- Actors: Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Liné, Laurence Clift, Giuseppe Addobbati
- Directors: Mario Caiano
- Writers: Mario Caiano, Fabio De Agostini
- Producers: Carlo Caiano
- Format: NTSC
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Distribution Madacy
- Release Date: Mar 4 2003
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000897C8
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #82,215 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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At the height of her career, Barbara Steele delivers 2 of her most memorable performances in this tale of obsession, madness, and depravity. Steele stars as a cheating wife who is chained, whipped, and tortured to death by her sadistic scientist husband, and as her unstable blonde stepsister whose fate may be even more ghastly. Paul Muller and Rik Battaglia co-star in this twisted shocker directed by Mario Caiano, featuring cinematography by Enzo Barboni and score by Ennio Morricone.
Barbara Steele has a dual role in this Italian production concerning a mad scientist who tortures his unfaithful wife and her lover to death only to have them return from the grave for revenge. With a score by Ennio Morricone.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Better copies out there,
This review is from: Nightmare Castle (DVD)
I have two copies on DVD of Nightmare Castle...This one from Madacy and another copy found in "Horror Classics Collection: 50 Movie Pack", which is also available from Amazon. Although, both copies are of the same length, I find the copy in the 50 Movie Pack to be of better quality, and thus recommend you put your money towards the 50 Movie Pack instead. Yes, it is true that you get extras like a trailer and an image of the movie poster on the copy from Madacy, but I don't think this makes up for the inferior image quality, and besides, you get some pretty good movies with the 50 Movie Pack, like "Tormented", "The Terror", "Carnival of Souls", "Night of the Living Dead", "The House on Haunted Hill", and "The Last Man on Earth", so kind of a 'win-win' situation staying away from the Madacy copy and going with the 50 Movie Pack. Cheers!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Average horror movie, with a hauntingly strange Steele.,
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This review is from: Nightmare Castle (DVD)
[Refers to VHS edition]. This movie of two sisters (both played by Steele) and her scientist husband, concerns her revenge for her husband's killing of her, when he catches her in an act of infidelity. She's strangely attractive, but limited in acting ability. The movie version I have wasn't edited very smoothly, and the sound is a bit slow in places; perhaps it's better on a disc version. The constant music, or theme, running through the movie is a bit overdramatic, and the whole thing can be, in places, a bit much. Overall, it's not great, but not bad. Steele is ok. I'd like to see her in some of her other movies (I'll have to see how many she's made.) Worth a brief look.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cult Classic Horror From 1965,
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This review is from: Nightmare Castle (DVD)
Nightmare Castle, originally released in 1965, stars Barbara Steele, the leading "scream queen" of the 60's. She starred in countless of horror films through the 60's. With her good looks, sex appeal and mystery, she was perfect in movies dealing with the supernatural and the macabre. This film I first saw in Macabre Theatre, a monster movie showcase in a lesser known station KDOCTV here in Southern California and it's now on cable channel KHIZ. The hosts were Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster from the 60's show The Munsters) and Ivonna Cadaver, a younger Elvira look-a-like. This film does have camp or cult classic value because so much of this material is not considered frightening today. In today's horror movie scene, blood, gore, excessive violence and a scary soundtrack is what does it for today's audiences. But for it's time in 1965 this weird movie must have scared audiences or at least creeped them out. Although it does not reach the heights of horror that Dawn Of The Dead did later in the 60's, Nightmare Castle is chilling, Gothic and genuinely haunting. The owner of a large castle, a scientist, is happily married to his beautiful wife (Barbara Steele). But while he is away, she engages in an affair with the gardener. When the scientist husband discovers their relationship, he becomes insanely jealous. Unleashing his fury and revenge, he tortures them with electric shock. These scenes are graphic, intense and disturbing, even for a 1965 film. I was very surprised by it. The torture is enough to kill the lovers. Years later, the scientist marries a beautiful replica of his wife (Barbara Steele again) She begins to be haunted by an evil presence in the castle. It becomes so bad that a therapist is hired to help her with what they think is psychological problems. The therapist, however, discovers that the castle is haunted. Guess by who ? The dead lovers that were killed years ago by the jealous husband! Eventually, there is a showdown between the ghosts, the scientist husband, the look-alike wife and the therapist, whom we are lead to believe is her new love interest. After many frightening confrontations, the castle burns down and our heroine Barbara Steele makes it out alive with her therapist boyfriend. This is a truly great film, despite its obscurity and its camp value. For a black and white film, it's visually impressive. The music as one review mentioned, is nothing dissonant or typical of horror movie soundtracks. It's subtle, it's romantic, making use of a lot of piano (Barbara Steele plays the piano in this movie). A must have for fans of Miss Steele or classic horror films.
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