The Haunted Castle - BLU-RAY

Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with such films as Nosferatu (1922) and Faust (1926), Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau crafted a moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that Lurks within The Haunted Castle (1921). A hunting party is interrupted by the arrival of a notorious Count (Lothar Mehnert), who is believed to have murdered his brother. The uninvited guest sets in motion an elaborate plot to resurrect the ghosts of the past and bring to light the dark secret that lies at the center of his brother's death. Breaking away from the dark, foreboding dramas for which he was becoming known, Murnau explored the realm of light comedy in a playful espionage thriller reminisent of Ernst Lubitsch The Finances of the Grand Duke. Harry Liedtke stars as a Inchbenevolent dictatorInch who must preserve the tiny nation of Abacco by fending off creditors, wooing a wealthy Russian princess (Mady Christians), and evading a band of demonic conspirators (including Nosferatu himself, Max Schreck).

In the 15th century, Wallachian warrior-prince Vladimir (Caleb Landry Jones) found a trap for his Ottoman foes claiming his beloved wife Elisabeta (Zoë Bleu)-and himself damned to a vampiric existence as a result. Searching over the years for his lost love's reincarnation, he finds her in Mina Harker (Bleu, again)... but can her husband Jonathan (Ewens Abid) and a determined priest (Christoph Waltz) save her soul? Luc Besson's stylish and romantic read also stars Matilda de Angelis, David Shields. AKA InchDracula A Love Tale.Inch 129 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

At the height of her career as the dark goddess of Italian horror, the legendary Barbara Steele (BLACK SUNDAY) delivered two of her most memorable performances in this tale of obsession, madness and depravity. Steele stars as a cheating wife who is chained, whipped and tortured to death by her sadistic scientist husband, and as her unstable blonde stepsister whose fate may be even more ghastly. Paul Muller (VAMPYROS LESBOS), Helga Line (HORROR EXPRESS) and Rik Battaglia (SISTER EMANUELLE) co-star in this twisted shocker directed by Mario Caiano, featuring stunning black & white cinematography by Enzo Barboni and the very first horror score by Ennio Morricone. Throw away all those inferior transfers from censored TV prints This is NIGHTMARE CASTLE like you've never seen it before!