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Wed 7 May 2025
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Compelled to investigate the strange goings-on in a castle in 16th-century Spain, a young Englishman (John Kerr) investigating the death of his sister (Steele) encounters her husband, Nicholas Medina (Vincent Price), a figure on the brink of madness. Steele’s character has allegedly died of “fright” but remains an eerie and troubling presence.
Screenwriter Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) liberally adds to Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of possession, torture and entombment, leaning heavily on the atmosphere of fear and mental torment provided by its Spanish Inquisition era setting and the striking cinematography of Floyd Crosby (Murnau’s Tabu).
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