HE SOUGHT THE ULTIMATE IN HUMAN AGONY... One of the horror giant Mario Bava's biggest hits, Baron Blood returns to the all-stops-out Gothic atmosphere and the central theme of a witch's curse that fuelled his breakthrough film Black Sunday twelve years later. This time, the curse was placed on Baron Otto von Kleist, Austria's legendarily murderous 'Baron Blood', whose corpse is inadvertently revived when an ancient incantation is read out as a joke by a descendant and his girlfriend. Naturally, the Baron decides to carry on where he originally left off, with the help of an entire vault of elaborate torture devices. Jospeh Cotten (Citizen Kane, The Third Man) has a whale of a time as the deceptively charming Baron, and is given sterling support from Elke Sommer (Lisa and the Devil), who is chased through fog-shrouded alleyways in one of Bava's modst memorably atmospheric set-pieces.
Directed by Steve Millard (AKA Nick Millard) Brigitta is a film noir of the 1960's that has been re-mastered to show the animal desires that a young woman under drink can fall prey to. With excellent B&W photography and a jazz soundtrack this is a true film of the beatnik era. Brigitta lives on her own working in a monotonous job as a bank teller - that is until she becomes infatuated with the malignant charismatic Bize. After drinking a 'spiked' drink her strange passions and anima
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