Bloody Pit of Horror

1965 [ITALIAN]

Action / Crime / Horror / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 21% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 21% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 2593 2.6K

photographer delusion castle murder torture chamber torture

Plot summary

A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.

Director

Massimo Pupillo Photo
Massimo Pupillo

Top cast

Mickey Hargitay Photo
Mickey Hargitay as Travis Anderson
Alfredo Rizzo Photo
Alfredo Rizzo as Daniel Parks
Gino Turini Photo
Gino Turini as Anderson's Henchman #1
Femi Benussi Photo
Femi Benussi as Annie
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793.98 MB
1280*682
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.81 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 2
1.44 GB
1920*1024
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.81 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tracyfigueira 5 / 10

so it's not Shakespeare . . .

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.
Reviewed by Witchfinder-General-666 6 / 10

The Crimson Executioner Will... Entertain You Immensely!

"Il Boia Scarlatto" aka. ("Bloody Pit Of Horror") must be one of the cheesiest Italian Horror films ever made, and yet (or, more precisely, therefore) it is about as much fun as a film can get for my fellow lovers of Horror from Bella Italia. This was made in a time when Italian Gothic Horror was at its peak - and while a variety of genuine Italian Gothic masterpieces was brought to screen around that time (such as Margheriti's "Danza Macabra" and "The Virgin of Nuremberg", Caiano's "Nightmare Castle", everything that Mario Bava made...), director Massimo Pupillo came up with goofy, but incredibly fun productions such as "5 tombe per un medium" (aka. "Cemetary of The Living Dead", an absolute priority on my list of films that I have yet to see) and this "Bloody Pit Of Horror". Pupillo's films have since gained a certain cult-status among Italian Horror enthusiasts, and this film illustrates why. While "Bloody Pit Of Horror" is an immensely cheesy film that, in spite of a cool Castle setting, has zero scare moments, it is very imaginative in terms of (nowadays demure) sleaze and nasty torturing devices. Several centuries ago, a dispiteous mass murderer, the Crimson Executionner, was put to death with one of his own gruesome devices. In present time (1965) a couple of people - a photographer, an editor, a writer and several sexy chicks - are looking for a castle to make photos for a Horror book. We all know how (cheesy low-budget Horror) fate is - they happen to enter the castle where the Crimson Executioner was executed centuries ago...The film stars Mickey Hargitay, Jayne Mansfield's muscle-man husband, whose acting skills are not exactly awe-inspiring. The performances are generally awful, but that only makes the film more fun. The film begins with a Marquis de Sade quote, and the castle setting is awesome. The crimson executioner must be one of the goofiest (and most hilarious) villains ever in a Horror flick - He wears a ridiculous red hood and only talks about himself in the third-person ("The Crimson Executioner will torture you"). His evil deeds are accompanied by a stereotypically goofy 'eerie' score that resembles the "Treehouse Of Horror" theme from the Simpsons. The torturing devices are actually very imaginative, I don't wanna spoil the fun so I won't give a description. "Il Boia Scarlatto" guarantees pure fun and is an absolute must see for my fellow Italian Horror buffs and lovers of amusing trash. If this film doesn't put a smirk on your face, you lack humor entirely! Enjoy!
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