Baron Blood (1972) European Cut AKA Gli orrori del castello di No...

One of the horror giant Mario Bava's biggest hits, Baron Blood returns to the all-stops-out Gothic atmosphere and the central theme of a witch's curse that fuelled his breakthrough film Black Sunday twelve years later. This time, the curse was placed on Baron Otto von Kleist, Austria's legendarily murderous 'Baron Blood', whose corpse is inadvertently revived when an ancient incantation is read out as a joke by a descendant and his girlfriend. Naturally, the Baron decides to carry on where he originally left off, with the help of an entire vault of elaborate torture devices.

Jospeh Cotten has a whale of a time as the deceptively charming Baron, and is given sterling support from Elke Sommer, who is chased through fog-shrouded alleyways in one of Bava's modst memorably atmospheric set-pieces.

This is the original/standard version of this film.


This film is a part of my Mario Bava collection, which includes:

I Vampiri (1957) Italian cut and English cut
Black Sunday (1960) European Cut and American Cut
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) Italian cut and American cut
Black Sabbath (1963) Italian cut and American cut
The Whip and the Body (1963)
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Planet of the Vampires (1965) Italian cut and English cut
Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)
Danger: Diabolik (1968)
Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
Four Times That Night (1971)
A Bay of Blood (1971) Italian Cut and English cut
Baron Blood (1972) Original Cut and American cut
Lisa and the Devil (1974) Original cut and House of Exorcism cut
Rabid Dogs (1974) Original cut and Kidnapped cut
Shock (1977)

Most of you don't have to download every upload. It's hard to say what's the best version to watch for everyone but the standard version will always be uploaded first and it will include a commentary track by Tim Lucas. The standard versions have better video and audio quality. All the other versions are there for archivists and Bava enthusiasts or if you really want to watch a specific language dub.