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A Classic Of Intense Horror and Suspense
1965: Nightmare Castle is a lesser known film starring the favorite horror film actress Barbara Steele. Barbara Steele is the spotlight and the heroine in this film, as she is always in every film she does, portraying the beautiful tragic wife of a scientist. Steven, the scientist, is unaware that his wife is having an adulterous affair with their gardner. After he discovers them in a coupling, he storms into a heated fury and extracts his revenge. Chaining the lovers to a wall in his dungeon, he beats them and tortures them with his electric machinery. They die. Years later, he remarries a look-alike of his dead wife. This is when things get scary and confusing. The ghost of the dead lovers seem to appear again and haunt the castle. The special effects may be crude in contrast to today's horror imagery, but nevertheless has a 60's and Gothic feel to it with the right punch. The music is very effective, romantic piano and light chamber orchestra, and appropriately darker in certain sections. This film is a classic and a great collection to your cult horror favorites.

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NIGHTMARE CASTLE.....
AKA "Nightmare Castle" and directed by Mario Caiano this is another Gothic Italian horror film with the unearthly Barbara Steele in two roles: the unfaithful wife Muriel and her blonde half-sister Jenny. Muriel's husband Stephen is a doctor working on electrical impulses and their effect on blood. She is having an affair with another man until she's caught by Stephen. He tortures them both and kills them using his electrical device. Stephen then attempts to drive Jenny mad to keep her from inheriting anything but the ghosts of Muriel and her lover come back to haunt him and to possess Jenny. This is a fine atmospheric shocker in b&w and has only been available in cheaply done and shoddy DVD form. I'm hoping this is Synapse that is producing this and that it is done as well as "Castle of Blood". In fact, it could be called a companion piece to that film. Steele is beautifully photographed here and the entire film is very well done in spooky Gothic splendor. So it is highly recommended for Steele fans and fans of stylish Italian Gothic horror. Keep your fingers crossed that it's worth the wait to finally see it as it was meant to be seen.

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Average horror movie, with a hauntingly strange Steele.
[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.