Never underestimate the power of a movie, particularly one that takes the viewers all the way to the moon for a scare and brings them back to a period of amnesia in the recent life of its protagonist. Footprints on the Moon (1975) by Luigi Bazzoni and Mario Fanelli exhibits this power in full force to the curiosity and apprehension of the audience.

The opening scene showing an astronaut viciously abandoned on the moon by the crew of a spacecraft, leaving him in distress all alone and helpless, sets the tone for what the viewers would witness with the movie’s protagonist Alice Cespi (Florinda Bolkan) for the next 90 minutes. Waking up one morning at her residence in Italy, Alice starts discovering strange things in her place and her life that she can’t seem to remember. To account for th...

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