This one's got it all, kids! A haunted castle, overdubbing, a mad scientist lab, a torture chamber, creepy organ music composed by Mr. Ennio Morricone, ghosts, dreams, hallucinations...well it's a smorgasbord.
This is about a chicky-baby who sleeps with a dude, but then her everloving hubbykins dearest, who's an evil mad scientist natch, catches her and declares it a no-no. Hubbykins takes wifey down to the torture chamber of their cozy castle and it's on like Chakha Khan. Tortures them to death just for funsies. Suddenly the evil Doctor realizes he just screwed himself out of her will because she willed all her stuff to her step sister who's in a looney bin.
Hubbins finds out that step-sister's attractive, in fact looks just like his dead wife which is a crazy coinkedenk until we find out that she is played by the same actress, sensashe Barbara Steele, except she's blond. So he marries her to get at that sweet, sweet inheritance, after she's been declared well enough by her doc.
Meanwhile Hubbins was never exactly an angel as far as marital fidelity goes, as he was sleeping with a maid whose youth and beauty he restored with his mad scientist skills - as a sort of side project to all the torturing and murder. She natch is not too happy that Blondie's set up shop at the Fun Palace, but everloving Hubby says chill, we'll give her hullucino-jens so she gets good and insane, once they lock her up in a looney bin we'll have the castle all to ourselves, just us and the corpses. This leads to a whale of a good time in the old castle tonight!
Barbara Steele is a wonderful horror actress. I'm sorry I'm not making the Rue Morgue horror festival this year in Toronto, she's a guest and so is Roger Corman. Jump back!
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