy Spain[1]
Box office	₤7.68 million[1]

Tragic Ceremony (Italian: Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea - lit. Extracted from the Secret Police Archives of a European Capital, Spanish: Trágica ceremonia en villa Alexander) is a 1972 horror film directed by Riccardo Freda (credited as Robert Hampton) and starring Camille Keaton, Tony Isbert, Máximo Valverde and Irina Demick in her final movie before her death in 2004. Its plot follows a group of young people who find themselves haunted in the hours after witnessing a black mass while lodging at a remote estate during a rainstorm.

The film received a limited theatrical release in Italy on 20 December 1972. In 2004 it was restored and shown as part of the retrospective "Storia Segreta del Cinema Italiano: Italian Kings of the Bs" at the 61st Venice International Film Festival. The film was never dubbed in English and it's distributed worldwide by Variety Distribution.