Dracula in the Castle of Terror
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dracula in the Castle of Terror |
| Original title | Nella stretta morsa del ragno |
| Country of production | Italy , Germany , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 109 (German v. 97) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Antonio Margheriti (as Anthony M. Dawson ) |
| script |
Bruno Corbucci Giovanni Grimaldi |
| production | Giovanni Addessi |
| music | Riz Ortolani |
| camera |
Guglielmo Mancori Sandro Mancori |
| cut | Otello Colangeli |
| occupation | |
| |
Dracula in the Castle of Terror (original title: Nella stretta morsa del ragno ) is an international co-production horror film by Antonio Margheriti . A shortened version of the film was shown in cinemas in German-speaking countries on March 16, 1972.
action
After Edgar Allan Poe, confused and exhausted by nightmarish experiences, meets the journalist Alan Foster in an inn, who questions the truth of his stories, he challenges him to spend the following night in the castle of Lord Blackwood, his companion; no one left this alive the next morning. Foster agrees. In the course of the night he gets deeper and deeper into the vortex of experiences of a supernatural nature, witnessing numerous murders in the past that took place in the rooms of the castle. He falls in love with Elisabeth Dollister, whom he gets to know and who seems to be the only real being. Led by Carmus, who is himself a ghost, Foster gradually understands the whole story of vampirism, murders and accidents, but loses connection with reality more and more. At the last second, he and Elisabeth escape from the building to the property's cemetery before she too turns out to be a mirage. With the first rays of sun of the day he reaches the gate, where he is pierced by an iron hook.
criticism
The lexicon of international films judged with little conviction that the “average horror film” was “more involuntarily funny than scary”. The Segnalazioni Cinematografiche , on the other hand, wrote more positively, “the constant atmosphere of nightmare and fear is kept in balance by a sure director.” Christian Keßler writes that director Margheriti could not find any new sides in the color remake of his 1964 Danza Macabra , on the contrary, he eliminated the color the otherworldly shudder of the original and lamented plush sex insoles.
Remarks
The score was released as LP on RCA SP 8037.
Web links
- Web of the Spider in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon.it
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dracula in the Castle of Terror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche, Vol.LXXI, 1971
- ↑ Christian Keßler: The wild eye . Meitingen 1997, p. 35
- ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film Vol. 4, dal 1970 al 1979, tomo 2, MZ . Rome 1996, p. 77