Horror Castle (La vergine di Norimberga)
Directed by Antonio Margheriti
Written by Ernesto Gastaldi, Edmund T. Greville and Antonio Margheriti from a novel by Frank Bogart
1963/Italy
Atlantica Cinematografica Produzione Films
First viewing/Amazon Instant
[box] So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. George Saunders [/box]
This Italian Gothic horror show contains many genuinely creepy moments.
Max Hunter and his new wife Mary travel to Max’s family castle. The castle features a museum of torture in its basement. Max keeps leaving Mary alone and she quickly discovers a murdered body in the “Virgin of Nuremberg”. Max reassures Mary that she has dreamt this but her experience grows more frightening as the body toll mounts. There are many suspects including the scarred servant Erich (Christopher Lee).
This movie does not pull any punches in the torture department! It kept my interest throughout. I watched the dubbed Americanized version on Amazon Instant, in which the director is listed under his pseudonym Anthony Dawson.
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