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Nice effects though.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Opening Eastwood's Barbara Steele double feature DVD expecting to just find the 2 films on the cover,I was surprised to find a bonus disc with 2 more titles! Having already seen the excellent The Ghost,I got set to close the coffin on my run of Steele viewings. View on the film:Made as a love letter to Italian Gothic Horror and the lead actress, co-writer/(with Fabio De Agostini) director Mario Caiano goes round an odd way in expressing it,as Caiano & cinematographer Enzo Barboni dashes of surrealist nightmares, yelping deaths and lovingly-held close-ups are wiped clean by the majority of the run-time taken up by a costume drama romance,which holds little atmosphere of fear or urgency,with Ennio Morricone's classy score trying to bring shivers to the oddly calm and casual mood of the movie. Going blonde for her dual role, (perhaps an in-joke to her role in Elvis's Flaming City?)Barbara Steele grabs the film with an excellent sensuality as Jenny and Muriel Arrowsmith,with Steele lighting the flames of unease between her and Helga Liné's Solange,along with keeping Muriel in a nightmare state in the nightmare castle.

Yet another Gothic shocker, the ones that the Italians could make in their sleep by now. Once again events take place at a remote mansion, inhabited by sinister servants. Barbara Steele is on the receiving end of some nasty acts of violence before getting her revenge in the final reel. Sounds just like every other Italian Gothic film you've seen? You'd be right, and it's just as much fun.Once again the use of crisp black and white photography creates some stunning images with light and darkness battling for domination of the screen. Then again I watched this film in a widescreen, pristine print so I may just be biased. There's lots of creeping around in crypts and inexplicable noises in the distance, windows blowing open, etc. which help to give this film a nicely spooky atmosphere. This atmosphere is also increased by a beautiful, stately Gothic score by Ennio Morricone, one of the best composers of all time.The acting is good all round, only occasionally veering into ham. Barbara Steele once again gets to play a dual role, and also gets to dish out/be at the receiving end of some terrible torture. Indeed, the increased violence level here is what sets it apart from the other Gothic entries; while CASTLE OF BLOOD and contemporaries were happy to leave the violence implied and off screen, NIGHT OF THE DOOMED is happy to show some nasty torture in all its glory. One man has his face disfigured, another is burnt alive while tied to a chair, and there's a cruel hot poker moment in there too. The violence is only used occasionally, and there's nowhere near the amount that the blurb states, but it's shocking nonetheless. Steele also gets to wear some horrible makeup at the film's climax.Many people would complain that the pacing of this film is too slow, but I loved it. For the most part Steele thinks she is going insane, hearing noises in her head and dreaming of a murder. There's even an added sub-plot about a servant who seems to have come straight from COUNTESS Dracula and needs to have blood transfusions to keep her young. McDouglas is excellent as the stuffy, seemingly nice but cruelly evil husband, and even the dashing male lead is likable. The special effects are simple and effective; the only failure is a cheap-looking electrocution. Besides, when we have such classic moments as a man wiring up a bath to electrocute an enemy and an impaled heart being thrown in a fire, thereby dispelling the ghosts, it's easy to overlook these minor flaws. An excellent addition to your collection if you're a fan of Gothic cinema.

A man discovers that his no account wife is cheating on him, so he decides to take them out,, literally he takes their hearts out, and preserves them for the blood, this way he can make his lover more youthful. Soon after the wife's death the will is read and everything is left to her sister, and not to the husband,, well this definitely will not work for the husband so he starts to court the sister,, and then predictably drives her insane to her death in order to get the money from the estate. their is a lot of blood guts , and gore in this one,, not for the squeamish that's for sure,, Barbara Steele while not her greatest role,, she does very well with her part , and is sexy , and beautiful as ever, this is one woman I would definitely not want one my bad side, very fun flick.

Usually I like Barbara Steele's movies, but Mario Caiano's "Amanti d'oltretomba" ("Nightmare Castle" in English) is a little too slow-moving. Steele plays the wife of a scientist who looks like a cross between Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland and Benjamin Netanyahu. He kills her after discovering that she's having an affair, only to learn that she left her money to her sister. More shocks follow.The cinematography and setting create a very eerie feeling, and I can forgive the lousy dubbing, but the movie is just too slow-moving. This isn't a terrible movie, but I wish that it had gotten to the main story quicker than it did. Still, Barbara Steele looks great, as always.