I would have to rank this movie as perhaps one step above an Ed Wood cult movie. Actually, when the final 15 or so minutes arrived, the story became interesting, but the movie wandered around the castle following Rossana Podesta looking brave and uninteresting in a doughty dressing gown so I did not care when she learned the monster was not her husband and the old man finally got peace.
I take horror films (excepting slice and dice genre) as seriously as all the people who wrote good reviews for "Horror Castle" but the direction was below amateurish and the film editor could have lobed off a good hour with no loss. Very disappointed. What did I miss? Oh, and by the way: the music was absolutely ridiculous. If the movie had even a little bit of rhyme and reason it was destroyed by the fakey bebop opening, and Glen Miller-backed love scenes and stock suspense music which made the score seem like a satire. But on what?
I take horror films (excepting slice and dice genre) as seriously as all the people who wrote good reviews for "Horror Castle" but the direction was below amateurish and the film editor could have lobed off a good hour with no loss. Very disappointed. What did I miss? Oh, and by the way: the music was absolutely ridiculous. If the movie had even a little bit of rhyme and reason it was destroyed by the fakey bebop opening, and Glen Miller-backed love scenes and stock suspense music which made the score seem like a satire. But on what?