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'CASTLE OF BLOOD'
From EDGAR ALLAN POE
Italian Horror...
Directed By; Antonio
Margheriti.
Stars the Infamous
'Italian Horror-Diva-Icon; BARBARA STEELE,
Georges Riviere,
Margrete Robsahm, etc.
DVD-1964 and Now
Streaming on Amazon-Prime & Free on TUBI!
Greetings once again
my little 'Autumnal-Equinox' Spider-Bites!
I wish you all a happy
fall from your 'Autumnal-Equinox Queen'-2025;DITA DIRT NAP! What way to
greet another NEW Fall as well as another 'Halloween Season' in October and
Yet Another Coming Back from the Dead, this time uh, mine after a long
illness but DITA is B-A-C-K and ready to rumble for along time to come
again! Also
DITA wants to Thank all my Fans who contacted this old 'Grave-Gal' during my
long illness and Dolly hopes to n-e-v-e-r go away a-g-a-i-n. LOL! Yes I'm
Back and better than ever than with a Review of another BARBARA STEELE
Fright-Flick straight from ITALY, Hon! This ones a Cult-Classic and is
called; 'CASTLE OF BLOOD' from the year of my 'Vamp-Hubby''s Birth....1964!
The Tagline Reads;
'THEY LOVE ONLY FOR BLOOD!' Also this one from the Movie-Poster; 'THE LIVING
AND THE DEAD CHANGE PLACES IN AN ORGY OF TERROR!' DITA must tell you this
Flick is perfect for the Merry/Scary Month of October ,since it takes place
on 'HALLOWEEN' Night!
This fun classic
Italian Horror Flick once again has everything you want in an old fashion
horror film like Mss. Steele's 'Gore-juss' gothically-beautiful face w/her
infamous saucer-eyes as well as a creep-classic underground tomb, darkness,
long, flowing, billowing curtains, candle obras, creaky doors, a
dark castle, a front yard grave yard, a black kitty cat, wandering the afore
mentioned grave yard, and room after room after room of living space or
should I say dead-space! (Insert Evil Laugh here, Dear!)
L-O-V-E IT!
So this film starts
out in a turn-of-the-century pub w/Edgar Allan Poe, a Professor and a
eager-beaver writer talking over a wager from the weird Professor telling
the Writer
he has a
haunted castle where people haven't returned from that he wants him to stay
over night for the Halloween holiday where the veil is thinned between the
living and the dead.
He Only agrees if on
the 2 hour carriage ride that he gets a Interview w/the Edgar Allan Poe. He
agrees after Poe agrees to grant and give the Interview in the long-ass
carriage ride to the 'castle of blood'.
Before leaving
the Castle the nutty professor tells the Writer he will be back w/Mr. Poe at
dawn to get him and to let him keep the prize money for staying over night.
He quickly makes his way thru the creepy front yard grave yard as well as
stumbling onto the afore mentioned black kitty cat that does cross his path.
Once inside he lights candle obras and begins looking around until he finds
a portrait of a lovely blonde woman who has haunting eyes. The after
snooping around he feels a hand on his shoulder.
DUN-DUN, DONE!
Who's hand is it you
may ask? Why, Barbara Steele's dainty hand of course. Her characters name is
Elizabeth, she tells the Handsome Writer who tells her he is single. Hmmmm?
Reminds
me of turn of the century 'tinder' a little, don't you think? Swipe, swipe,
Hon!
Any-Boo, he quickly
falls in love w/the saucer-eyed dark hair gothic beauty as does she about
half way thru the beginning of the picture.Then heis introduced to the
Blonde woman in the portrait w/the haunting eyes who DITA never quite
figured out if she is Mss. Steele's characters cousin, friend, sister??
Slowly as the night plays out he starts to see that she may be a ghost aka
dead person and is finally show around the bewitching hour of midnight her
last five minutes of life of all who died in the castle.
First we see that Babs
character Elizabeth is was married and that her hubby who traveled long
distances for business a lot and that she of course got lonely. In one
ghostly flash back scene you see that while hubby was gone she had been
'bumping-uglies' with the gardener or was he the grounds keeper. That fact
is never really made clear.
So in another scene
we see her w/her; 'side-piece' , and they start to do the deed in her dress
that DITA noticed hung way off the shoulders almost exposing her breasts
that looked to be bra-less.
Any way, she is
caught by her angry husband and he kills the man, who btw, my little
'blood-bag's, almost never has a shirt on and is constantly shirt less. Now
DITA forgot to tell you that the Writer is being shown these ghastly last
five minutes of life by a deceased Dr. Ghost. Also 'Dr. Ghost' shows him
his own death which happens by the shirtless lover of Babs Steele's
character Elizabeth. How you might ask? By the 'side-piece' ghost lover
materializing back from the dead then coming into his room after the Dr.
writing something on paper that is in Italian.
The
lover/side-piece ghost comes in ,uh, shirt-less of course and bites the good
Dr. and taking his blood so 'side-piece' can come back and do it all again
next all hallow's eve. Then they flash back to Elizabeth/Barbara Steele's
sexy character being almost killed by her lover. But wait! Before that has
its chance to play out, the Blonde Portrait woman kills him , again? Then
the Blonde Woman starts making out w/Barbara's Character Elizabeth. Cue the
'BOW-CHICKA-BOW-BOW' - Music, please!
