I greatly enjoyed the beginning, with the corpse and the rats. Incredible cinematography here, and throughout the film. The music was good too. The Funeral scene with the bagpipes was also incredible. The movie goes down hill from that point on. There was a vampire dream sequence that was decent, but not great.
The acting was decent for the most part. Jane Birkin as Corringa, and Hiram Keller as Lord James MacGrieff performed well. Keller in his introduction at the dinner scene was great. I did not like Anton Diffring as Dr. Franz, and Venantino Venantini as Padre Robertson performances. They were bland, and boring.
The Sets were great. Decent dialogue. I liked the part when Corringa was calling after the Kitty? We have a guy in an ape suite, he looks like a gorilla, but is referred to as an orangutan. That is a problem. I don't have an issue with someone having an ape, a killer ape. But there must be more to it than that. Plus he was killed off to cover the death of Dr. Franz, what happened there? This was directed by Antonio Margheriti. Same guy who made The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963) a.k.a. Horror Castle, which was an inferior garbage movie. He also made Battle of the Worlds (1961) a.k.a. The Planet of Extinct Men, starring Claude Rains, which I saw last year and I thought it was entertaining enough.
Now, this movie stars out great. Great production value. With gore and some shock. After the funeral scene this thing slows down, then it slows down more, the characters get weaker, the dialogue gets weaker, then toward the end, it was the Padre who is the killer. He was a member of the family, killed the real Padre, assumed his identity and tried to kill off the rest of his family for the fortune. Killer is shot dead by the cops in the last minute. Corringa and James hook up in a cousin/lover affair and live happily ever after. Sorry, that didn't work for me.
Because of the production value I was thinking a rating of B-, 6 stars. But thinking about the final outcome it is a C, 5 stars. Maybe worth checking out for the atmosphere and the cinematography/music but it is not a complete movie.
At least it is not a full on garbage fest like Virgins of Nuremberg, or and of the pile of crap that Argento has released on an unsuspecting public like to truly amateur garbage known as SUSPIRIA, or Four Flies, or Plumage. Or the completely overrated nonsense known as What Have You Done to Solange?, a true pile of bottom level filmmaking that garners CULT following. Or the Screaming Windows trash. Or anything by Bava, like the truly stupid cartoon trash of Planet of the Vampires, or Bay of Blood, or 5 Dolls for an August Moon. And at least Seven Dead is not a complete sell out like Star Wars VII, Force Awakens!
The acting was decent for the most part. Jane Birkin as Corringa, and Hiram Keller as Lord James MacGrieff performed well. Keller in his introduction at the dinner scene was great. I did not like Anton Diffring as Dr. Franz, and Venantino Venantini as Padre Robertson performances. They were bland, and boring.
The Sets were great. Decent dialogue. I liked the part when Corringa was calling after the Kitty? We have a guy in an ape suite, he looks like a gorilla, but is referred to as an orangutan. That is a problem. I don't have an issue with someone having an ape, a killer ape. But there must be more to it than that. Plus he was killed off to cover the death of Dr. Franz, what happened there? This was directed by Antonio Margheriti. Same guy who made The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963) a.k.a. Horror Castle, which was an inferior garbage movie. He also made Battle of the Worlds (1961) a.k.a. The Planet of Extinct Men, starring Claude Rains, which I saw last year and I thought it was entertaining enough.
Now, this movie stars out great. Great production value. With gore and some shock. After the funeral scene this thing slows down, then it slows down more, the characters get weaker, the dialogue gets weaker, then toward the end, it was the Padre who is the killer. He was a member of the family, killed the real Padre, assumed his identity and tried to kill off the rest of his family for the fortune. Killer is shot dead by the cops in the last minute. Corringa and James hook up in a cousin/lover affair and live happily ever after. Sorry, that didn't work for me.
Because of the production value I was thinking a rating of B-, 6 stars. But thinking about the final outcome it is a C, 5 stars. Maybe worth checking out for the atmosphere and the cinematography/music but it is not a complete movie.
At least it is not a full on garbage fest like Virgins of Nuremberg, or and of the pile of crap that Argento has released on an unsuspecting public like to truly amateur garbage known as SUSPIRIA, or Four Flies, or Plumage. Or the completely overrated nonsense known as What Have You Done to Solange?, a true pile of bottom level filmmaking that garners CULT following. Or the Screaming Windows trash. Or anything by Bava, like the truly stupid cartoon trash of Planet of the Vampires, or Bay of Blood, or 5 Dolls for an August Moon. And at least Seven Dead is not a complete sell out like Star Wars VII, Force Awakens!