Castle of the Living Dead (Il castello dei morti vivi)

Wonderfully shot and loaded with crumbling castles, scythes, dark humor, taxidermy, theater troupes, cauldron stirring witches, eye trauma, gorgeous locations, a spattering of loneliness, and gorgeous black and white gothic atmosphere so rich I almost expected Barbara…

Ian West

i basically live for movies like this. largely forgotten and adrift in time, filmed in wind-drenched black & white, with locations that positively hum with atmosphere such that condensation starts to drip down your screen. it's the kind of movie that is exactly what you'd…

clare

HoopTober 24/31 ✔️4/4 Italian horror films ✔️1 Donald Sutherland film ✔️8 different decades: 1 from the 1960s A very creepy living dead premise, in a film that was excellent up until the last 1/2 hour… when unfortunately the story slowed down considerably & became kind of…

Penny_S

Greed (aka not wanting to starve) is grimly punished when a troupe of actors disregard the warnings of a wise woman they meet on the road and journey to Christopher Lee's 'Castle of the Living Dead' (aka lots of taxidermized animals in a sad mockery of life). This movie was…

The Horror of Marna Larsen

Castle of the Living Dead is undoubtedly a gorgeous movie to watch, due in large part to cinematographer Aldo Tonti’s top-notch work with B&W film stock and the flick’s use of locations, featuring plenty of amazing, massive stone statues and crumbling castles. Too bad the…

Dave Edwards

A tepid “guests being murdered at the castle” affair involving a traveling entertainment troupe invited to a count’s castle to perform. They don’t know his hobby is petrifying living things and they’re next on his list. Pretty dull but buoyed by Christopher Lee and brief…

Digital Press

A great Christopher Lee film hiding behind a generic title. Though it does make sense once you realize he's a taxidermist gone wild. Our story concerns a rag-tag group of traveling circus performers: a midget, a strong deaf/mute, a dangerous drunken Harlequin, and a brother…

threepenny

The cat instantly getting frozen makes me laugh every time 😂

vConqueror

Hooptober XI—1 Donald Sutherland film Macabre on paper, and realized quite well in its parting moments, but far more cartoonish and light than it has any right being. Christopher Lee’s conjured silent/eternal theater through poisoning/petrifying entities with a mad…

Corey