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Great Film overall

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

My review of The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism(**contains spoilers**)This movie went by so many different names. I think I like the title that most people know this movie by "The Castle of the Walking Dead" best. The title "The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism" is very misleading and off-putting. It evokes images of Eli Roth-style torture-porn movies and this movie is nothing like that.This movie is a delight to watch. The movie was very well shot by director, Harald Reinl. The color palette of this film was rich with blood red sky's and marine blue spooky dungeon walls. The lead actress, Karin Dor wore a dazzling purple dress. Count Regula's laboratory had bubbling viols of every color of the rainbow. Visually, this film has an artistic quality to it, from the elaborate murals painted on the dungeon walls to the surreal colors of the cave walls.In a nutshell, this movie is great example of West German "krimi" cinema of the late 1960's, spooky but not bloody. It is clear that no expense was spared to make sure that this movie looked great. The costumes and settings and props and lighting were all top-notch. I thought that the casting was also fantastic. Christopher Lee played a perfectly creepy Count Regula. The leading man, Lex Barker, managed to portray a rugged masculine confidence in his role as Roger Mont Elise. Lex Barker is used to the strong silent physically imposing roles as he played Tarzan in a number of movies earlier in his career. German actor Carl Lange brought a wonderfully spooky presence to his role of Anatol, henchman to the evil Count Regula.Brian Bly in his review wondered if this movie actually qualifies as Horror. Maybe not. But it does seem like an appropriate movie to watch during the Halloween season. In fact, doesn't this movie seem like something that might have been shown at 6:00pm on Halloween night in the late 1970's-early 1980's? This movie certainly has a safe but spooky feel to it that seems like it was made for a younger audience. While young movie goers of the late 1960's might have been creeped-out by the spiders, snakes, skulls, skeletons and death traps, ultimately no major character dies. In fact the "monsters" are dispelled by a simple crucifix. This movie might better be described as thrilling rather than horror.Rather than market this movie as a Horror movie, I think this movie works better as a buddy adventure movie. If this movie had been filmed in the 1980's I imagine Danny Devito in the role of Father Fabian (the thief). This movie fits in perfectly with more familiar 1980's adventure movies like "Romancing the Stone" or "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". In fact, the movie might not have been to different had it cast Dean Martin as Roger Mont Elise and Jerry Lewis as Father Fabian. The script of this movie seems to contemplate two swinging guys hooking up with two hot chicks while a whole bunch of spooky stuff happens around them. For sure, the musical score evokes a kooky, happy, 1960's "we are all going to get laid" tone.

Handsome, big, strong Lex Barker – my favourite Tarzan, for what it's worth – hadn't played Edgar Rice Burrough's tree-swinging hero for ten years, but he is still every inch the hero here. Not perhaps the most personable actor, he has a magnetic presence that dominates the screen (as a personal aside, I'm a big fan of comic artist Mike Ploog, who drew many horror strips for Marvel in the 1970s – Barker is like one of Ploog's drawn heroes come to life). The same may be said for Christopher Lee as the evil Count Regula, whom we first meet facing the prospect of being publicly quartered for his crimes. Karin Dor plays Baroness Lilian von Brabant, damsel in distress with the heaving bosom, who takes an instant liking to Barker's Roger Monte Elise.There are rumours, 35 years after his gruesome death, in which Regula still somehow lives. The search for him, with burning torches, through the impressively Gothic and labyrinthine passageways of the castle threaten to become a little tedious. Hand in hand with the Countess, Elise stoically isn't put off by gory entrails or threatening voices. It is here any tedium ends, with a wealth of pits, scorpions, snakes, leering faces and the like looming out of the shadows and the rank, dripping tunnels."The blood is the life," says Regula (echoes of Dracula) to those who have witnessed his resurrection, who are in fact ancestors of those who had him put to death. It is here at last Poe's 'Pit and the Pendulum', which had been credited as inspiration for this, makes a spectacular appearance, as Elise is tortured in a bid to fill Brabant with enough fear so that her blood may allow Regula eternal life … or something like that.Director Harald Reinl and composer Peter Thomas conspire to produce something highly enjoyable, very colourful, Gothic and dripping with wonderful horror atmosphere. Great fun.

"Torture Chamber Of Dr Sadism", "Castle Of The Walking Dead", "Snake Pit and The Pendulum", "Blood Of The Virgins" - all lurid titles given to this Euro Horror that conjure up ghastly images which this film readily delivers upon but does not exceed. Sumptuous on location shots from Rothenburg, a haunted forest with trees sprouting decaying bodies and limbs, a medieval castle replete with endless catacombs and creepy dungeons - all filmed in garish lascivious colors - is sure to be a feast for the eyes for any lover of these "Hammer" style horror films.This creepy-cartoon-come-to-life sports two leads (Lex Barker and Kristin Dor) who are as stunning looking as their surroundings and just as inanimate. They seem to just walk through the horror with very little effect. And the plot - well, it isn't really a plot, but rather a few different events taking place. After the conventional, but always enjoyable, beginning involving Christopher Lee being declared a witch, sentenced to death for his crimes and swearing out revenge upon the descendants of his perpetrators, the first third is our characters traveling to the castle, the second third is our characters exploring the castle and the final third is Christopher Lee's reappearance and avengement. Still, this one is highly recommended viewing for lovers of these cool Euro Gothic horrors. Casual viewers, non-genre addicts or those requiring a plot may grow bored with this style over substance effort. But, oh...what style it has!

this movie was interesting, and had some magic to it still... it was made over 40 years ago.i'd like to give it a 6, which is good.the production in very good for the time being...i think this one was better than many hammer films.yes if you do get your hands on this treasure, watch it and enjoy.the music is pretty good too.i don't know actually if there is even a DVD of this. i have it on old VHS.MAN THIS 10 LINE RULE IS RATHER STUPID =D SINCE FOR GOOD MOVIES ONE DOES NOT WANT TO SPOIL THE PLOT THEN MAYBE A FEW LINES OF PRAISAL IS GOOD ENOUGH