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Just the thing for spooky Halloween-night viewing, this good-looking German film from director Harald Reinl tells the story of the horrible Count Regula (Christopher Lee), who murdered a dozen virgins and drained their blood. For these heinous crimes, he was sentenced to be drawn and quartered. Thirty-five years later, his undead servant resurrects him for revenge and a 13th victim (pretty Karin Dor), whose blood will give Regula eternal life. Lex Barker (a former movie Tarzan) plays the descendant of the man who sentenced Regula to death and has the task of stopping him, aided by Dor's maid and a highwayman disguised as a monk. Some chilling visuals (a haunted forest with corpses growing out of trees, swarms of vultures in the castle corridors, the obligatory pendulum) and assorted creepy crawlies (pits of snakes, spiders and scorpions) make this a real old-fashioned scare-fest, and it is not too bloody for horror-hungry children. Very loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's Pit and the Pendulum, this film delivers on its promise to frighten.
Im Jahre 1801 wird Graf Regula wegen Mordes an zwölf Jungfrauen gevierteilt. Viele Jahre später erhalten der Advokat Roger Mont-Elise und die attraktive Baronesse Lilian von Brabant eine Einladung in das verrufene Sandertal. Die Fahrt durch gespenstische Wälder führt sie direkt in die Ruinen des Schlosses von Graf Regula und in dessen Folterkammer. Noch kann niemand ahnen, dass hier die Wiederbelebung des Grafen vorbereitet wird, doch dafür braucht dieser noch das Blut einer dreizehnten Jungfrau...
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