Horror Castle (1963)
7/10
Nicely nasty!
15 April 2017
Mary moves from America to Germany to live in a castle with her husband Max, but on her first night there discovers her husband gone and in the medieval museum that occupies the first floor she discovers an Iron Lady containing a chick with her eyeballs poked out. Thus begins another mystery film set in a Gothic location.

Mary's all suspicious about her husband, and the museum attendant, played by a battle scarred Christopher Lee, and also the housekeeper. In fact Mary doesn't trust anyone at all, which is just as well as things get rather strange rather quickly in this house. Luckily this is the kind of house that benefits from meddling as there are about a million secret rooms and catacombs to be explored.

You see there's an exhibit about the Punisher, some relative of Max that used to torture and kill women for some reason. Is this guy back, as some characters seem to think? Or is Mary just being a muppet and imagining it all? You'll have to watch the film to see.

Full of many twists and a bit of gore (including a girl who's had her nose chewed off by a rat!) this is a really fast moving film that might be short on plot but isn't short on style, gore, or how tall Christopher Lee was in real life. I never guessed the culprit at all so credit to the film for that, and the crazy make up effects.
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