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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)** 1/2 (out of 4) The Crimson Executioner is sentenced to death and his body sealed inside a tomb. Flash-forwards hundreds of years and a photographer and his models show up at a castle where they want to take some pictures. The new owner doesn't want them there but finally agree to let them stay for the night. Then the owner takes the identity of The Crimson Executioner and decides to kill everyone off.BLOODY PIT OF HORROR is a low-budget film that in a lot of ways reminded me of HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND. Both films aren't all that well-made and they certainly weren't going to win any Oscars but at the same time both of them were just so far out there that you couldn't help but have some fun with them. This film here manages to have some eye-opening scenes that are quite graphic and suggestive for a film from 1965 and it's these scenes that make it worth watching.This thing clocks in at 74-minutes and it's pretty much non-stop torture from the word go. Sure, we get the opening execution and then a brief introduction but the majority of that running time is devoted to a bunch of hot ladies being tied up and tortured in one way or another. The highlight has to be one sequence where a lady is tied up to a spider web with arrows pointing at her to prevent her rescue or escape. The other problem is the giant spider that is full of poison and heading towards her! This scene and the look of the spider is insane but oh so enjoyable.The film shouldn't be taken overly serious and there's not really a reason to bash it's performances, the dubbing or anything else for that matter. The film was made to try and shock people and I'm sure it was successful in its day. The brief nudity, scantly clad women and violence is something I'm sure outraged people at drive-ins across the country.

After this pile of dreck, I took a shower. I guess an orgy of sadism like this has its fans. Not me. I do like a good horror movie, but this has none of those artful qualities. Instead it's an endless round of pain, screams, blood, fights and torture, mainly torture. Oh sure, there's the expected skin show, but given the context, it's about as sexy as a kick in the groin. I guess by filming in Italy, the producers could get more bang for their ten bucks, while the castle and surrounding landscape do produce scenic grabbers. But the glowing Technicolor is better suited to cartoons, while the expressionless dubbing is about as good as mine. Meanwhile, muscleman Hargitay does little more than take off his shirt and roll in a vat of glistening oil. All in all, I guess you could say I didn't like the movie, and would only recommend it to folks who like politicians' speeches. Meanwhile, I think I'll catch another round of the great I Walked With A Zombie.

The very idea of finding a deserted castle in the middle of no where was funny enough for starters. Then everything they(the camera crew and models) found was intact, barely covered with dust and well lighted? You can't even find a ghost town that well preserved in the American West. And then the Hugh Hefner wannbe boss wanted the models to continue camera shooting after the first mysterious death, accidental or not? Uh-oh Scooby! And things just get better and cheesier from here! I felt this movie was much more comedy than actual horror. The Italian director's sense of campy humor of the 1960's was quite evident. I kept waiting for Adam West and Burt Ward to jump out and save the day. However, I guess it couldn't have been titled "Bloody Pit of Horror" could it? It's a whole lot of fun to watch but know the special effects aren't there. There's more on the original Star Trek series. The blood might as well have been shaken ketchup and the fight scenes aren't quite the skill level of the WWE but hey, it was made back in '65! I just wish I could have heard the classic "Batman" television series music along with "BIFF!","POW!","ZAM!" and seen the caped crusaders at the film's finish. It would have made a great surprise ending IMO!?! Oh well, one can only dream. Oh yes, I loved the reoccurring line "My perfect body!". HA! Good stuff.

Has there ever been an exploitation icon like Mickey Hargitay? I've now seen him in three quite delirious Italian trash-fests. I watched in amazement at his turns in Renato Polselli's extraordinary double-whammy of Delirium and The Reincarnation of Isabel. And now this, Bloody Pit of Horror. Well, this boy's nothing if not consistent that's for sure. It's yet another example of over-the-top acting where Hargitay plays a humourless psychopath. There is no irony whatsoever in his performance, he plays it straight always. And this is absolutely why these performances are just so good. Hargitay is a muscle-man, not an actor. But he gives his all and the results are a strange mixture of the unintentionally hilarious and completely nasty. As I say, no one plays a psychopath like Mickey Hargitay.As for this movie? Well, it's incredibly entertaining that's for sure. It mixes the then then popular Gothic horror elements with sleaze and torture. The villain, the Crimson Executioner is a somewhat memorable villain it has to be said. Homoerotic and completely ridiculous. Then there is the absolutely mind-boggling giant web scene. Honestly, you will never see anything like this anywhere else, it's something else. In general, so is this film. It's another example of the Italians making a ridiculous film that just can't help but be entertaining. Its soundtrack is more easy listening lounge music of the type you will have heard in countless other Italian productions of the period. The sort of music that sounds equally inappropriate and perfect. In other words Bloody Pit of Horror comes recommended as a slice of psychotronic mayhem of the first order.