Director: Mario Bava
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti, Antonio Cantafora, Umberto Raho,
Plot: A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
Mario Bava and Italian genre film: Horror
The visual master Mario Bava virtually invented the Italian horror film, influencing generations of filmmakers who followed and built on his stylistic and thematic example. Arrow video has been releasing a series of impressive editions of […]