In a lonely castle owned by an aristocratic family, strange apparitions of a spirit occur, followed shortly by two terrifying murders. A macabre story of death and terror directed by the great Mario Bava, starring the horror icon of the 1960s and 1970s, Christopher Lee. The father of the Italian Gothic genre still amazes by directing a film with strong dreamlike elements, featuring some sequences bordering on sadomasochism, particularly audacious for the time (one above all the sequence in which the diabolical Kurt - Christopher Lee - savagely whips the beautiful and compliant Nevenka), which caused no few problems with censorship. The surprising final sequence seems to reveal, albeit in a rather ambiguous way, that everything we have witnessed has a rational explanation...
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