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| Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism and Death Smiles on a Murderer | 
 enlarge | Director: Harald Reinl;joe D'amato
Actors: Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski
Studio: Legend House
Category: DVD
Buy New: $39.98
New (4) Used (1) from $29.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 53707
Format: Color, Compilation, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 177
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 2107
UPC: 895809001217
EAN: 0895809001217
ASIN: B00118SUIE
Theatrical Release Date: May 21, 1969
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM: Christopher Lee plays Count Regula who is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER: A bizarre and stylish mixture of necrophilia sexual obsession and gore. A rich couple take in a young girl who was in an accident and has amnesia and both have an affair with her. Meanwhile a doctor (Klaus Kinski) uses an ancient Incan formula to raise the dead for his own series of revenge murders.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/KILLER UPC: 895809001217 Manufacturer No: 2107
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 So very excited for this release March 21, 2008
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
I haven't seen this yet but I am so psyched to buy it. Done and done. The Gothic-Euro review here cracked me up, and the fact that someone chose to give this one star BEFORE release means there's got to be good because some competitor is jealous as a green squid. It's "...screenplay may well have been written in collaboration with a Cuisinart!" -- HA! Delightful and delicious.
"Any movie vit Klaus eez verth a luke!" March 21, 2008
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
My name is Werner Manfred Hoffstrotten. I babel fish this review.
This movie is bigger than Star Wars in my country! Of this you can be rest assured! Children watch it on certain Saturday mornings! It is held in highest regard by the prime minister herself and only she has a cassette of it since it has been banned 62 times in her domain!
My suggestion is for you to proclaim it immediately!
Two very different faces of Gothic Euro Horror March 21, 2008
67 out of 70 found this review helpful
Klaus Kinski. Christopher Lee. Karin Dor. Harald Reinl. Joe D'Amato. Talk about your cream of the Euro-Horror crop!
A loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum," THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM might just be the least fitting of this film's many alternate titles (CASTLE OF THE WALKING DEAD, BLOOD OF THE VIRGINS, etc.), but you can't deny it's one that really sticks in the brain!
With strong nods to classic Hammer films and the Roger Corman/Vincent Price Poe adaptations, this is a movie with cobwebby atmosphere to spare. It's an old-fashioned haunted castle tale, with Christopher Lee as an undead aristocrat seeking revenge against an appropriately dashing leading man (former TARZAN Lex Barker) and a suitably gorgeous damsel in distress (Karin Dor). And if that doesn't do it for you, the incredible and elaborate sets and locations will have you wishing they still made 'em like they used to.
(Be sure to watch for the visually stunning scene of the coach ride through the haunted forest surrounding Lee's castle; these few minutes of screen time have sown the seeds of many a nightmare since 1967!)
DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER shares several Gothic elements with DR. SADISM, but its screenplay may well have been written in collaboration with a Cuisinart! I'm sure there's a coherent storyline in there somewhere, but you'll have your work cut out for you piecing it together.
Not that you'll care; this is WTF filmmaking at its finest. Before the movie's over, people will be walled up in cellars, thrown from high castles, hung on hooks like old coats, gorily mutilated by possessed cats, and raised from the dead only to be killed all over again. And if at times it's a challenge sorting out exactly what's going on, its sleazy/creepy atmosphere and bizarre and lyrical imagery more than make the head-trip worth taking.
Old school film buffs will simply be pleased to find such handsome prints of these films on DVD. But new converts to legendary filmmakers like Mario Bava or fans of Tim Burton's frequent use of Gothic Horror elements will find this pairing an excellent crash course in how it was done in the heyday of Euro-Horror.
 Bootleg To Be Avoided February 2, 2008
16 out of 81 found this review helpful
Yet another pathetic, simpering, unauthorized bootleg from Legend House, who seem to not only have no shame but think the buying public are complete idiots. Get a zone free DVD player and find the Region 2 originals used to source this piece of garbage.
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