Il castello della paura (1974)

Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.

Director:

Dick Randall

Writers:

Mario Francini, William Rose,

Stars:

Rossano Brazzi, Michael Dunn, Edmund Purdom

Cast

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

Storyline

Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.

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Plot Keywords:

dwarf | monster | neanderthal | hot spring | milk bath | 

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Taglines:

A mad scientist toils in secret. His experiments defy nature. His creatures destroy life.

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

January 1975 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dr. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks

Company Credits

Production Co:

Classic Films International

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Cinemassacre's Monster Madness: Dracula vs. Frankenstein (2010)

User Reviews

Campy horror-sex mish-mash

Two vaguely related storylines provide a flimsy excuse to link a series of exploitation scenes involving violent murder, kinky sex, and sexual violence.

The flimsy plot threads involve a standard mad-scientist type, here cunningly named Count Frankenstein, performing experiments on a bizarre "missing link" he has captured in the local countryside. Meanwhile his former henchman, a misbehaving dwarf, befriends yet another hulking missing link creature and, partly to bring suspicion upon his hated former employer as well as to appease his own lust, commits rape and murder with assistance from his new friend.

Apart from the ugly cook who enjoys rough sex with one of her freakish co-workers, Count Frankenstein's visiting daughter, her fiance and a university friend are on-hand to provide the bulk of the nude glimpses and sex scenes. At one point the daughter and the female friend share a mineral mud-bath in a cave. Since this scene fails to move the plot along, has no affect on the on-going story, and does not even lead to sex (despite some initial hints that suggest it might be proceeding down that path) we must assume it was included solely so it could be shown out-of-context in the trailer to suggest that more could be seen in the actual film.

Mildly amusing and somewhat intriguing, but by no means any good.