Bloody Pit of Horror(1965) Movie Review

Trailer here.

Bloody Pit of Horror is a 1965 horror movie directed by Massimo Pupillo and starring Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi and Luisa Baratto.

The film begins with a man called the Crimson Executioner. He is going to be executed and he swears revenge. He is put into a box with spikes and he dies. There is a seal placed on the box. His castle is where his evil deeds were performed. Years pass and the castle is abandoned. Some people come to see it. They look around. They are there because they are going to take photographs there. The owner is Travis Anderson(Hargitay) and he agrees to their taking pictures in his castle. The group are a writer called Rick(Brandi), the publisher, Mr. Parks, Edith(Baratto), who is his assistant, the photographer, Dermott and some models.

One of them gets killed in an accident. Others start to die when they see a man with a red hood. Travis talks to the group and he tells them about the Crimson Executioner and what happened. He tells them that he came to the castle for solitude. He sees Edith and he is drawn to her. The group find an iron maiden and they open it, only to find one of the models in it. She is dead. They realise the first death was no accident. Rick sends Dermott to get help. It turns out that Travis and Edith were engaged in the past. He was an actor. He disappeared from the public eye. Rick and Edith find one of the models caught in a web and a spider is coming for her. They can't save her. Rick tells Edith to escape. She and one of the others try to get out. Rick gets knocked out by a henchman.

Travis and Edith talk and he informs her that he is the Crimson Executioner reborn. He is evil. Dermott is dead. Rick is being tortured but he escapes. He fights the henchman. Edith tells Rick that Travis has the remaining group in the dungeon. More of them die. Travis takes Edith and ties her up. He is going to burn her. Rick appears and there is a scuffle. Travis gets impaled on his own poisoned trap. Rick frees Edith and they leave.

This is a fun film. There isn't too much in the way of scares of course. It has a decent cast and the story is okay. This is a cheaply made film but that doesn't really matter if you don't expect too much. I will give this a 4/10.