This really is a delightful house of horrors that can only be gotten to through a venture through a dark and very expensive looking Forest. It is possessed by the spirit of an evil count executed through being drawn and quartered 45 years before. Now he's been brought back to life (in the form of Christopher Lee) and seeks vengeance on the daughter of one of his intended victims who managed to escape. Being summoned to this spooky castle, Lex Barker and Karin Dor meet and fall in love, but they are at the non-mercy of the mad Christopher Lee.
There's a very silly looking pendulum, plus an assortment of rats, flesh eating birds, snakes, scorpions, tarantulas, and the other various Edgar Allan Poe tortures that makes this quite a visual treat. I found myself chillled by much of it, but as quickly as I got goosebumps got the urge to laugh as well. It's a well done German horror film that is a fine version of "The Pit & the Pendulum" with mediocre English dubbing but a great deal of superb art direction.
There's a very silly looking pendulum, plus an assortment of rats, flesh eating birds, snakes, scorpions, tarantulas, and the other various Edgar Allan Poe tortures that makes this quite a visual treat. I found myself chillled by much of it, but as quickly as I got goosebumps got the urge to laugh as well. It's a well done German horror film that is a fine version of "The Pit & the Pendulum" with mediocre English dubbing but a great deal of superb art direction.