The Castle of the Living Dead

How much shock can the human brain endure before it cracks?

Horror
90 min     6.1     1964     France

Overview

Count Drago invites over entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans!

Reviews

CinemaSerf wrote:
At first sight, this looks remarkably humdrum, but it's a bit better than that. Christopher Lee's outwardly benign "Count Drago" invites a travelling troupe of performers to stay and perform at his castle. Before long, things start going drastically wrong for them. All humankind is reflected in this film - we have a witch, a dwarf, a deaf mute and lots of creatures that look like the product of the taxidermist's art - but are they really? It's eerily told, very much in the Hammer mould, this story - with quite a bit of suspense as we gradually get to the truth. Keep an eye out for Donald Sutherland as the policeman with a little added extra.

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