jacobjohntaylor1
This is a very scary movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is not has scarier has The March of 1931 version of Dracula. But still pretty good. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street. It is scarier then the April of 1931 version of Dracula. But not has scarier has the 1931 version of Frankenstein. But it is scarier then Friday the 13th. It is scarier then the 1910 version of Frankenstein could ever be. But it not has scary has The wolf man. But it is still pretty scary. This is scarier then The Exorcist of Halloween. This one of the best horror movie from the 60's. See it. It is a great movie.
Rainey Dawn
The wiki and other sources have this film tagged/labeled as horror and fantasy but NOT comedy. A lot of people are calling this one a comedy-horror when it is not just because there is some comic relief or comical moments within the film. It's on the campy side - so it's fun at times.Overall this film is terrible - really bad. It is mildly entertaining in it's way but mostly boring to me. It's such a shame because I like Barbara Steele and this film is a waste of her good talent - for one thing she is not in this film enough to satisfy most of us.The movie is just over 1 hour and 18 minutes long and it took 30 minutes for the car wreck to happen and the ghost witch to enter into the man's wife. After the possession, it is still pretty much of a bore to watch with a handful of good scenes.3/10
dwpollar
1st watched 8/28/2014 -- 3 out of 10(Dir-Mike Reeves): So so horror movie about a resurrected witch causing problems in modern day Transylvania kind of bores the viewer and creates a lot of improbable occurrences in the course of the movie. The movie starts with a count recalling an incident from a long time ago where a pre-determined witch is placed on a piece of equipment called "The Chair" where she is impaled and dipped multiple times in a local lake before expiring(one of the most elaborate & gruesome penalties portrayed on film for sure). Of course, the She Beast, is rather gruesome also in this foreign production and obviously portrayed by a man(late in the film you get a look at the legs and you can tell). We are then presented with a young couple newlywedding in Transylvania(of all places), who eventually are driven off the road into the lake putting to rest the female(apparently). The male then hooks up with the count -- who we find out is the famous killer of Dracula, Van Helsing, and attempts to exercise the witch out of the newly deceased bride before she kills everyone in town. Mel Welles -- from a "Little Shop of Horrors" fame -- plays a drunkard, bumbling, extremely moral-less hotel manager who gets in the midst of everything. Initially, the husband, gets rather annoyed when Helsing suggests that what's happened is this exorcism, but eventually believes it. Barbara Steele & John Karlson play the husband and wife team that are just a pawn for this inevitable semi-shockfest. The movie was supposedly an Italian/Yugoslavian production but it was obviously intended for English-speaking audiences and is somewhat light really compared to the stuff that comes out nowadays, but was probably pretty rough back then. Despite this -- the movie just doesn't pull you in, and is pretty slow midway thru so the shock doesn't really do anything. A definite miss in this genre, bypass it.
classicsoncall
Well so far I'm batting 0 for 2 today, with an early viewing of a pretentious Belgian film "La Moustache", and even though I like to vary my genres for the sake of a well rounded viewing experience, this one also failed to deliver big time. I was drawn to the title because of Barbara Steele's name at the top of the credits, but she's really not in this very much at all, unless you want to consider that might be her under all the hideous make-up of the title character, but we know that's not the case. I really don't feel I need to go into the details of the flick because other reviewers here do that well enough, and I've already invested enough time into this travesty. High points would be that head scratching hammer and sickle scene, and Von Helsing asking Philip if he noticed anything unusual after the car crash. Low points would be, well, everything else. Take Philip's advice when at one point he says to Von Helsing - "I haven't time for your nonsense".P.S. - My summary line - they were talking about the movie.
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