Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette (1974)

User Rating:

2.3/10   

Director:

Dick Randall

Writers:

Mario Francini (writer)
William Rose (writer)

Release Date:

January 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Terror stalks the castle when the secret of life falls into the wrong hands.

Plot:

Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man...

Plot Keywords:

Neanderthal | Monster | Dwarf | Male Nudity | Knife

Cast

Rossano Brazzi	...	Count Frankenstein
Michael Dunn	...	Genz
Edmund Purdom	...	Prefect Ewing,
Gordon Mitchell	...	Igor
Loren Ewing	...	Goliath
Luciano Pigozzi	...	Hans (as Alan Collins)
Xiro Papas	...	Kreegin
Salvatore Baccaro	...	Ook (as Boris Lugosi)
Simonetta Vitelli	...	Maria Frankenstein (as Simone Blondell)
Eric Mann	...	Eric
Laura De Benedittis	...	Valda
Robert Marx	...	Detective Koerner
Christiane Rücker	...	Krista Lauder (as Christiane Royce)
Margaret Oliver	...	Paisan Woman
Alessandro Perrella	...	Doctor (as Perrella Alessandro)

Also Known As:

Castello della paura (Italy)
Dr. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Frankenstein's Castle (UK) (video title)
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (USA) (dubbed version)
Monsters of Frankenstein
Terror
Terror Castle
The House of Freaks
The Monsters of Dr. Frankenstein

Runtime:

89 min | Canada:90 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Norway:16 | Finland:K-16 | UK:15 | USA:PG

Company:

Classic Films International

Movie Connections:

Edited into Extra Weird (2003) (V)

Castle of nothing much....

Going into this it had elements that I love in horror movies, it was Italian, it had monsters, it had a castle, it had a dwarf, but it also went nowhere and stayed there. Rossano Brazzi plays Dr. Frankenstein and he's experimenting on cave folks that live round those there parts, something to do with an earthquake 500 years ago or something, which is every bit as plausible as most of the rest of the film. This flick seemed like a bunch of loosely-related activities strung together to make a feature-length film and things are introduced that just never appear again and you wonder what they were about, like a grave robbing incident where a young woman was dug up early in the movie....and what happened to her? I dunno, someone investigated though and found little dwarf footprints around the grave site, but then...? Mr. Dwarf himself is on the lam after being turned out of the castle for being naughty, and he's busy teaching the cave creatures to cook meat instead of eating it raw and spying on young ladies when they bathe in the mineral water in the cave. Whee. This is suitable entertainment for when you're really bored and want something mindless to watch, but other than that it's not really worth seeing.