HCW: Nightmare Castle
Date Watched: January 13, 2013
Date Released: July 16, 1965
Starring: Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Line
Running Time: 101 minutes
Rating: 2 out of 5
Another Italian-English-dubbed flick. I think. Sometimes it seemed dubbed, sometimes it seemed to be in English with a horrible audio track. I don’t know.
Stephen Arrowsmith finds his wife Muriel doing the dirty with the gardener David in the greenhouse. He chains them up, beats them, only to find out that his wife will leave her fortune to her step-sister when she dies. He kills them anyway. I’m not entirely sure how he killed them – there was some dripping liquids and then a bright light. Yeah, I have no idea what that was, but it was accompanied by loud organ music.
Arrowsmith burns his wife and her lover and makes them into potting soil. Not kidding.
When we meet Jenny – played by Barbara Steele, who played the wife also – she’s already married her ex-brother-in-law. As soon as Jenny enters the house, we realize that Arrowsmith has a lover of his own, Solange. Solange is not happy to say the least when Jenny shows up as the new Mrs. Arrowsmith.
Jenny starts getting locked in random rooms and screaming at random intervals, seeing things, hearing things. Arrowsmith calls Dr. Joyce, Jenny’s psychiatrist or whatever, because she seems to be losing her marbles. Jenny recounts one of her dreams to Dr. Joyce and they end up in the greenhouse, searching for an earring. They find Muriel’s earring and for some reason Dr. Joyce decides to tell Arrowsmith and Solange about it. Of course they make it seem like Jenny is a kleptomaniac and forgets where she puts things.
Possessed by Muriel, Jenny slices Arrowsmith’s cheek with a scalpel and makes out with Dr. Joyce. He convinces her to spend some time out of the castle. Clearly Arrowsmith and Solange have to come up with a plan before they leave in the morning.
Dr. Joyce takes out the dagger that's been pinning David and Muriel's hearts together, releasing their ghosts. They kill Arrowsmith and before they can make their slow - excruciatingly slow - descent onto Jenny, the good doctor throws their hearts into the fire. They go poof and Dr. Joyce picks Jenny up in his arms, rushing her outside.
I was really excited about this one because of the great, great plot, but it fell flat for me.
Date Released: July 16, 1965
Starring: Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Line
Running Time: 101 minutes
Rating: 2 out of 5
Another Italian-English-dubbed flick. I think. Sometimes it seemed dubbed, sometimes it seemed to be in English with a horrible audio track. I don’t know.
Stephen Arrowsmith finds his wife Muriel doing the dirty with the gardener David in the greenhouse. He chains them up, beats them, only to find out that his wife will leave her fortune to her step-sister when she dies. He kills them anyway. I’m not entirely sure how he killed them – there was some dripping liquids and then a bright light. Yeah, I have no idea what that was, but it was accompanied by loud organ music.
Arrowsmith burns his wife and her lover and makes them into potting soil. Not kidding.
When we meet Jenny – played by Barbara Steele, who played the wife also – she’s already married her ex-brother-in-law. As soon as Jenny enters the house, we realize that Arrowsmith has a lover of his own, Solange. Solange is not happy to say the least when Jenny shows up as the new Mrs. Arrowsmith.
Jenny starts getting locked in random rooms and screaming at random intervals, seeing things, hearing things. Arrowsmith calls Dr. Joyce, Jenny’s psychiatrist or whatever, because she seems to be losing her marbles. Jenny recounts one of her dreams to Dr. Joyce and they end up in the greenhouse, searching for an earring. They find Muriel’s earring and for some reason Dr. Joyce decides to tell Arrowsmith and Solange about it. Of course they make it seem like Jenny is a kleptomaniac and forgets where she puts things.
Possessed by Muriel, Jenny slices Arrowsmith’s cheek with a scalpel and makes out with Dr. Joyce. He convinces her to spend some time out of the castle. Clearly Arrowsmith and Solange have to come up with a plan before they leave in the morning.
Dr. Joyce takes out the dagger that's been pinning David and Muriel's hearts together, releasing their ghosts. They kill Arrowsmith and before they can make their slow - excruciatingly slow - descent onto Jenny, the good doctor throws their hearts into the fire. They go poof and Dr. Joyce picks Jenny up in his arms, rushing her outside.
I was really excited about this one because of the great, great plot, but it fell flat for me.
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