'Baron Blood' (1972) - Mario Bava.

The exquisitely evil aristocrat Baron Blood is arguably one of, Mario Bava's more eminently enjoyable, eerily effective monsters! While lacking the bravura blood-spatter of his sublime slasher serenade 'Twitch of the Death Nerve', the divinely macabre, immaculately Gothic 'Baron Blood' remains a deliriously entertaining 70s shocker! Sadistic, ghoulish, histrionic, and darkly draped with more despicably degenerate atmosphere than the profane imaginings of the magisterially malign, Marquis De Sade! The grimly resurrected Baron Blood is a spectacularly cruel sensualist, and his medieval modus operandi offers discerning horror fans a night to dismember!    

Set within the breathtakingly picturesque Castle 'Burg Kruezenstein', which acts dizzyingly as a gorgeously Gothic time machine, transporting you into Bava's ghastly, fear-festooned phantasmagoria! Thickly cobwebbed, foully adorned torture chambers, once resplendent, long faded dining halls, wherein restless phantoms twitch beneath dust-caked divans and ambulatory skeleton's fitfully slumbering in creaking closets! Its forbidding spires are gruesomely garlanded with grisly-looking gargoyles and the fatally gored cadavers of the maniacal Baron's unwanted houseguests!

'Baron Blood' is delirious Gothic pulp horror artistry at its very finest! Lovingly fashioned filmic fromage of the purest wormy Grindhouse Gorgonzola! Young, svelte, cinematically charming, Peter Kliest (Antonio Cantafora) is the dashing descendent of serial sadist, the infamous torturer, Baron Von Otto Von Kliest. In order to renew long neglected familial ties, the foolhardy playboy, along with the delectable Fräulein, Eve Arnold (Elke Sommer) attempts to resurrect the bellicose Baron by orating some eldritch flumbo-jumbo. Before you can shout 'Cut price Vincent Price!!!!' the mildewed, ruinous-looking wraith orgiastically obliges them with some outlandishly ominous, deep-shadowed savagery torn bloodily straight out of some garish Penny Dreadful. The only slender hope of ridding Schloss das Teufels of the benighted, body-rupturing Baron is via the spooky machinations of preternaturally beauteous, super-sensual white witch, Christine Hoffman (Rada Rassimov).

The gruesome-looking Baron Blood returns from the mouldering VHS grave and sadistically satiates his long-dormant, preternaturally perverse lusts upon the mortified flesh he so wantonly tortures in disgustingly pristine High Definition! Mario Bava's delightfully deviant, outrageously camp chamber of horrors is given the meticulous Blu-ray restoration it so earnestly deserves, just be sure to read aloud the incantation that will banish him to the squalling necrotic voids from whence he so malevolently came!