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To me, this movie is perfection.

Simply A Masterpiece

Sadly Over-hyped

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

Most folks might hate this one, but I found it to be about as fast paced as these mysterious castle on a mysterious island films can be. Our Mr Fallon is some upper crust guy stranded on an island with the skipper of the ship. After hearing a woman being mauled to death in the middle of the night, the duo set off for help, only to be attacked by a giant man with a slingshot. Turns out this guy works for the Count De Sade, a guy so crazy that his craziness make a physical appearance and starts throwing bats and spiders at the guy! With that truly surreal scene over with, De Sade and our man Fallon (what with the skipper nursing a bad head wound, which turns out to be the least of his problems) have dinner together where we're introduced to Cassandra, another of the count's employees. She's thankfully not so crazy as the count, who believes that pirates are invading his home! Throw in a mute slave girl, and the big slave fella, and top it all off with what the count keeps in his basement, and you've got a full crazy-fest of doom!Fair enough there. This might be a very cheaply made (check out the toy boat!), badly acted b-movie, but there's plenty going on and a few good creepy moments thrown in to boot. For an early sixties film, it does seem to be a bit violent too, what with the whippings and the rack and such like. For those with low expectations and a forgiving mindset towards low budgets, I think you'll find something to enjoy here. I suppose even those out for a laugh at rubber spiders and amateur dramatics might enjoy it too.

Made on a painfully obvious breadcrumb budget, with an overly talky script, limp (non)direction by Pat Boyette (who also co-wrote the long-winded screenplay), a lethargic, uneventful, and meandering narrative, hit-or-miss acting, a dissatisfying downbeat ending, and cheesy (far from) special effects (the cruddy matte painting of a crumbling castle and the rinky-dink miniature of a ship that gets caught in a storm are both laughably hokey), this dreary dud about a sadistic count (robustly played by William McNulty) tormenting several folks on a remote island for the most part proves to be a boring chore to endure, but nonetheless manages to evoke a potently brooding gloom-doom Gothic atmosphere and delivers a couple of genuinely creepy and unsettling moments (Eunice Grey's regrettably brief appearance as the count's hideously disfigured and deranged wife who's stricken with leprosy rates as the definite flesh-crawling highlight). Moreover, both Helen Morgan as the sweet and helpful Cassandra and Michele Buquor as traumatized mute Ann manage to transcend the movie's pervasive mind-numbing mediocrity. Alas, Russ Harvey makes for a bland and underwhelming hero as the drippy Aaron Fallon, the excruciatingly poky pacing sucks all the energy and entertainment value from the picture, the slushy orchestral score is more obtrusive than effective, and the whole thing degenerates into the inevitable "The Most Dangerous Game" rehash in the last third. A deadly dull wash-out.

This weird movie from Texas is about Fallon, a dilettante rich boy in the late 1800s (although he looks like a 60s C&W singer with greasy hair and sideburns) whose ship wrecks on an island owned by Count DeSade (pronounced de-sayd) with his captain. The count is afraid of pirates and tortures a young girl who was once a pirate hostage and also tortures the captain. Meanwhile, creepy former nurse Cassandra tells Fallon the secrets of the castle. The Countess has leprosy and went mad! Fallon is trapped but brings supplies. The captain is killed by a racist-caricature slave. Fallon is thrown in the dungeon with the leper, who always thinks it's her wedding day. The leper bride is horny, bu Cassandra kills her. Fallon and Cassandra escape the castle, but the Count and his slave chase them with dogs. DeSade kills the slave and Fallon kills DeSade. Fallon and Cassandra fall in love over the course of the next year, but when the supply ship comes, the crew refuses to take our lovers because they're both lepers now. They live for years in the castle...Fallon's hair turns gray and Cassandra goes bonkers. Fallon puts her in the dungeon. Our tale of love and leprosy ends.So bizarre it's watchable, and you can smell the drive-in popcorn.

Why can't a movie be rated a zero? Or even a negative number? Some movies such as "Plan Nine From Outer Space" are so bad they're fun to watch. THIS IS NOT ONE. "The Dungeon of Horror" might be the worst movie I've ever seen (some of anyway. I HAD to fast forward through a lot of it!). Fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age, there may be worse movies I've seen, but thankfully, I can't remember them. The sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint. The special effects looked like a fifth grader's C+ diorama set in a shoebox. The movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the Marquis shoots and kills his servant. He then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim, who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it, without the gun having been reloaded! This movie was so bad my DVD copy only had name credits. I guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated. Though I guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn't needed. This movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as "The Manipulator", the worst movie I have ever seen with an actual (one time) Hollywood leading man-Mickey Rooney. The only time I would recommend watching "The Dungeon of Harrow" (or "The Manipulator" for that matter) would be if someone were to pay you. (I'm kind of cheap) I'd have to have $7 or $8 bucks for "Dungeon" and at least ten for "Manipulator". phil-the never out of the can cinematographer