¨Torture chamber of Dr Sadism¨ is a classic Gothic terror loosely based on the horrific story "Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum" and competently directed by the prolific German director Harald Reinl . Entertaining as well as thrilling horror film produced by Constantine Films , with a monumental team of terror , and an European all-star-cast such as Christopher Lee , Lex Barker and Karin Dor . Vintage chiller German picture with eye-popping images , some good shock scenes and slick direction . Decapited , quartered and drawn for sacrificing 12 virgins , the creepy Count Regula (Christopher Lee) is placed together 40 years later to go on his wicked ways . As the sinister Count executed for murdering twelve virgins in a bid for immortality goes back to life , seeking vengeance on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor . To find out exactly what happened Roger Mont Elise (Lex Barker) goes to the eerie stronghold . The villain count lures to Roger von Marienberg and Baroness Lilian von Brabant (Karin Dor) to his foreboding castle in order to right an imagined wrong . Regula has a torture chamber which he often uses to punish his victims . There are various bloodcurling torture instruments , such as : ¨Iron Maiden¨ and a ¨pendulum¨ . Unbelievable ! . Until You See It With Your Own Eyes! Beauties! The Prey of a Monster's Desires! A mature person's trip through the ultimate in horrific wickedness !. A New High in Horror!
A stylish and first-rate chiller film , confidently realized , plenty of enjoyable moments , goose bumps , scary scenes and plot twists . This is a true terror movie , great fun , it is immaculately staged , stylishly realized , very literate , confidently made and full of attractive , horrific images . Shivering terror has strangely been more skillfully made than in this agreeable horror Harald Reinl directed . A familiar story that has certain Bava and Corman feel , although it doesn't live up to its material or title . The picture packs striking scenarios including mists rise the ground , lugubrious castle , creepy corridors , frightening grottoes, shrieks come from gloomy coffins , and vague shapes move behind the dismal castle gone to the bad , including terrific art direction . The astoshing torture threatening to quivering Lex Barker paying tribute to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and to Roger Corman. The wall paintings bear remarkable resemblance to "The Last Judgement" from "The Garden of Earthly Delights¨ by Hieronymus Bosch . Excellent cast and special mention for Christopher Lee chewing the scenario on a loopy screenplay . This standard Horror film was shot in budget enough and only remotely derived from the classic Edgar Allan Poe story , but beware of the heavily edited DVDs.
This Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel (1967) also titled The Blood Demon (Ireland, English title) , Blood Demon (United States) The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (United States) , Torture Chamber (United States) or The Blood Demon was well directed by Harald Reilm . German director of commercially successful entertainments, often Heimatfilms, war dramas or crime thrillers . Reinl began in films as a stunt skier for Arnold Fanck in 1930 and then doubled for Leni Riefenstahl in The White Intoxication (1931). A junior ski champion, he managed a French ski school during the 1930s, before taking up full-time directing just prior to World War II. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1950s and '60s, cleverly anticipating genre trends, especially with his series of Karl May westerns (The Treasure of the Silver Lake , Winnetou I , Winnetou: Last of the Renegades) , Adventures (The Crazy Jungle Adventure, Night on Mont-Blanc , Romarey: operation Mazaref, Bergkristall, Hell Hounds of Alaska, Nibelungs ) , Thriller or Euro-spy (Death and Diamonds , Agent X against the red tigers, Jerry Cotton ,Fatal Gun Shots on Broadway, Death in a Red Jaguar) and Edgar Wallace krimis (The Fellowship of the Frog , The Invisible Claws of Dr. Mabuse, The forger of London) . Rating : 6.5/10 . Decent horror movie . Worthwhile watching.
A stylish and first-rate chiller film , confidently realized , plenty of enjoyable moments , goose bumps , scary scenes and plot twists . This is a true terror movie , great fun , it is immaculately staged , stylishly realized , very literate , confidently made and full of attractive , horrific images . Shivering terror has strangely been more skillfully made than in this agreeable horror Harald Reinl directed . A familiar story that has certain Bava and Corman feel , although it doesn't live up to its material or title . The picture packs striking scenarios including mists rise the ground , lugubrious castle , creepy corridors , frightening grottoes, shrieks come from gloomy coffins , and vague shapes move behind the dismal castle gone to the bad , including terrific art direction . The astoshing torture threatening to quivering Lex Barker paying tribute to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and to Roger Corman. The wall paintings bear remarkable resemblance to "The Last Judgement" from "The Garden of Earthly Delights¨ by Hieronymus Bosch . Excellent cast and special mention for Christopher Lee chewing the scenario on a loopy screenplay . This standard Horror film was shot in budget enough and only remotely derived from the classic Edgar Allan Poe story , but beware of the heavily edited DVDs.
This Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel (1967) also titled The Blood Demon (Ireland, English title) , Blood Demon (United States) The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (United States) , Torture Chamber (United States) or The Blood Demon was well directed by Harald Reilm . German director of commercially successful entertainments, often Heimatfilms, war dramas or crime thrillers . Reinl began in films as a stunt skier for Arnold Fanck in 1930 and then doubled for Leni Riefenstahl in The White Intoxication (1931). A junior ski champion, he managed a French ski school during the 1930s, before taking up full-time directing just prior to World War II. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1950s and '60s, cleverly anticipating genre trends, especially with his series of Karl May westerns (The Treasure of the Silver Lake , Winnetou I , Winnetou: Last of the Renegades) , Adventures (The Crazy Jungle Adventure, Night on Mont-Blanc , Romarey: operation Mazaref, Bergkristall, Hell Hounds of Alaska, Nibelungs ) , Thriller or Euro-spy (Death and Diamonds , Agent X against the red tigers, Jerry Cotton ,Fatal Gun Shots on Broadway, Death in a Red Jaguar) and Edgar Wallace krimis (The Fellowship of the Frog , The Invisible Claws of Dr. Mabuse, The forger of London) . Rating : 6.5/10 . Decent horror movie . Worthwhile watching.