The Legend of the Blood Castle
by Jorge Grau
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Actor: Espartaco Santoni, Ewa Aulin, Lola Gaos, Lucia Bos, Silvano TranquilliDirector: Jorge Grau
Brand: WEA DES Moines Video
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-06-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 201017
Studio: Mya Communication
Product features:
- LEGEND OF BLOOD CASTLE (DVD MOVIE)
Movie Reviews of The Legend of the Blood Castle
Movie Review: vampirism
Summary: 4 Stars
The director of the film, Jorge Grau, is less known than other Spanish "fear makers" of his generation like Jesus Franco or Paul Nashy. But with only three films (this one and the excellent Pena de Muerte and No Profanar el Sueno de los Muertos) he proves an incredible ability to create disturbing and compelling horror films.
Ceremonia Sangrienta is for me not only his masterpiece, its also the best attempt to do horror cinema in Spain, its as good as other countries with longer horror traditions like the United States, United Kingdom or Italy. The story is fascinating. It proposes a new point of view of the classical myth of the vampire, more realism than existed in the moment that was made the film, and really visionary.
Visually the film is equally splendid. The photography of Fernando Arribas, present in a lot of Spanish horror films like La Cruz del Diablo, Horror Express or the recent Memorias del Angel Caido, is simply extraordinary, giving the film the appropriate color and light.
The cast is perfect, especially the sensual actress Lucia Bose, but its the work of Jorge Grau behind the camera that makes this film so interesting. The tempo has ups and downs and progresses with the force of a train in the night, the mise in scene is classical and stylish at the same time, and I have no doubt that Grau really had known how to capture the essence of vampirism in images.
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