Web of the Spider (1971)
"Nella stretta morsa del ragno" (original title)

The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ... See full summary »

Director:

Antonio Margheriti

Writers:

Giovanni Addessi (screenplay), Bruno Corbucci (screenplay),

Stars:

Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Anthony Franciosa	...	Alan Foster
Michèle Mercier	...	Elisabeth Blackwood
Klaus Kinski	...	Edgar Allan Poe
Peter Carsten	...	Dr. Carmus
Silvano Tranquilli	...	William Perkins
Karin Field	...	Julia
Raf Baldassarre	...	Herbert
Irina Maleeva	...	Elsie Perkins (as Irina Malewa)
Enrico Osterman	...	Lord Thomas Blackwood
Marco Bonetti	...	Maurice
Vittorio Fanfoni
Carla Mancini

Storyline

The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ghosts of the castle search for blood to tide them over for another year. In the castle Foster meet and fall in love with Elizabeth Blackwood.

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Plot Keywords:

castle | stabbing | murder | based on the works of edgar allan poe | living dead | 

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Taglines:

Based on Edgar Allen Poe's "Night of the Living Dead"

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Italy France West Germany

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

1972 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dracula in the Castle of Blood

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paris-Cannes Productions, Produzione DC7, Terra-Filmkunst

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min 97 min (cut)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Director Antonio Margheriti filmed this story six years earlier as Castle of Blood.

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Connections

Remake of Castle of Blood (1964)

User Reviews

Pretty bad

A haunted house romp that lacks the romp. Klaus Kinski is terrible as Edgar Allan Poe and Tony Franciosa of NAME OF THE GAME TV fame is embarrassing as an American reporter who spends a night in a haunted mansion outside London. Badly written, badly acted, badly edited. No scares, no chills, nothing. The "ghosts" are also apparently vampires! Or maybe they are just vampires. Who knows? Who cares? This is one of those early 70s Italian knockoffs of Roger Corman's Poe series. The claustrophobic sets are all that stands between this being a movie and a total joke. Avoid it. A little nudity and more explicit violence couldn't have hurt, but this is one of those hacked-up, heavily edited jobs for the American market.