Bezenby A bunch of Italian actors head off to a creepy looking castle and are picked off one by one by a masked killer. This is no giallo, however! Everyone knows who doing the killing - he's that big muscly bastard in the red cap and mask screaming about how he's the Crimson Executioner and he's going to kill everyone! It ups the camp factor greatly that the victims are made up off supermodel looking for a castle like location to take horror themed pictures, which leads to much groovy sixties montages. It also ups the camp factor that the guy in charge of the castle is a nutcase who thinks that he's returned from the grave to torture people to death in his dungeon. His ex-girlfriend is amongst the visiting models - that's what drives him insane. Either that or someone breaking the seal on the original Crimson killer guy's Iron Maiden...it's a bit confusing. And yes, someone gets stuffed into that Iron Maiden.I suppose it shouldn't be much of a surprise how violent this film is considering that Massimo Puppillo also made Terror Creatures From the Grave, but what threw me here was how violent this film actually was! People are graphically tortured SAW style, by having molten lead poured on them, frozen water dripped onto their backs, burned alive, and one is almost rescued by one of our heroes before receiving a metal hook under her jawline! Another guy has an arrow shot through his neck, two girls are strapped to a machine where a blade cuts them across the chest...all this set to a groovy sixties bongo/ride cymbal soundtrack and the campest killer ever.Also of note is that set design kind of only allows the colour red to stand out amongst the scenery. This is worth noting so you can bring this up when you have your 'Italian sixties movies' coffee mornings in order to raise funds to send little Jimmy to the Profondo Rosso shop in Rome before the Crimson Executioner comes to get him! I almost forgot to mention the ultra-elaborate 'Spider Web/Crossbow' torture device that appears early in the film. Surely that would have taken more effort than it's worth to set up?

Rainey Dawn I got this film in a 9-film collection called Horrorlicious. It's one of the so-bad-its-good films I found in the pack. The movie is not funny - it's actually on the creepy side in it's way but Mickey Hargitay as the crimson executioner is almost comical." A group of photographers and models go to an abandoned castle to shoot some pictures for a magazine. When they arrive they find a man who claims to be the owner of the place and his servant inside. The fake owner Travis finally says the group can stay and take some photos they find that Travis thinks he's the crimson executioner. When Travis puts on the clothing of the crimson executioner he becomes extremely violent, he tortures the group. Can any of them escape alive? I would give this film a 4 but because Mickey Hargitay gets me laughing as the crimsonexecutioner I will give the film an extra point.5/10

knightox 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.

Hitchcoc I'm probably in the wrong place. Most of the reviewers have a connection to this genre, so maybe it's unfair for me to write about it. I'm looking at it as a film in the general sense. This is utter crap. It always amazes me how people in horror movies go about their business, even though their group is being murdered methodically by some unknown force. This happens here. The girls continue to pose, even though there are less of them. At least they sent one guy to the police; that's something. The rest of it is exploitative soft-core pornography. Mickey Hargetay is interesting. I like his daughter on Law And Order: SVU. She's a better actress than he is an actor. Almost everything out of his mouth is so stupid that at no point could I care. Then there's all that torture. I got a kick out of the girls going around a cylinder while he pushed blades toward them, cutting them a little at a time. Just a terrible movie.