Nightmare Castle (1965)
1h 45m | PG-13
A sadistic count tortures and murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, then removes their hearts from their bodies. Years later, the count remarries and the new wife experiences nightmares and hauntings.
Director: Mario Caiano
Studio: Cinematografica Emmeci
Genre: Horror
Video: 720p
Cast
Barbara Steele
as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Paul Müller
as Dr. Stephen Arrowsmith
Helga Liné
as Solange
Marino Masé
as Dr. Dereck Joyce
Giuseppe Addobbati
as Jonathan, the Butler
Rik Battaglia
as David
Reviews
A rather cruel doctor (Paul Muller) discovers that his wife (Barbara Steele) is having it away with another man so he tortures them both to death, then uses their ashes as compost for a plant. Once he discovers that his wife has left her considerable fortune to her deranged sister (again, Barbara Steele). he marries her with a view to having her certified and thus gaining the money for himself. Well, as you'd expect, his cunning plan doesn't quite go as he would have liked. Once the psychiatrist "Dr. Joyce" (Laurence Clift) arrives at his castle, the ghosts of his victims appear and all hell breaks loose - we've got blood transfusions and even an electrocution to deal with! The dialogue is pretty woeful, and I found Ennio Morricone's rousing organ music overwhelming and detracting from this otherwise quite enjoyable cheap and cheerful thriller that builds to quite a decent denouement over the last quarter of an hour.