While this is
happening, Mss. Steele's character grabs from a nearby Book what looks to be
a sharp 'letter-opener' and stabs her other female 'side-piece' lover and
kills her. So now the Writer guy, who still single, or is he, wants to
forget about the wager/contest to survive the night in 'Blood Castle' and is
told to hurry and escape by Elizabeths/Babs character
if he wants to
survive, so he follows her to the underground mausoleum, then after
hesitation to the front door and all the while trying to drag her w/him
outside!She
tells him she will never leave cuz of the whole uh, she's already a dead
thing. She then falls to the ground in the front yard graveyard and then
turns to bone or DITA should say a skull wrapped in clothing. He then
carries it onto to the front gate where he first came in, all the while all
the ghosts of the castle are following and telling him they need
his blood to come back next year or they'll permanently die, never to come
back. That's why they call it 'CASTLE OF BLOOD', my little
'coffin-creepers!'
For 'THE MORE
YOU KNOW Clip' ,Click here, Babe>
https://youtu.be/GD6qtc2_AQA
Once the handsome
single writer makes it the gate and goes out he leans up against the wrought
iron gate and............... and he is ....................??????? W-H-A-T?
You surely know by now after all these years here in 'DITA's-DEN',, that
DITA almost never tells the ending!
So get to Clicking on
the 'DVD-Icon' to get your own classic horror Copy tonight, Hon or Simply
Stream it now on Amazon-Prime or 'TUBI' with a giant bowl of popcorn
w/lots of butter and 'spider-sprinkles' and a couple of 'pumpkin-spice'
Carmel Apples, just for two w/the lights off, a fire blazing in the fire
place and enjoy another italian-horror classic from the unmeasurable
infamous gore-juss gothic beauty Miss BARBARA STEELE!
DITA had never seen
this horror delight and thoroughly enjoyed viewing it for the first time in
good ole black & white w/'Vamp-Hubby';B.J. near by and our wonderful
Doggie;'CHILLING CHINA' running around all the while looking for
'Scooby-Snacks'. DITA is one lucky ghoul-gal to have these three souls in my
life,of which don't forget our daughter; 'Pamela-Scream!'
Before DITA forgets
their was one scene that I will put on my 'DITA's Things-2-Look-4 List';
witch is the scene where the Writer Man character tries to kill the male
'side-piece' lover with a gun even though he was one of the walking-dead
already. During this scene he is chasing him on the stairs and the ghost
lover keeps over dramatically dodging and weaving and ducking in the
weirdest way that made Dear Old DITA laugh! Watch for it!!!
I,
DITA DIRT NAP gives this frightening BARBARA STEELE Flick; 'CASTLE OF BLOOD'
a Score of 2 and Half Skulls Out Of A 3 Skulls score, almost perfect but
doesn't equal the thrills of her films like; 'NIGHTMARE CASTLE', 'BLACK
SUNDAY', 'THE GHOST', 'THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH' and others but 'IS'
'Must-See' viewing for this just started 'Halloween-Season!'
Until Next Week, I
Blow you October 'Chainsaw-Kisses',
DITA
("PEEK-A-BOO') DIRT NAP
Contact DITA DIRT NAP @ DDN1965@LIVE.COM
but Please write; DITA in the Subject line, cuz I wanna hear from you my
little shock-tober spider-bites!
As usual here are some
'DITA-Suggested' Sites to look at as Follows;
www.thenewbev.com In fact my little Blood Bags ,
DITA & RENFIELD will be here a lot this entire month of October as they have
some great movies showing for the season. We will be incognito of course.
We already went to see at the NEW BEVERLY CINEMA 'ABBOTT & COSTELLO in 'HOLD
THAT GHOST' as well as a 'Grindhouse Night' WILLIAM CASTLE Double Feature
which including a 'DITA-Fave; 'I SAW WHAT YOU DID w/JOAN CRAWFORD as well as
this weekend's; 'CARTOON CLUB' The Halloween-Edition! Click here, Dear>
https://youtube.com/shorts/XfDNhulmkvM?si=XICW_jA8U-Zzl6gL
www.halloweenalliance.com
www.electricduskdrivein.com
(In LA,CA. DITA is a Fan!)
www.radiohalloween.com
www.facebook.com/DJDugGraves
(Listen to the 'DUG GRAVES RADIO-HORROR SHOW Every Friday Night!!! DITA
LIKE-Y!)
www.spookyworld.com
www.mymoviemonsters.com is the
home of Scary Monsters Magazine and your online source for classic monster,
horror, fantasy and sci-fi magazines, collectibles, models, figures, movies,
and more.
www.lahauntedhayride.com
(Hey Kids, ELVIRA has a NEW Horrifically-Good Haunted Attraction here
called; 'ELVIRA'S TRICK OR TREAT MAYHEM' along with;'ELVIRA'S POP-UP SHOP'
and even her Dog Gonk. DITA says; CHECK IT OUT! See ELVIRA's Clip from her
Appearance there last month here>
https://youtube.com/shorts/XroHeo1HzuU?si=cvPWO9xE3RIUXf9o
THIS REVIEW
DEDICATED TO THE 'HORROR-ICON'; BARBARA STEELE WHO DITA DIRT NAP WOULD LOVE
TO DO AN ONLINE INTERVIEW WITH SOMEDAY!
HELLO, BARBARA. E-Mail Dear Old DITA DIRT NAP for an Online Interview done
thru e-mailed Questions, then you send ur answers as I am a Huge Fan.
NOW TO MY DITA-Fans; THANK YOU EVER SO FOR HAVING ME BACK! I've missed you
all so very much here in 'DITA's-DEN!' XOXO, Hon!
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