Bloody Pit of Horror
by Massimo Pupillo
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Actor: Alfredo Rizzo, Luisa Baratto, Mickey Hargitay, Rita Klein, Walter BrandiDirector: Massimo Pupillo
Producer: Ralph Zucker
Cinematographer: Luciano Trasatti
Editor: Mariano Arditi
Producer: Felix C. Ziffer
Producer: Francesco Merli
Writer: Roberto Natale
Writer: Romano Migliorini
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Italian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Alpha Video
Movie Reviews of Bloody Pit of Horror
Movie Review: Masterpiece of Unintentional Humor
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
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