May 20 2010
Bloody Pit of Horror Movie Streaming
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This is definitely a MUST Pick DVD for any die-hard euro-horror fan! This ridiculous and extremely moving 1965 Italian horror-romp stars Mickey Hargitay (Jayne Mansfield’s husband) as “The Crimson Executioner”. He struts around bare-chested wearing red tights and admiring his muscular body in the mirror as he rubs it all over with oil. When a film crew comes to his castle, he starts torturing and killing them off one by one, overacting all the draw! Mickey is a right ham and jumps around the cover like a lunatic throughout. One big highlight is a room with a giant spiderweb and a hungry spider. And then, of course, there’s the torture chamber. There’s a rotating torture intention that Mickey ties bikini-clad women up to and as it turns a attractive blade rips and tears at their skimpy brassieres and lightly scrapes their flesh! And with Mickey running around half-naked throughout in his red tights, were they also going for a blissful audience? It’s all quite tame by today’s standards, but at the time, this must have been quite a sensation! It’s a titanic sleaze-trash classic NOT TO BE MISSED!
The DVD presents the film in it’s U.S. 73-minute abbreviated version. 9 minutes were trimmed out of the complete version (”A Story of Torture”) by it’s American distributor. The deleted scenes are included as a supplement (including the alternate title sequence), but it’s too terrible they didn’t restore the footage benefit into the film. Something Peculiar offers the complete 83 runt version “A Record of Torture” on VHS under the “Bloody Pit” title so you would have plan this would be the same print. BUT it’s not… maybe because the print mature here looks a lot better than the “Torture” print and it’s fully letterboxed whereas the “Torture” print was only marginally letterboxed. Also, the movie has never looked better than this transfer…the colors are vibrant and challenging and the detail is quite safe (although there is some minor artifacting) . So, having the deleted scenes as a supplement only was probably a superb decision.
Other extras include a rather dilapidated (and kind of lame) U.S. trailer, a clip from the movie “Stale Cherish” with Jayne and Mickey shot around the same time and another clip called “Cloak Girl Slaughter” which shows a lurid magazine cloak photo shoot featuring women staged in kill or death scenes (mildly laughable) . The best extra is the gallery of exploitation art and ad-slicks for lots of ultra-rare alarm and trash flicks from the 60’s and 70’s. It’s accompanied by an audio track of rare radio spots including the eminent “Last House on the Left” - It’s Only a Movie residence, the “Impress of the Devil” - Vomit Bag situation and many more! All in all a sizable DVD. Rob It Now!
STORY: Seeking a gothic background for a panic photo shoot, five sexy mask girls and a handful of photographers atomize into what they win is an uninhabited castle and are soon taking a series of macabre stills in its dungeon. But-surprise!-residing in the castle is demented actor Travis Anderson (Mickey Hargitay) who thinks he’s the reincarnation of The Crimson Executioner, a 17th century madman whose body is entombed in the castle’s iron maiden. When Travis recognizes one of the models as his feeble fiancee, his already unhinged mind completely snaps. He gleefully subjects the trespassers to a variety of bizarre and elaborately-conceived tortures: “The Crimson Executioner cries out for blood!”
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PICTURE: 4/5 Where did Something Odd Video rep this print? It looks mammoth! Bloody Pit of Terror is shown here in PsychoVision (1.85:1) and like i said looks tremendous. The report is curious with nice stong colors and deep blacks. I only saw two scenes that had print hurt and it was not distracting at all. Overall, a substantial looking report for such a extinct film.
SOUND: 4/5 The sound is Mono English dubbed and sounds very righteous. The track is smart and sounds certain.
EXTRAS: 3/5 You salvage some really unfamiliar stuff here. First you rep the films trailer which does not witness no where as expedient as the film looks. Next you regain some deleted scenes, a long art galley with some frigid radio dwelling for a ton of other films and some curious short films.
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OVERALL: 5/5 If your a fan of movies that are so poor that there suited, then this DVD of Blood Pit of Alarm is for you. Take it up today. Plus, Mickey Hargitay’s performance as the Crimson Executioner is so crazy and goofy, you have to gawk it!
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