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Features: DVD, Uncensored, Original, Trailers
When American author, Edgar Allen Poe visits London, he is approached by British journalist Alan Foster, who becomes the target of a particular wager. Not believing Poe’s assertion that all of his macabre stories have been based on actual experience, Foster accepts a bet from Poe and his friend Sir Thomas Blackwood that he cannot spend an entire night in the Blackwood’s haunted castle. Once installed in the abandoned castle, Foster discovers that he is not alone, as he is approached by various beautiful women and handsome men, and a doctor of metaphysics – who explains that they are all lost souls damned to replay the stories of their demises on the anniversary of their deaths!
Editor's Note
While in London, author Edgar Allan Poe wagers that British journalist Alan Foster can't spend an entire night in the haunted castle of Poe's friend Sir Thomas Blackwood. Foster accepts, and once inside the castle, he meets various men and women, who explain to him that they are lost souls being forced to reenact their demises on the anniversary of the day that they occurred. This atmospheric, deeply gothic slice of Euro-horror was originally available in America only in an edited version.
| Features | Keep Case | | Unrated | | Letterbox - 1.78 | | Widescreen - 1.78 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital Mono - English & French | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers | | Interactive Features:
| Scene Selection | | Interactive Menus | | Text/Photo Galleries:
| Liner Notes from Film Historian Tim Lucas | | Still Gallery |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Ventura |
| Release Date: 10/22/2002 |
| Running Time: 89 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1964 | | Catalog ID: 0020 | | UPC: 00654930302095 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: French | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: B&W |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Cinematography |  4 | | Plot |  3 | | Acting |  5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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5 of 5 Good groan opera Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Monos Una from N.Y., N.Y.
Print (Synapse, c2002, "Uncensored International Version"; I used the French soundtrack) has 2 or 3 flaws in the form of abrupt jumps in the sound and image, but the print is good overall. Restorations were few and brief.
Atmosphere rather than plot. At times characters materialize like statuary mounted on the turntable of a municipal Swiss clock. Operatic, a staged spectacle. Then, they engage in urgent, hushed confabulations of sexual intrigue and frissons. Prosaic, a hormonal recitatif. Rather boudoir than dungeon. Steele and Robsahm do an outtake from Genet's "The Balcony". It is not Peter Falk who intervenes.
Barbara Steele + Edgar Poe + some European chest thrown in to keep the boys awake (and, thereby, the girls). '60's black and white; good of its kind.
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