La vergine di Norimberga (1963)

Director:

Antonio Margheriti

Writers:

Frank Bogart (novel)
Ernesto Gastaldi (screenplay)

Release Date:

15 August 1963 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

Women are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor. |

Plot Keywords:

Castle | Stabbed In The Hand | Rat | Nudity | Hypodermic

Cast

Rossana Podestà	...	Mary Hunter
Georges Rivière	...	Max Hunter (as George Riviere)
Christopher Lee	...	Erich (as Cristopher Lee)
Jim Dolen	...	John Selby, FBI Agent
Anny Degli Uberti	...	Frau Marta
Luigi Severini	...	Doctor
Luciana Milone	...	Trude
Lucile Saint-Simon	...	Victim (as Lucile St. Simon)
Patrick Walton
Consalvo Dell'Arti
Peter Hardy
Rex Vidor
James Borden
Bredon Brett
Robert Mayor

Also Known As:

Back to the Killer
Horror Castle (USA)
Terror Castle
The Castle of Terror (UK)
The Virgin of Nuremberg (International: English title) (literal title)
Das Schloss des Grauens (West Germany) (video title) [de]
Die Gruft der lebenden Leichen (West Germany) [de]
El justiciero rojo (Spain) [es]
La vierge de Nuremberg (France) [fr]
Nüremberg bâkiresi (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Panic (France) (video title) [fr]

Runtime:

83 min | USA:84 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | Germany:16 | West Germany:18 (nf) | USA:Unrated (video rating)

Filming Locations:

Incir De Paolis Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Atlantica Cinematografica Produzione Films

Trivia:

In the French version, Christopher Lee was dubbed by Marcel Bozzuffi.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: Although the movie is set in Germany, palm trees can be seen during the exterior shots and the geography and exterior architecture denotes the landscape that of southern Europe.

A dark, yet beautiful film

I collect horror dvds from the 60s and 70s. There are those that are classics because they are well made films artistically speaking. This is one of those films. Before I watched this film I had read that there was a jazz score that didn't seem to match the subject matter. At first, it did seem out of place, but once I got into the film I didn't even notice. The music actually plays a big part in building suspense.

Christopher Lee plays a nice mystery man role. Has a bit of a "who done it" kind of story. Over all a good film, especially for fans of Gothic kind of horror or Hammer films.