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product_id: 16890469
title: "Castle Of The Living Dead"
brand: "sinister cinema"
price: "$30"
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reviews_count: 23
category: "DVD"
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# Castle Of The Living Dead

**Brand:** sinister cinema
**Price:** $30
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- **What is this?** Castle Of The Living Dead by sinister cinema
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## Description

(1964) Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland. A troupe of entertainers finds themselves in peril as guests in Lee&apos;s mysterious old castle. This top-notch euro-horror film was also Sutherland&apos;s first film. Lee is terrific. Creepy and atmospheric from start to finish. From 16mm.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Great Italian Gothic Horror!
  

*by B***) on Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2015*

Castle Of The Living Dead is a interesting piece of gothic Italian horror from 1964. Starring Christopher Lee and Donald Sutherland. Its the 19th century and somewhere in France a band of gypsy circus performers travel to a old castle to entertain for the Count there. One by one Count Drago kills off the group for his own experiments in preserving the dead without chemicals or traditional mummification, using a black magic of sorts.The movie isn't so much about the plot as it is the strange and interesting characters. You have Donald Sutherland playing two different roles. One, a old hag/witch who pop ups throughout the film spouting off cryptic warnings and second, a French police Sgt who is humorous in his mannerism and dialog.Then you have the band of gypsiesmade up of a dwarf, a mute, a harlequin, a beautiful woman and several other performers who all seem to have their own quirky personality.And of course, there is the great Christopher Lee as Count Drago who is always fun to watch and is as evil as ever.The film has that gothic look that only Italian films seemed to be able to achieve back then and a charm onto itself. Its not one of Christopher Lee better known film nor his best, but its worth buying this and has a great re-watch factor.

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    I like this movie a lot
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2016*

I like this movie a lot. I ordered it because I'm a big Christopher Lee fan since he was young and I was just a kid. Also there's another film made in the early 1990's at this same castle with the large crazy statuary on the grounds. This was also Donald Sutherland's first movie. He plays both an old witch and a policeman in it. I definitely prefered him as the witch, reminded me of something out of Monty Python. The little dwarf was cool, too, as was the cute kitty who likes to drink cognac. I'd love someday to see this movie cleaned up and made to fit modern t.v. screens. But it still was a real pleasure I've watched it several times.

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    Lee, Sutherland, and other familiar faces
  

*by H***K on Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2013*

This Italian-French co-production falls into the so-bad-it's good category. It stars Christopher Lee (as Count Drago) and was Donald Sutherland’s first feature. The Canadian actor has a triple role!The co-director and co-scriptwriter was Warren Kiefer. (Yes, Kiefer Sutherland was named after him.)Circa 1815 in Italy, a troupe of five traveling players is commissioned for a private performance at “scientist” Drago’s castle, where they are shocked to discover an incredible petrified world.Sutherland is credited in IMDb as “Sgt. Paul / The witch / The old man.” Paul is a dimwitted provincial police officer, and Sutherland’s own voice is overdubbed. Of course, for the witch role, he cross-dresses and wears the requisite false nose and warts. A woman’s voice is overdubbed, and her lines are entirely in rhyme. But who is “the old man”? The only point where I can figure that Sutherland could be in this role is at the very beginning, where he may be briefly playing a highwayman, with his back to the camera, in a long shot. (Of course, some scenes may be missing from the version I watched on Amazon Instant Video.)Lee, wearing what may be the shabbiest-looking makeup of his entire career, also overdubbed his own voice. His reading of the biblical funeral liturgy at one point is, to say the least, eye-popping.Actors Philippe Leroy and Luciano Pigozzi are also familiar faces. The latter will at least be recognizable to genre fans.Another among three co-directors was Michael Reeves, who -- before dying of a barbiturate O.D. at age 25 -- also helmed She-Beast, The Sorcerers, and his masterpiece, The Conqueror Worm.In between making pedestrian movies like Castle of the Living Dead, cinematographer Aldo Tonti also worked with Fellini, Huston, Rossellini, King Vidor, and Visconti.CotLD was made in central Italy at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle and among the huge, grotesque 16th-century stone statues of the Bomarzo Monster Garden.Christopher Lee once said in an interview: “It was a very surrealist type of picture.”

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