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.

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.

After a day of sailing, a group of friends — Jane, Bill, Joe, and Fred — are traveling through the English countryside when their car runs out of gasoline.

In the midst of a rainstorm, they come across a large estate owned by Lord and Lady Alexander, who offer to refuel their car and invite them to spend the night.

[9][10] In 2021, Tragic Ceremony was newly scanned & restored in 2k from its 35mm original camera negative and subsequently released on blu-ray as part of collection called Camille Keaton in Italy by Vinegar Syndrome.

Paper magazine gave the film a positive review, calling it a "truly rare Gothic Italian chiller" and a "groovy and gory gas.

"[13] Jeremiah Kipp of Slant magazine gave the film a negative review, writing: "Tragic Ceremony starts out as a nondescript, frankly mundane Italian variation of the horror movie template where four kids having car trouble stop at a haunted house and find themselves kidnapped by a satanic cult ...

These sporadic bursts of cult-movie oddness are amusing, but [the film] isn't scary enough to induce terror, unintentionally funny enough for camp, or bizarre enough for mad surrealism.