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It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

A bus load of tourists spend the night at an impressive Gothic castle, the home to Baron von Rhoneberg who has a family curse due to an ancestor making a pact with the Devil centuries before. The Baron also dabbles in alchemy, which doesn't add much to the plot but is a good excuse to have a laboratory complete with human skeleton, etc. Not long in and two young sexy members of the group indulge in some lesbian love making. This isn't particularly graphic. This is by no means a classic of European Gothic horror but it's still an enjoyable watch. There's plenty of creepy atmosphere, some gory deaths and a few beautiful young women in the cast, including the stunning Erika Blanc. Daniel Emilfork gives a great performance as Satan in human form, very creepy.

The Devil's Nightmare opens in Berlin, 1945, with Nazi officer Baron von Rhoneberg (Jean Servais) brutally stabbing his newborn daughter as she lays helplessly in her crib. The reason for this jaw-dropping act of cruelty is that Gothic horror cliché, the family curse: the oldest daughter of each generation of the von Rhoneberg family is doomed to become a succubus, an agent of the devil tasked with collecting the souls of sinners. By killing his baby girl, the baron is ending the curse—or so he thinks… Years later, seven travellers seek shelter for the night at the baron's castle, and are killed one-by-one by his servant's sexy daughter Lisa Müller (Erika Blanc), the secret illegitimate offspring of his dead brother Rudolph.Any film that starts with gratuitous baby-stabbing gets my attention—it's not often you see that sort of cold-bloodedness, even in a horror—but the demented fun doesn't end there: this devilish Gothic tale from director Jean Brismée has virtually all the ingredients I look for in my early-'70s cult Euro-horror. A stormy night and the Baron's creepy castle provide the perfect setting, the impressive building coming complete with mad scientist's laboratory in the cellar and torture equipment in the attic. The baron's unexpected guests include a pair of gorgeous young women, Corinne (Ivana Novak) and Regine (Shirley Corrigan), who waste no time in stripping off for some steamy lesbian sex. And the deaths are both gruesome (decapitation via guillotine, impaled in an iron maiden and a high fall onto metal railings) and inventive (drowning in gold!!!).Brismée conducts proceedings with plenty of style, delivering enough sleaze and dreamlike atmosphere to keep most Jean Rollin and Jess Franco fans happy, but with the added bonus that it's never boring! All of this is enhanced by a wonderfully haunting score, and the film ends with a crazy twist that comes out of nowhere. What a shame that this was the director's one and only full length film.

We open in sepia tone 1945 with the fall of Berlin. What does this have to do with the rest of the movie? Very little.A priest, a bickering couple, two models, and their fat driver are in a van lost in the German countryside. Stop me if you've heard this joke before.After getting directions from grave digger Marylin Manson they decide to spend the night at a haunted castle and are invited to dinner by the creepy baron and his zombie butlers whom actually give them details on why each room they'll be staying in is haunted! What could possibly go wrong? Finally it's time for the meat of the story, the hot lezbo action between the models! This whole movie is basically the ultimate horror exploitation film with every cliché done to the extreme! So if you enjoy exploitation films you'll love this one.The set is also noteworthy. I have no idea where this was filmed but the real life castle stands out as no just a Hammer Horror movie set.

Movies such as "The Devil's Nightmare" are exactly the type of cinematic smut I live for! It's got everything to magically conjure a gigantic smile on the face of every slightly deranged horror/cult/exploitation fanatic. There's bad & incoherent plotting, macabre set-pieces, a mild Gothic atmosphere, demented characters, shocking themes, lousy gore effects and – not to forget – authentically gratuitous lesbian sex! This Belgian/Italian co-production (love the combination since I myself am Belgian and Italy is my favorite movie-making country) is messed up beyond proportions and describing the essence of the plot would take up at least a couple of pages, so I won't go too much into detail. Let's just say the main storyline revolves on an ancient family curse that turns every first born daughter of the Von Rhoneberg generation into a succubus (= female servant of the devil), and a group of tourists stranded at the family castle are just in time to "celebrate" the devilish pact's 700th anniversary. Furthermore, the baron practices alchemy in his basement, there are Nazi child-executions, a gruesome murder story for every room in the castle, the random torture of cats in the attic, negotiations between a priest and the devil himself and a wide variety of shlocky massacres. A lot of the on screen events don't make sense, and there's no building up suspense whatsoever, but it has to be said that the screenplay does also feature a couple of ingenious and rather clever elements. For example, the Succubus (a luscious Erica Blanc) makes sure that every tourist's death symbolizes his or her biggest sin, whether it's greed, unfaithfulness, curiosity … The killings are very nasty, though hardly scary, and follow each other at an incredible pace, barely allowing you the time to wipe the sinister grin off your face. And if all that isn't enough just yet, wait till you witness the far out climax sequence. Oh yes, "The Devil's Nightmare" is pretty bad… So bad it's freaking brilliant! Easily one of the most entertaining European exploitation movies ever made. It's ten times more exciting than all Jess Franco's movies combined, sleazier that Jean Rollin's horribly dull vampire movies and more demented than … well, anything you've ever seen. It's a damn shame Belgians and Italians didn't collaborate more often back in the 70's, because this crazy puppy is a real keeper.