This Italian shocker stars John Phillip Law as Saint Simon, an artist whose greatest inspiration in his life is his wife. When she dies he goes off his rocker and starts to believe he is Vincent Van Gogh.
He just can't get feeling into his paintings until he meets a young woman named Sybille (Brigitte Christensen) who is the splitting image of his dead wife.
He traps her in the castle as he begins to paint again, but then he finds he needs real blood to paint so Simon and his necrophilic butler named Hermann (Gordon Mitchell) seek victims.
There are some really sick scenes in this movie and most of them involve Mitchell's character of Hermann. He is seen trying to have sex with the corpse of Simon's wife, he disembowels people and eats some of them, and he rapes a local young woman and kills her.
There is a lot of over the top acting from both Mitchell and Law, but somehow it works in this Italian version of the old HG Lewis movie "Color Me Blood Red".
This was a first time viewing of this Italian horror, and I did enjoy it, but it's not for everyone. I can recommend it to hard core Italian horror fans. The presentation from Vinegar Syndrome is top notch as always.
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