Le monstre du château

Original title: Il castello dalle porte di fuoco

1970
12
1h 38m

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A young female biochemist travels to a castle seeking employment as a researcher by a wealthy baron, only to be sucked into a web of violence and intrigue.A young female biochemist travels to a castle seeking employment as a researcher by a wealthy baron, only to be sucked into a web of violence and intrigue.A young female biochemist travels to a castle seeking employment as a researcher by a wealthy baron, only to be sucked into a web of violence and intrigue.

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Erna Schürer

Ivanna Rakowsky
(as Erna Schurer)

Carlos Quiney

Janos Dalmar
(as Charles Quinney, Jeffrey Chase)

Agostina Belli

Cristiana

Cristiana Galloni

Olga
(as Christina Pathé)

Antonio Jiménez Escribano

The Butler
(as Antonio Gimenez Escribano)

Mariano Vidal Molina

Inspector

Enzo Fisichella

Igor

Ezio Sancrotti

Driver Turning Rapist

Giancarlo Fantini

Doctor

Franco Moraldi

Mayor

Renato Paracchi

Police Writer
(as Paracchi Renato)

Javier de Rivera

Judge
(as Javier Rivera)

Silvia Faver

Ivanna
(English version)
(voice)
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Igor strikes his victim only twice across her upper body, but the following shot shows multiple stripes across the entire body.

Goofs
Igor strikes his victim only twice across her upper body, but the following shot shows multiple stripes across the entire body.

Quotes
Ivanna Rakowsky: [of Igor] The way he treats me in that horrible torture chamber isn't very nice ... He just touches me though. He doesn't try to make love to me because he knows I don't want to.
Janos Dalmar: [horrified] What is this place where you say you were tortured?
Ivanna Rakowsky: Well, it was a room where... I wasn't ever really hurt though. All you ever did was stretch me out on some sort of rack
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Alternate versions
SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER was the re titled US release via New World. It ran approx. 78 minutes and was hacked down to fit on a double bill with THE VELVET VAMPIRE. SCREAM was also syndicated to television and with the nudity removed fit snugly in a 75 minute time slot. The Retromedia DVD contains the full length version.

Connections
Featured in Reel Wild Cinema: Lunatics on the Loose (1996)

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Featured review

"I'll Laugh At Your Funeral!"...

Scientist Ivanna Rakowsky (Erna Schurer) travels to the remote castle of the mysterious Baron Janos Dalmar (Carlos Quiney). She's there to assist him in his bizarre experiments with regenerating dead tissue.

Uh oh!

Things aren't so simple, since there happens to be a maniacal murderer on the loose, preying on the local women.

SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER is a rather slow, gothic horror film. It's far more sedate than it's title might imply, though it does have its moments. The final revelation, while not a big surprise, is well done and makes up for some of the preceding tedium...