Castle of Blood 1964

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• CinemaSerfon TMDB · Nov 20257/10

  Though the English language dubbing here isn’t the best, the rest of this creepy horror film works really quite well. It all starts in a London inn where journalist “Alan” (Georges Rivière) sits down with Edgar Allan Poe (Silvano Tranquilli) and his friend “Lord Blackwood” (Umberto Raho). As their chat proceeds, the peer bets the sceptical “Alan” to spend Halloween at his remote castle. Confident that the £10 is already on the bag, he sets off - and no sooner is he through the door than he meets “Elizabeth” (Barbara Steele). There is a bit of instant karma between the pair, and a bit of a roll in the hay promptly ensues. Thing is, though, afterwards when he encounters the enigmatic “Dr. Cadmus (Arturo Domenici) and fellow residents “Julia” (Margrete Robsahm) and “Herbert” (Giovanni Cianfriglia) he begins to realise that it’s not whisky, but blood that is the source of all life and his role in the proceedings is now more akin to a tile in a lethal game of human dominoes for one night of the year. What chance he can escape from this perilous cycle? Set in a creepily candle-lit building replete with grand staircases, secret passages and creaking floorboards this uses some quite innova

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