I just wanted to add that the Film Masters restoration of the film is gorgeous and you should pick it up. I have never seen the film looking or sounding better than this.
Not to shabby of a remake of "Castle Of Blood".
If you've seen the earlier version you know the plot.
Anthony Franciosa stars as Alan Turner, a newspaperman who takes a bet that he can spend the night in a haunted castle. He is taken there by the castle's owner and Edgar Allen Poe (Klaus Kinski).
Once there Alan meets a beautiful woman named Elisabeth Blackwood (Michele Mercier) who is the sister of the owner. Alan falls in love with the delicious Elisabeth, but soon learns the terrible truth.
There are others in the castle as well and Alan learns that all of them, including Elisabeth a dead and come to life one night a year a re-live their murders and the murders they committed.
Antonio Margheriti has remade his own film from 6 years earlier and did a good job with it, as usual. I'm not sure why he remade it, but it works no matter what.
Mercier makes a very sexy female character here and she exudes a very different character than Barbara Steele in the original. That's a good thing however.
The rest of the cast includes Peter Carsten, Silvano Tranquilli, Karin Field and Irina Maleeva.
I really liked this Italian horror film and recommend you check it out as well.
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