One of the complaints about old horror movies I hear from people with no patience or ability to sit still for more than 5 minutes, like human beings, is that many of them contain long boring scenes of people creeping around old castles with nothing else happening. If you're also not a fan of that kind of non-action this probably will not be the movie for you since there are some long stretches where that goes down. It's your basic guy has to stay in a haunted house story and even the presence of Barbara Steele doesn't make this one all that special. A couple of unique things here are in the opening and closing segments you get Edgar Allen Poe just hanging out in a pub and being all goth-like and the ending is not a very happy one(unless you happen to be a ghost). This unfortunately is not enough for me to recommend this to anyone unless you're really into old slow-moving ghost movies. AKA CASTLE OF BLOOD
Adding to my negative feelings about this is that the DVD I have this on has a bunch of scenes that are in French with no subtitles which seems like a stupid way to release a movie.
Shown on TV in America under the title CASTLE OF TERROR.
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