Bloody Pit of Horror

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Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)

16 05/16/1967 (US) Horror 1h 27m

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He was a homicidal maniac who LIVED TO KILL!

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A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.

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Mickey Hargitay

Travis Anderson
Walter Brandi

Rick
Alfredo Rizzo

Daniel Parks
Ralph Zucker

Dermott, the Photographer
Nando Angelini

Nik Angel
Luisa Baratto

Edith
Albert Gordon

Raoul
Gino Turini

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A review by Wuchak

6.0

Written by Wuchak on October 24, 2019

Kitschy Italian torture horror from the mid-60s

A group of ten people on a photoshoot near Rome spend the night in a castle owned by an eccentric recluse (Mickey Hargitay) who’s fascinated by an infamous executioner who was executed there over 300 years ago.

"Bloody Pit of Horror" (1965) is akin to mid-60’s kitsch like “Village of the Giants” (1965), but with the horror bent of “Horror Hotel” (1960, aka “City of the Dead”) and “Dracula, Prince of Darkness” (1966). Future movies like “The Devil’s Nightmare” (1971) and “Howling V: The Rebirth” (1989) took the template and made bette... read the rest.

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