Good concept, poorly executed.

Did you people see the same film I saw?

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

A deranged aristocrat lures women to his mansion so that he can murder them. He is only interested in red heads because his late wife, Evelyn, was one. He caught her cheating prior to her death so now wants to punish all red headed women.Then all hell breaks lose. This is a giallo, so of course nothing is as it seems. "Lord Alan" apparently really is a murderer, but he isn't the only one. He's wealthy and he's crazy, so there is an elaborate scheme afoot with people making plans to separate him from his sanity and his money, whichever comes first.The plot is just far too complicated, and the movie far too boring, to be bothered keeping up with. The idea of an aristocrat taking babes back to his villa to toy with before killing seems to have promise, but there's not a single memorable scene in this boring movie.

If 90 plus minutes of women's crotch shots, bulging breasts and naked butts give you a cinematic thrill, then this movie should be right up your porn drenched alley. But for lovers of Gothic horror with a grand sense of guignol, then skip it. The sadomasochistic themes are overdone with wealthy Anthony Steffan the sleaziest of all Euro trash lovers using every beautiful female he meets for his sick pleasures. Whipping their almost completely naked bodies, he simply gets off on the pain he makes them endure. Finally finding one he claims to love, he gets impulsively married, and even his proposal seems perverted. Well, certain strange occurrences makes the new bride suspicious, leading to the possibility of her own fate being just as violent. Then, there's the revelation about the title character, Steffan's first wife, whose apparent infidelities drove him over the edge in the first place.Set in the present day, this tries to give off a feeling of period Gothic horror but fails on every level. The film manages to be perverse and disturbingly violent with such sequences as a man in the way getting a sudden snake bite and realizing that his assassin is burying him while his last few breaths struggle to leave him. A wheelchair bound Aunt (who appears to be younger than her nephew) also gets a disturbing fate. I get a sense of hatred towards women in this, both through Steffen and the writer and director, making all of the women passive and subservient sexually and emotionally. The film becomes difficult to tolerate and poor quality in the editing and musical score gives it a truly dated feel. With all the badly made cheap horror films of the late 1960's and early 70's, I rank this among the worse. The conclusion makes absolutely no sense. I subtitle it "Taste the Blood of Perversion".

A wealthy English lord is suffering a mental breakdown following the death of his red-headed wife, Evelyn, whom he feared was cheating on him. He tours local bars and dives, scouring for lovely red-heads willing to come back to his decaying castle in the country, where he seduces them, then tortures and kills them. His friend the doctor talks him into marrying again to help heal his slowly-rotting mind, which he does--but are the doctor's orders really what he needs?Crazy dubbed crappy S&M movie disguised as art. Jekyll and Hyde nut case goes in and out of lunacy. But it doesn't matter which side of the fence he's on, he still gets the chicks and you will find sleep coming on strong.

At times incoherent, this Italian Gothic horror piece has a wealthy aristocrat (Steffen) suffering from a psychotic in-balance that causes him to lure pretty red-heads and lookalikes of his deceased wife Evelyn to his dilapidated castle, for S&M and more. His doctor (Rossi-Stuart) is concerned about his condition and recommends he find a new wife - which he does in Malfatti, but things quickly deteriorate between the newlyweds when "Evelyn" appears to rise from her crypt.Disjointed in parts with hokey special effects and poorly contrived plot set-ups, it's often described as "giallo", but I'd disagree with that definition being applied. Gothic horror perhaps, but the essence of giallo (everyday man witnesses an apparent crime, assumes amateur detective role, becomes the target of the killer) isn't present. The cast is reasonably proficient, although the dubbing is atrocious.Not as violent or sadistic as I'd read, the scene in which the pet foxes "dine-in" on one of the scheming relatives isn't nearly as brutal as reputed (it's also very difficult to discern what's happening by virtue of the poor lighting). Atmospheric at times, the suspense never holds you for very long before it's back to the awfully dubbed dialogue and somewhat puerile haunted castle effects (endless mist, storms, creaking boards and cobwebs). There's a twist ending which partially redeems the movie, but it's too little too late and leaves a gaping plot hole in its explanation that won't go unnoticed.