Danza macabra (1964)

Country of Origin: Italy / France
Year of Production: 1964
Running Times: 87 mins
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Ulysse Productions / Vulsinia Films
Producer: Giovanni Addessi
US Version Producers Producers: Frank Belty (real name: Leo Lax), Walter Sarah (real name: Marco Vicario)

SCRIPT
Script: Gordon Wilson Jr (real name: Sergio Corbucci), Jean Grimaud (real name: Giovanni Grimaldi)
Story: Danse Macabre by Edgar Allan Poe

DIRECTION
Director: Anthony M. Dawson (real name: Antonio Margheriti)
Assistant Director: Roger Drake (real name: Ruggero Deodato)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Richard Kramer (real name: Riccardo Pallottini)

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Otel Langhel (real name: Otello Colangeli)

MUSIC
Music: Ritz Ortolani (real name: Riz Ortolani)

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: E. Catalucci (real name: Enrico Catalucci)

CAST
Barbara Steele (Elisabeth Blackwood)
Georges Rivière (Alan Foster)
Margarete Robsahm (Julia)
Henry Kruger (real name: Arturo Dominici) (Dr Carmus)
Montgomery Glenn (real name: Silvano Tranquilli) (Edgar Allan Poe)
Sylvia Sorrent (real name: Silvia Sorrente) (Elsi)
Phil Karson (real name: Giovanni Cianfriglia)
John Peters
Raul H. Newman (real name: Umberto Raho)
Salvo Randone
Ben Steffen (real name: Benito Stefanelli)

PLOT SUMMARY

Writer Edgar Allan Poe accepts a challenge to spend a night alone in a supposedly haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. But as the night wears on, he's visited by the vengeful ghosts of people who have been killed in the castle, all of them needing Poe's blood to stay alive once the dawn breaks.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Woolner Brothers Pictures Inc
Video Distributors: Sinister Cinema; Something Weird Video; Filmfax
DVD Distributors: Sinister Cinema; Synapse Films

TIMELINE

1964
July
29: USA – theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

The living and the dead change places in an orgy of terror!

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Castle of Blood - UK / USA title
The Castle of Terror - US title
Coffin of Terror
Danse macabre - French title
Dimensions in Death
Edgar Allan Poe's Castle of Blood
The Long Night of Terror
La lunga notte de terrore
Terrore
Tombs of Horror
Tombs of Terror

LINKS

REMAKE
Nella stretta morsa del ragno (1970)

REFERENCES

BOOKS

Creature Features Strikes Again p.67
credits, review (by John Stanley)

Guide to Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Movies p.88
credits

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992
credits, review

The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide p.45
credits, review (by Stephen Jones)

Spaghetti Nightmares pp.164-165
credits

KEYWORDS

castles, ghosts

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009