Bloody Pit of Horror (1965) is an Italian‑American gothic horror film directed by Domenico Massimo Pupillo. It stars Mickey Hargitay as a reclusive former actor who believes himself to be the reincarnation of the medieval Crimson Executioner. When a group of models and photographers enters his isolated castle to shoot a horror photo‑novel, he dons the Executioner’s costume and begins torturing and killing them one by one.
The film blends lurid color cinematography, sadistic set‑pieces, and camp theatrics, making it a cult favorite among fans of 1960s European horror. It was released in Italy in 1965 and in the United States in 1967.
Film Details
Title: Bloody Pit of Horror
Original Title: Il boia scarlatto
Year: 1965
Genre: Gothic Horror
Director: Domenico Massimo Pupillo
Screenplay: Roberto Natale, Romano Migliorini
Story by: Roberto Natale, Romano Migliorini
Produced by: Francesco Merli, Ralph Zucker
Starring: Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi, Luisa Baratto, Ralph Zucker
Cinematography: Luciano Trasatti
Editing: Mariano Arditi
Music: Gino Peguri
Production Companies: M.B.S. Cinematografica, International Entertainment Corp.
Distributed by: M.B.S. Cinematografica (Italy), Pacemaker Pictures (US)
Release Dates:
28 November 1965 (Italy)
16 May 1967 (United States)
Runtime: 87 minutes
Countries: Italy / United States
Language: Italian
Box Office: ₤65 million
#BloodyPitOfHorror1965 #GothicHorror #MickeyHargitay #ItalianHorror #CrimsonExecutioner #1960sHorror #CultCinema
The film blends lurid color cinematography, sadistic set‑pieces, and camp theatrics, making it a cult favorite among fans of 1960s European horror. It was released in Italy in 1965 and in the United States in 1967.
Film Details
Title: Bloody Pit of Horror
Original Title: Il boia scarlatto
Year: 1965
Genre: Gothic Horror
Director: Domenico Massimo Pupillo
Screenplay: Roberto Natale, Romano Migliorini
Story by: Roberto Natale, Romano Migliorini
Produced by: Francesco Merli, Ralph Zucker
Starring: Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi, Luisa Baratto, Ralph Zucker
Cinematography: Luciano Trasatti
Editing: Mariano Arditi
Music: Gino Peguri
Production Companies: M.B.S. Cinematografica, International Entertainment Corp.
Distributed by: M.B.S. Cinematografica (Italy), Pacemaker Pictures (US)
Release Dates:
28 November 1965 (Italy)
16 May 1967 (United States)
Runtime: 87 minutes
Countries: Italy / United States
Language: Italian
Box Office: ₤65 million
#BloodyPitOfHorror1965 #GothicHorror #MickeyHargitay #ItalianHorror #CrimsonExecutioner #1960sHorror #CultCinema
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00:00:05On this fifth day of December in the year of our Lord 1648, by virtue of the power vested
00:00:11in us by our noble sovereign, this tribunal of justice hereby sentences you, the crimson
00:00:17executioner, to death.
00:00:20You will die by one of the very instruments you devised to torture and kill your innocent
00:00:25victims.
00:00:27You dared to take into your own hands the laws of both God and man.
00:00:32You set yourself up as both judge and executioner.
00:00:36You caused inhuman suffering and took life not from any sense of justice, but from hatred
00:00:42and self-gratification.
00:00:51You showed no mercy to your victims, and no mercy will be shown to you.
00:00:56You will never kill me.
00:00:59Move along.
00:01:00I will return and be avenged.
00:01:04Turn around.
00:01:05There, you fools.
00:01:08All of you.
00:01:09I am the crimson executioner.
00:01:20This day shall be written in blood.
00:01:22No man can judge me.
00:01:25No man can judge me.
00:01:25I am the supreme law.
00:01:27I shall have my revenge.
00:01:29No man can judge me.
00:01:30No man can judge me.
00:01:31No man can judge me.
00:01:35No man can judge me.
00:01:42No man can judge me.
00:01:44No man can judge me.
00:01:45No man can judge me.
00:01:47No man can judge me.
00:01:49No man can judge me.
00:01:49No man can judge me.
00:01:50No man can judge me.
00:01:52No man can judge me.
00:01:53No man can judge me.
00:01:55No man can judge me.
00:01:57No man can judge me.
00:01:59Oh, my God.
00:02:29Oh, my God.
00:02:57The seal of this tribunal will entomb forever both your body and your evil soul.
00:03:02Let no man dare to break the seal.
00:03:06You are accursed, eternally damned, as are these dungeons,
00:03:11as is this castle that has witnessed such indescribable horrors.
00:03:20Your castle will stand throughout the centuries as a reminder of the barbarism and cruelty committed within its walls.
