Castle of Blood

Castle of Blood (1964)

Danza macabra

The living and the dead change places in an orgy of terror!

When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it unlocks an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance, and a dark seductress who surrenders the gravest of pleasures.

Date of release
1964-02-27
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (132)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Horror
Director
Antonio Margheriti

Casting

Interesting facts

Castle of Blood is a 1964 gothic horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Barbara Steele, Georges Rivière, Margarete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici, Silvano Tranquilli and Umberto Raho. It was an Italian-French co-production.

Production

The idea for Castle of Blood came to Sergio Corbucci when producer Giovanni Addessi commissioned him to create a film that would reuse the Medieval sets from Corbucci's comedy film The Monk of Monza. Corbucci had his brother Bruno Corbucci and screenwriter Gianni Grimaldi write the script. The script is credited to a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, but the film is not based on any specific Poe work.

According to Ruggero Deodato, who was the assistant director on set, he persuaded actress Barbara Steele to star in the film, although Steele had just done 8½ for director Federico Fellini, and wanted to distance herself from horror films. When filming was about to begin, Sergio Corbucci found that his schedule conflicted with the shoot and called upon his friend Antonio Margheriti to direct the film.

Margheriti had a tight schedule for filming, and shot the film using the same method as a television production by setting up four cameras at once. To finish the film on time, Margheriti brought in Sergio Corbucci to direct the scene where Giovanni Cianfriglia's characters murder Steele's character. The film was eventually shot in 15 days.

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