the audience applauded

A lot of fun.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Christopher Lee is given top billing here. He's in the movie for maybe 3 minutes total and does nothing. His voice is dubbed, and he just looks stupid. I am beginning to hat this mans acting and choice of jobs. I recently watched all the Lee Dracula movies and his best attributes are his costume and stance, his British accent as Dracula is ridiculous and his dialogue is trash. Hammer was good for a couple of things, sets/color/lighting and music. Go watch some of the trash Lee appeared in the 70s. Real garbage. Very sad.Now to this movie. What we have here is a wife of a castle/museum owner wandering around. It started out mysterious and intriguing. Then nothing much happens. The husband is away most of the time. And Lee is there to show off his stupid scar. The story is somehow about a Nazi conspirator to kill Hitler who is deformed and now he's on a rampage to torture women, just as the new wife movies in. How convenient! I guess producers needed stores and they picked this one.The music is completely inappropriate. We have some kind of Bebop jazz number in a castle horror film, probably to invoke some kind of romance between the new wife and husband. Then there's the ridiculous horror tones when the wife is running around outside. The death scenes are nonsense. The makeup is trash. Lee was garbage. There's a real funny section when he climbs the side of the house, then rolls off and falls to the ground. I was hoping he was dead. But then, get this, and FBI agent, helps him and since they can't get in the house, they drive away to get help. Well, if you have a car, and you just tried to get in the castle by breaking down the door with your shoulder, maybe you can try crashing through the door with the car, rather than driving away for help. Maybe the cops can bring a battering ram, or have extra keys to the castle. Real stupidity in this film. There's a scene where the husband is trapped in a dungeon filling with water. This goes on for ½ hour. Finally, he miraculously breaks out and then saves his wife. And then we get the happy ending. Lee dies in a fire with the Nazi punisher. This is one stupid crappy movie. If you're a fan of Lee, DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE. If you're a fan of horror movies, or movies in general, or art, or life or anything, do not see this movie. The film makers had a budget. Sets, a freaking castle, some decent actors that were given crap dialogue, and this is what we get.The only reason to see this movie is to study it, then read the reviews of people who like/loved it, and then write a psychological paper on the human mind. Current IMDb rating is a joke at 5.9. This is a 1 star, nothing to see here. Garbage story/dialogue/dubbing/acting/scenes/music/sound effects/editing/just plain stupid movie. I will recommend another movie instead: Bloody Pit Of Horror. This is not a great film, but it is fun.

Mary moves from America to Germany to live in a castle with her husband Max, but on her first night there discovers her husband gone and in the medieval museum that occupies the first floor she discovers an Iron Lady containing a chick with her eyeballs poked out. Thus begins another mystery film set in a Gothic location.Mary's all suspicious about her husband, and the museum attendant, played by a battle scarred Christopher Lee, and also the housekeeper. In fact Mary doesn't trust anyone at all, which is just as well as things get rather strange rather quickly in this house. Luckily this is the kind of house that benefits from meddling as there are about a million secret rooms and catacombs to be explored.You see there's an exhibit about the Punisher, some relative of Max that used to torture and kill women for some reason. Is this guy back, as some characters seem to think? Or is Mary just being a muppet and imagining it all? You'll have to watch the film to see.Full of many twists and a bit of gore (including a girl who's had her nose chewed off by a rat!) this is a really fast moving film that might be short on plot but isn't short on style, gore, or how tall Christopher Lee was in real life. I never guessed the culprit at all so credit to the film for that, and the crazy make up effects.

Made four years before J. Lee Thompson's "Eye of the Devil" (produced by the British branch of MGM) and also taken from a literary source, "La vergine de Norimberga" has a similar story about a wife who decides to investigate the dark side of her husband's affairs while visiting the man's castle in an European village, and both are in the end realistic stories with a sinister facade. While the tale of the British movie is rooted on frightening manifestations of folklore and tradition in France, this one has a political secret behind the mystery and the horror in Germany. But the similarities vanish in the visuals, for "Eye of the Devil" is in black and white and has a cold leading lady (played by Scandinavian Deborah Kerr), in opposition to "The Virgin of Nuremberg" which is in vivid colors and led by a fiery protagonist (played by Mediterranean Rossana Podestà). Both women are brave characters and not precisely screaming queens, and although there are some screams here and there, they are moved by undaunted curiosity, decidedly firm in their quest to find the truth. Much in the vein of Roger Corman's Poe adaptations, Podestà wanders, runs and hides in corridors, torture chambers, dungeons and gardens, there are some miniatures that evoke Ulmer's fascinations with scale models, and a highly dramatic music provided by Riz Ortolani. See it.

Max Hunter, (Georges Riviere) gets married and takes his wife, Mary Hunter (Rossana Podesta) to his ancestral castle which contains a large collection of torture devices used in Medieval times. Max is away from his wife on business and Mary finds herself in a house where she finds dead people being killed under her own roof and a servant named Erich, (Christopher Lee) who has a deformed face and acts very strangely towards her. There is a scene where a young girl gets her nose chewed off by a rat and a man finds himself drowning in a basement room filling up with water. This film is full of surprises and we also see pictures of Adolph Hitler which takes the film into another direction. Nice entertainment film for Halloween night.