It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Gothic Horror rises from the grave with this tepid tale with a plot you've perhaps watched several times before, maybe. I don't know you.It plays out like many a gothic horror - a recently graduated scientist (and woman - progress!) passes through a village looking for a lift to the nearby mysterious and creepy castle. Strangely, no one wants to give her a lift and everyone's too busy mourning over the coffin of 'another victim' to help her. Only one kind man gives her a lift, only to tell her she'll be killed in the castle before trying to rape her. She gets away, however, but doesn't get an nice welcome at the castle. The Count there is carrying on research his brother was doing before the brother turned himself into a kebab and died. The new Count isn't happy that his new assistant is a woman, but she convinces him that her credentials are as legit as any man's, so he reluctantly lets her stay. The lady he lives with isn't so happy, however. This film was really boring so let's get it over with - Girls are going missing and turning up dead and everyone's blaming the Count, the scientist lady falls in love with him and we spend too much time with the police getting hassled by the citizens of the town to do something about the killings. There's also a twist so obvious that you'll receive and email about it a week before you watch the film and very little happens until about an hour of the film has passed.If you want to watch a film with a similar plot, but also completely mental, watch the 1974 film Mania.

WARNING: SPOILERS I saw this film under the video title "Blood Castle"..this is a story about two brothers, one is real smart and knows a lot about chemistry, he is also a Count (whatever that means) and lives in a big castle in euro-horror-landia, or somewheres..unfortunately, he also has a problem - he was in a terrible accidental (?) fire and got horribly burned and disfigured, also (if you pay close attention towards the end he reveals that) apparently his tallyho was burnt off and, left without a smidgen, he is unable to, as the parlayance of the time went, "make it with the chicks". His brother, on the other hand, doesn't know much 'bout chemistry, however his tallyho is intact and functioning, and he is somewhat of a pretty-boy/ ladies' man/ lothario-type, at least compared to his crispy brother who is exiled to a supposedly "crumbling" section of the castle. Well, the two brothers come to a sort of arrangement: Ygor, the crispy chemist, will share with his brother the secrets of chemistry, in hopes that a formula can be found to restore him to a non-crispy state; Yanos, the pretty face, meanwhile, will use his good lucks and functioning johansen to go out and make it with all the local beauties. Problem is, all the local beauties keep turning up mutilated and dead just after being with Yanos, and of course he is prime suspect #1. Oh yeah, we're all supposed to think that Ygor is dead from the fire and Yanos is trying to reanimate his corpse, but since Ygor's crispy hands (and eventually face) keep showing up throughout, it's a little difficult to manage. Of course there is a beautiful young woman (Erna Schuerer) who comes to the castle as a chemist/ assistant and of course, falls for Count Yanos, as does every other female within 100 mile radius, apparently. There is some female nudity. I enjoyed this film even though it effectively removes all suspense as it goes along, rather than building it, still if you play along it is fairly entertaining, but I am surely more tolerant than some would be...

(aka: BLOOD CASTLE or SCREAM OF THE DEMON)*spoiler*This was a drive-in feature, co-billed with THE VELVET VAMPIRE. A Spanish-Italian co-production where a series of women in a village are being murdered around the same time a local count named Yanos Dalmar is seen on horseback, riding off with his 'man-eating' dog behind him.The townsfolk already suspect he is the one behind it all and want his castle burned down. The murders first began around the time Count Yanos' older brother, Count Igor Dalmar was horribly burned and killed in a lab accident.Then a woman Ivanna (Erna Schuer) that Igor hired before his death to assist him in his experiments shows up. Yanos agrees to hire her in place of his brother and together they seek the formulae for the regeneration of dead cells. Yanos wants to bring Igor's charred corpse back to life.But of course Igor is still alive (although horribly burned) and stalking and killing the women in the village. We see his char-broiled face appear at various points in the film, so we know he's still alive, making the whole thing seem a little bit too obvious.Igor meets another fiery end when he gets into a fight with Yanos over Ivanna, with the burning candles falling on to the same bed that Igor stumbles on to, meeting yet another, final char-broiled end.The Retromedia DVD is taken from a VHS source and looks quite grainy and bad. Other than an even scratchier trailer, no other extras are included. Although it has a nice, creepy Spanish castle and good atmospherics, I found it to be fairly boring and predictable, with no excitement or mystery, whatsoever. 3 out of 10.

Ivana, a chemist, is hired by Baron Janos Dolmer to work in his secret laboratory in his big castle. The castle is located outside a small village, in which a series of brutal murders of young women has been committed. The townspeople all suspect Janos and his big doberman dogs (or is it rotweilers?). Ivana moves into the castle and pretty soon strange things starts to happen. Nobody of Janos' staff seems to want her around, her drink gets spiked and she has nightmares of a torture chamber in the cellar. Or is it really a dream? Janos himself is a bit suspicious, and the experiment he wants Ivana to participate in is far from normal. It's quiet a good plot, and the characters are interesting. There are some logical gaps and the `scientific' discussions held between Ivana and Janos are laughable. The castle is beautiful and the atmosphere in the movie is very gothic. The flick features some nudity and sex.I'd give this one a 6 out of 10. I'd recommend `La plus longue nuit du diable' by Jean Brismée instead if you're looking for an excellent 70's gothic horror movie.