Castle Of The Living Dead

Castle Of The Living Dead,is more than a great old movie of 1960's,it's Christopher Lee is good here,his acting is good as it can be.Gothic Horror of the past is hard to find theses days.Please take time & go back to time of good story telling without all the gore & blood on the screen of today horror movies.Scare me as much as yesterday as today horror movies.Castle Of The Living Dead,still works for me,5 stars,I give it.The copy here on DVD is ok, wish it was much better,still worth the money to me to buy.

This movie is worth buying due to at least four considerations: (1) Christopher Lee plays a nice character (the scene in which he appears for the first time and introduce himself to his "guests" should remind you his appearance in the classic Terence Fisher's Dracula!), (2) the movie is a good representative of the Italian gothic cinema from the 1960's, (3) the story offers a variation in the theme about a mad scientist and the living dead, and (4) is a must have for terror collectionists of these era. Note, however that this Sinister Cinema release is a burned copy, may be from some VHS material. The transfer is ok (the audio is a bit more dissapointing) and good enough until a more professional release is available. Good for the price.

This seems like a copy someone made themselves and burned to DVD. This has to be the worst presentation of any film I've ever seen. That's really unfortunate because the movie is actually quite good. The DVD boots to a low quality static menu listing the contents of the disc. I'm guessing most folks that aren't too tech savvy will be stumped at this point. It's not clear which entry is the movie at first. The movie is actually the last entry. The video quality is almost unwatchable. My wife and I enjoy watching these old films and call this type of presentation a "crinkly crack" since that's what you get on the screen or thru the speakers and sometimes both. The movie itself is a pleasant surprise for Christopher Lee Fans.

We have renamed this movie "Nick the Hero" because the character Nick, who is played by Antiono de Martino, is the most amazing actor in the film.. De Martino is a little person, but he has an amazing screen presence. His character has a heart of gold and does all that he can to save Laura. The double role for Donald Sutherland is awesome. We had no idea that he played the witch as well until we checked the credits after we watched it. The only complaint is that Chris's makeup is ghastly. He looks like a 1990s death metal band vocalist. The castle is super creepy too. Overall a fun movie with a couple surprises. Gaia Germani is an amazing Audrey Hepburn look alike. It shocked me when I discovered that it wasn't really Miss Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's

There are B/w movies that are a classic and others that are just down right corney, and just because it has a majar star in it, or I should say just because the leading role is held by someone that also has the leading role in a good classic film, Does not mean that the movie is going to be any good. This film falls in the middle with me.Three stars.I will view it again given the time and see if my review changes. Sometimes you can go into things expecting one thing and getting another, and thus you don't give it a fair review.

Castle Of The Living Dead is a interesting piece of gothic Italian horror from 1964. Starring Christopher Lee and Donald Sutherland. Its the 19th century and somewhere in France a band of gypsy circus performers travel to a old castle to entertain for the Count there. One by one Count Drago kills off the group for his own experiments in preserving the dead without chemicals or traditional mummification, using a black magic of sorts. The movie isn't so much about the plot as it is the strange and interesting characters. You have Donald Sutherland playing two different roles. One, a old hag/witch who pop ups throughout the film spouting off cryptic warnings and second, a French police Sgt who is humorous in his mannerism and dialog. Then you have the band of gypsies made up of a dwarf, a mute, a harlequin, a beautiful woman and several other performers who all seem to have their own quirky personality. And of course, there is the great Christopher Lee as Count Drago who is always fun to watch and is as evil as ever. The film has that gothic look that only Italian films seemed to be able to achieve back then and a charm onto itself. Its not one of Christopher Lee better known film nor his best, but its worth buying this and has a great re-watch factor.

I like this movie a lot. I ordered it because I'm a big Christopher Lee fan since he was young and I was just a kid. Also there's another film made in the early 1990's at this same castle with the large crazy statuary on the grounds. This was also Donald Sutherland's first movie. He plays both an old witch and a policeman in it. I definitely prefered him as the witch, reminded me of something out of Monty Python. The little dwarf was cool, too, as was the cute kitty who likes to drink cognac. I'd love someday to see this movie cleaned up and made to fit modern t.v. screens. But it still was a real pleasure I've watched it several times.

Ok, so this one isn't that bad....but you have to ask yourself would you watch this is you weren't a Christopher Lee fan and the answer is probably going to be a resounding "No". The idea is fairly original,a villain who embalms his victims" for his "live theatre", but the film sags in places from far too much padding which includes overlong scenes of a theatre troupe performing their show. Also the quality of the print on this release is pretty awful, which adds to the low, low budget feel of the film. The print is badly scratched, dull (lacking the crispness of a really good B&W movie) and it is also presented in a badly panned and scanned format. (Ok I'm being picky here but ristopher Le in stle of the Living Dea.) And if you want to see really bad acting, Donald Sutherland really stands out amongst the cast of unknowns, getting to giving not one but two awful performances as he appears as two characters for some unexplained reason. From these performances you'd never guess that within a few years he'd be a major Hollywood star. Christopher Lee is, as usual, on top form as Count Drago. Overall Castle Of The Living Dead is a nice idea but badly done.