‘He sought the ultimate in human agony… with instruments of torture ghastly beyond belief!’
Baron Bloodis a 1972 horror film in which a young man accidentally brings his dead relative back to life.
Directed and co-photographed by Mario Bava(Shock; A Bay of Blood; Black Sabbath; Black Sunday) from a screenplay co-written with Willibald Eser. The English version was written by Vincent Fotre (Night of the Witches; Missile to the Moon) and William A. Bairn.
The movie starsJoseph Cotten(Lady Frankenstein),Elke Sommer(Lisa and the Devil),Massimo Girotti,Rada RassimovandAntonio Cantafora.
Antonio Rinaldi handled the cinematographer along with director Mario Bava. The Italian version was scored byStelvio Cipriani(A Bay of Blood; Night Hair Child;Tentacles) whereas the US release by AIP was re-scored by Les Baxter (as were Bava’s earlier films Black Sunday and Black Sabbath).
Plot:
American Peter Kleist (Antonio Cantafora) travels to Austria visit the castle of his ancestor Baron Otto Von Kleist who had a reputation that earned him the nickname “Baron Blood” and who was cursed by a witch, Elisabeth Holle, for his evil deeds against the villagers before he burned her at the stake.
Peter is shown a parchment with a spell reputed to have the power to bring Baron Blood back to life. As a lark with Eva (Elke Sommer), a female architect renovating the castle for a hotel project, he reads the invocation out loud in the castle. Frightened by an unseen presence, they read the spell to send him back. They later read the invocation again, only this time the parchment is burned before they can read the dismissal.
The revived corpse-like Baron goes into town and murders a doctor (Gustavo De Nardo), starting a reign of terror directed against the villagers. With each murder victim, he becomes more human yet can revert to his hideous appearance…
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of three versions of the film: Bava’s original version Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga with Italian audio, The European Export Version of Baron Blood with English audio, and, on home video for the first time, the re-edited and re-dubbed AIP version of Baron Blood with alternate score by Les Baxter
- Three audio versions: Optional Italian, European English and AIP English re-dub and re-score
- English SDH subtitles and a new English subtitle translation of the Italian audio
- Audio Commentary with Bava biographer and expert Tim Lucas
- Introduction to Baron Blood by author and critic Alan Jones
- Delirium Italian-style: Ruggero Deodato on Mario Bava and the golden age of Italian genre films
- Mario Bava at work – a photo gallery of Bava behind the scenes in his films
- Trailers for Baron Blood
- Baron Blood Radio Spots
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic James Oliver illustrated with original archive stills and posters
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“The film isn’t really much more than a by-the-book compendium of genre clichés, yet Bava handles them so masterfully they appear fresh. As an index of the film’s success, you need only to look at Bava’s splendidly atmospheric use of his main location,Burg Kreuzenstein…” Jonathan Rigby, Euro Gothic
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