Bloody Pit of Horror

Description

Seeking a gothic background for a horror photo shoot, five sexy cover girls and a handful of photographers break into what they assume is an uninhabited castle and are soon taking a series of macabre stills in its dungeon. But--surprise!--residing in the castle is demented actor Travis Anderson (Mickey Hargitay) who thinks he's the reincarnation of The Crimson Executioner, a 17th century madman whose body is entombed in the castle's iron maiden. When Travis recognizes one of the models as his former fiancee, his already unhinged mind completely snaps. He gleefully subjects the trespassers to a variety of bizarre and elaborately-conceived tortures: "The Crimson Executioner cries out for blood!"

Customer Reviews:

Terror in the Dastardly Clutches of the Black Castle of Death.......2006-12-10

Many many years ago, I was so inspired by this film that I wrote and then filmed, with the aid of some college buddies, a sequel to Bloody Pit of Horror, featuring a relative of the Crimson Executioner who called himself the Amber Avenger. My film was not great, however it did pay homage to what I thought was one of the greatest horror...forget that...One of the greatest MOVIES ever made. It had everything. Well everything except a good script and excellent acting. The Crimson Executioner is probably one of my favorite film characters of all time. Sure it was stupid, but this film was fun. The fodder for the bad guy were horrible...You had to cheer for the Executioner. What would make this film better? A sequel!!!.. It screams for a sequel. It screams for a viewing. Watch it! Savor it! Love it! How could the Academy overlook this one?

Bloody Pit Of Horror.......2006-10-29

Hargitay is completely over the top, convinced he is the reincarnation of the ' Crimson Executioner.' Committing his Marquis de Sade - style atrocities on a band of showgirls and their managers. Violent redo of, ' Playgirls And The Vampire ' from a few years earlier. Sadists take note.

Masterpiece of Unintentional Humor.......2006-06-30

The movie begins with film of a strangely garbed figure being led by guards to a medieval torture device called an "iron maiden" where he is placed in to die in.

The movie then cuts to over 300 years later after the castle and its dungeons itself has been "cursed," the castle had lain empty although someone did shell out the dough for a parking lot to the place. Finally, a publisher of tasteless books, some glamorous models, some photographers, a hanger-on or two and a hack horror writer show up at the castle to use it as a backdrop for taking photographs for book jackets. Upon becoming frustrated that nobody answers the doorbell (of a type that did not exist over 300 years ago), they break into the castle.

They are then confronted by the castle owner and his servants and are ordered to leave at once. However, at the last minute, the castle owner spots his ex-fiancee amongst the girls and he relents and says that they can spend the night there and take all the pictures they want. He also tells them to stay away from the dungeons and, sure enough, that prohibition is violated and the tomb of the Crimson Executioner is opened and the bad guy's "evil soul" is released. This sends the owner of the castle, the mysteriously vanished Hollywood actor Travis Anderson, who made his name as a "muscleman in costume films" into a psychological spiral at the end of which he proclaims himself to be the Crimson Executioner complete with an outfit similar to that of the original.

At first, his crimes are assumed by the publisher as "accidents." However, the hack writer, Rick, deduces from the cut rope and a mysterious photographic image that murder is afoot. After both he and the ex-fiancee, Edith, find a model in a goofy spider web torture device, there is no doubt that Anderson is behind the crimes. Edith confronts Anderson with the accusation that he is "the murderer" and nice guy Travis slaps her down and rants about how he had "abandoned the world" because "the love of a woman" would have ruined the "harmony of my perfect body." To this Edith replies: "You, oh! You're an egotist!"

While this is going on, offstage, the servants of Travis Anderson aka The Crimson Executioner act as if nothing unusual is going on as they round up the other visitors and imprison them in the dungeons. All except Rick the hack writer. Inside the dungeons, there is an iron maiden, a human roaster, and other torture devices. These servants are dressed in striped T-Shirts reminiscent of the Penguin's minions in the old Batman TV series.

After The Crimson Executioner comes down to the dungeon, he stumbles from victim to victim in silly stylized demented hunchback-style movements. He also barks out such lines as:

"The harmony of my perfect body!"

and:

"The Crimson Executioner cries out for blood!"

Played by Mickey Hargitay, Travis Anderson aka The Cromson Executioner is quite possibly the single most verbose serial killer/psycho in film history. He says some of the most ridiculously over-blown lines in the history of film and he does it all with a straight face. That alone is most commendable.

Bloody Pit of Horror is a true masterpiece of unintentional comedy. If you have gotten sick and tired of the increasingly unfunny formula-driven things that Hollywood calls "movies," then this is a movie that's right for you.

Move Over Spiderman.......2006-03-31

Remember those super heroes from the golden age of comics:

The Green Hornet, Captain Marvel, The Flash, Starman ?

Well there's probably one you've never heard of:

The Crimson Executioner

He's sort of a combination of The Marquis de Sade, Mr. Universe, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Like the other super heroes he disguises his true identity with a mask. He also has quite a few assistants who wear striped tee shirts.

His torture chamber has a lot of the standard issue devices from the Inquisition: the Iron Maiden, several human roaster designs, and the old reliable rack.

But using his inventive powers he creates totally new torture devices such as a bunk bed with big skrews that comes down on top of people.

Unfortunately these devices are based on historical fact.

I don't want to reveal the exciting story line so I'll stop here.

Highly recommended.

Jeff Marzano

Recommended further viewing:

Horror Hotel
IT ! (The Terror From Beyond Space)
Invasion Of The Saucer Men
Not Of This Earth (original)
The Blob (with Steve McQueen)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
The Flesh Eaters
The Fly / The Return Of The Fly / The Curse Of The Fly
The Four Skulls Of Jonathan Drake
The Hideous Sun Demon
The Hypnotic Eye
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Indestructible Man
The Manster
The Thing (from another world)
The Thing That Couldn't Die
The Twilight Zone Collections

Um..........2006-03-13

This is a good movie!
It's pretty corny though.
The reason I'm giving this 1 star is because I saw this movie on a double disc old horror movie collection thing that had 8 old horror movies on it.
I got that dvd for only 5 bucks.
It was called horror classics.
If ya want ta see this movie,
just get that.
(If ya can find that dvd on Amazon.com, it might cost more, but I got that dvd at Fred Meyer.)

Average customer rating:

Terror in the Dastardly Clutches of the Black Castle of Death
Bloody Pit Of Horror
Masterpiece of Unintentional Humor
Move Over Spiderman
Um...

Bloody Pit of Horror
Starring: Mickey Hargitay , Walter Brandi , Luisa Baratto , Rita Klein , and Alfredo Rizzo
Director: Massimo Pupillo
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00008J2MJ
Release Date: 2003-04-15