Steineded How sad is this?

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

dougdoepke After this pile of dreck, I took a shower. I guess an orgy of sadism like this has its fans. Not me. I do like a good horror movie, but this has none of those artful qualities. Instead it's an endless round of pain, screams, blood, fights and torture, mainly torture. Oh sure, there's the expected skin show, but given the context, it's about as sexy as a kick in the groin. I guess by filming in Italy, the producers could get more bang for their ten bucks, while the castle and surrounding landscape do produce scenic grabbers. But the glowing Technicolor is better suited to cartoons, while the expressionless dubbing is about as good as mine. Meanwhile, muscleman Hargitay does little more than take off his shirt and roll in a vat of glistening oil. All in all, I guess you could say I didn't like the movie, and would only recommend it to folks who like politicians' speeches. Meanwhile, I think I'll catch another round of the great I Walked With A Zombie.

knightox The very idea of finding a deserted castle in the middle of no where was funny enough for starters. Then everything they(the camera crew and models) found was intact, barely covered with dust and well lighted? You can't even find a ghost town that well preserved in the American West. And then the Hugh Hefner wannbe boss wanted the models to continue camera shooting after the first mysterious death, accidental or not? Uh-oh Scooby! And things just get better and cheesier from here! I felt this movie was much more comedy than actual horror. The Italian director's sense of campy humor of the 1960's was quite evident. I kept waiting for Adam West and Burt Ward to jump out and save the day. However, I guess it couldn't have been titled "Bloody Pit of Horror" could it? It's a whole lot of fun to watch but know the special effects aren't there. There's more on the original Star Trek series. The blood might as well have been shaken ketchup and the fight scenes aren't quite the skill level of the WWE but hey, it was made back in '65! I just wish I could have heard the classic "Batman" television series music along with "BIFF!","POW!","ZAM!" and seen the caped crusaders at the film's finish. It would have made a great surprise ending IMO!?! Oh well, one can only dream. Oh yes, I loved the reoccurring line "My perfect body!". HA! Good stuff.

samhill5215 Surely nobody goes into this laughable cheese-fest expecting to see a quality horror film. Even by Italian standards - Bava and Argento excepted - this is utter nonsense. The horror part is well, what horror part? The plot is utterly predictable, no surprises there. The dialog is just as predictable. As for the scenery we are treated to some spectacular vistas (they caught my wife's fancy long enough to pause in passing and in her determination to avoid taking part in my passion for horrible films) and the castle where the action takes place is really cool! So what else is there to recommend this? It's all about perfect bodies, a good number of them, enough to keep members of both sexes entertained. Mickey Hargitay who plays our villain has, as he so proudly informs the audience often enough, THE perfect body. He puts the rest of us puny males to shame with the utter certainty that no matter how hard we try we'll never reach that level of physical beauty. On the other side of the gender barrier the women are equally gorgeous. They are all curvaceous, luscious, mouth-watering eye candy to awaken the man-beast in every male out there. Bear in mind there is no real nudity. The closest we get to risqué scenes is just the hint of the top part of nipples. Otherwise it's all designed to tantalize the male spectator with the prospect of revealing the hidden parts without doing so. How delicious! Well, perhaps not for recently pubescent and inexperienced teens. For them it might be too frustrating.One final point. The hero is the exact opposite of our gorgeous villain. A Joe Pesci look-alike, he's not exactly my idea of a hero and he in fact gets beat up pretty regularly until he finally prevails with strategic karate chops. Makes you wonder why he doesn't use them before he gets punched out within an inch of his life, but I digress. The heroine is clearly above his league in the looks department but also not as sexy or exotic as any one of the other four women. So I'm not sure but maybe the producers were trying to insert a moral about looks and death but who knows? Any way you look at it this movie will keep you chuckling and salivating neither of which is a bad thing.

tracyfigueira This movie has everything: beautiful women, great set design, garish color photography, cool music, and quite possibly the worse acting performance in history by the late great Mickey Hargitay, the legendary Hungarian body builder who was the husband of Jayne Mansfield and the father of Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.") He plays a head case obsessed with the "harmony" of his "perfect body," and fears the "contamination" of "inferior beings," especially women. When a group of cover girls, their photographer, writer, editor, and crew break into his castle in Italy to take cover pictures for upcoming paperbacks, he assumes the persona of "The Crimson Executioner," a centuries old serial killer executed in 1648. The ensuing torture scenes are pretty intense, but there's little actual blood and gore. My favorite scene was the girl tied to the giant spider web. Although allegedly based on the writings of the Marquis de Sade, "Bloody Pit of Horror" is actually quite tame by the standards of today's torture porn and not to be confused with more graphic (and disturbing) efforts like Pasolini's "Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom." "Bloody Pit of Horror" is good if not exactly clean fun for lovers of cheesy horror, scantily clad models, and really bad acting. The production values are about par for an early "Doctor Who" episode, and the fight-scenes are straight out of the old "Batman" series. More proof that the Italians are the world's greatest purveyors of crap cinema.