'Nightmare Castle' (1965) – Mario Caiano.

Maestro, Mario 'Eye in the Labyrinth' Caiano's exciting cinematic art remains relatively undocumented, yet this more than capable genre filmmaker frequently proved himself most adept at exploitation cinema, and his oneiric, deliciously doomy, grisly-Gothic gem, 'Nightmare Castle' remains a shock-stuffed, perversely entertaining, shadow-steeped, coffin-creaky 60s creepshow, wherein a nerve-jangling plenitude of disturbing set pieces vividly pushed the censor-baiting envelope! The marrow-curdlingly strange bone-chiller, 'Nightmare Castle' will massacre your corpuscles with its murderous mendacity!! Only the hardiest of terror-tempered horror fiends might survive just ONE terminally inhospitable, plasma poisoning night within the grimly unhallowed, horror haunted, electrifyingly eerie environs of this nightmarish castle of doom!

With an unrelentingly cruel disregard for your sanity, this diabolically duplicitous, scientifically sordid, face-meltingly fiendish Italian fright-flick is a uniquely soul-stirring exemplar of stupendous style and blissfully bloody substances! This masterfully monochromatic 60s skin-crawler features that most uncommonly fascinating of all Gothic horror heroines, the magisterial mistress of the macabre, Barbara Steele, who charismatically delivers truly indelible twin performances as, Muriel Arrowsmith & Jenny, the ill-fated wives of her sadistic, pseudoscientist husband, Dr. Stephen Arrowsmith (Paul Muller). With blackened atmosphere to spare, a sublime, Morricone score, Mario Caiano's visually inventive, thematically twisted terror trip has additionally voluptuous inducements; as his, 'Nightmare Castle' is bountifully blessed with the preternaturally sensuous presence of raven haired temptress, Barbara Steele.