00:03:28May the dust of time not erase from the memory of man the infamy of the crimson executioner.
00:03:34Executioner.
00:04:11Do you know what?
00:06:58We should be able to wrap up our work here in a day.
00:07:00This will look good.
00:07:04Come on, Nancy.
00:07:05Oh, gosh, I'm stiff from that long ride.
00:07:10It's made to order.
00:07:11Yeah.
00:07:37Hmm, what a view.
00:07:38Hey, we don't want to lose you.
00:07:40Hmm, sure looks gloomy.
00:07:42How would you girls like to have a castle this old to live in?
00:07:45You'd have to be a creep to live in a place like this.
00:07:48I'd love to have a house like this all for myself.
00:07:52Imagine the peace and beauty of living all alone.
00:07:55Hmm, you're a funny one, you're a funny one, all right.
00:07:59All right, girls.
00:08:01I wonder what it looks like inside.
00:08:03What's wrong?
00:08:04Are you tired?
00:08:05I don't know what it is, Perry.
00:08:07I just feel very uneasy.
00:08:09No.
00:08:09Oh, Susie.
00:08:11Let me alone, Raul.
00:08:12Don't be like that, baby.
00:08:14Everybody will see us.
00:08:15Have it your way.
00:08:16Are you all dead?
00:08:18Lay you any odds you want, our dear publisher will wind up saying,
00:08:22this place isn't suitable after all.
00:08:24Let's go home.
00:08:26Hello, is everybody out?
00:08:27If they're all out, how can anyone be in the house?
00:08:31Oh, the brain has spelled it out.
00:08:33I'm not just a dumb blonde, you know.
00:08:36Who says you're a blonde?
00:08:37Must be a blonde.
00:08:38Hello, why doesn't anybody answer?
00:08:40Maybe nobody lives here.
00:08:42What a nuisance.
00:08:44Someone should have told me the castle's empty.
00:08:46We might as well try to get in anyway.
00:08:50Maybe one of the boys could scale that wall.
00:08:53That's a job for Tarzan.
00:08:55Who's going to volunteer to climb the wall?
00:08:58Okay, okay.
00:08:59Here comes Uncle Perry, the greatest acrobat in the world.
00:09:08Watch this.
00:09:15He's a good boy.
00:09:17I bet he gets us inside.
00:09:19Yeah, you're right.
00:09:20Three years for unlawful breaking and entering.
00:09:38Take care, Perry.
00:09:51Max!
00:09:52You owe me a bonus for this little stunt, a double whiskey.
00:09:57All right, what about that?
00:09:58I still think you're playing with fire.
00:10:01You should know me by now.
00:10:02I'm not the kind of man to let obstacles get in my way.
00:10:04I'm a man of action.
00:10:07Well, what do we do now?
00:10:09We follow the leader.
00:10:10What else?
00:10:16Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the old family castle.
00:10:19Let's go.
00:10:46Let's go.
00:11:13Hey, what a funny place this is.
00:11:16Looks like a Frankenstein film set.
00:11:18Let's go.
00:11:26All right.
00:11:29Oh.
00:11:31Oh.
00:11:36Oh.
00:11:40Oh.
00:11:40Oh.
00:11:40Oh.
00:11:41Oh.
00:11:43Oh.
00:11:44Oh.
00:11:56Harry, there's something evil about this castle. I'm sure of it.
00:12:00You Hawaiians are far too impressionable, Kimuyo.
00:12:10Raoul?
00:12:13Raoul?
00:12:19Raoul?
00:12:26Raoul?
00:12:27You idiot!
00:12:32Why must you play these childish jokes all the time?
00:12:35Raoul?
00:12:39Raoul?
00:12:40Take off that silly costume!
00:12:58These uninhabited castles always have their family skeletons.
00:13:02Uninhabited? There's not a trace of dust around here.
00:13:07Who are you? What are you doing here?
00:13:11I'm very sorry. Nobody answered the doorbell and we thought the castle was empty.
00:13:18Could we speak to the owner?
00:13:22I'd like a word with him about a business matter.
00:13:25Could you take us to him?
00:13:26Follow me.
00:13:29Let's go.
00:13:44The rest of you wait in there.
00:13:51Stop where you are.
00:13:52How dare you force your way into my castle like this?
00:13:55What do you want here?
00:13:57I want to apologize. We didn't think anyone lived here, that's all.
00:14:00It's no excuse for trespassing. I don't like having my privacy disturbed.
00:14:05I'm sorry, sir. You're quite right. My name is Parks. I'd like to explain.
00:14:11We've been scouting for suitable locations to photograph material for book jackets. I'm a publisher.
00:14:17That's no concern of mine.
00:14:19Look here, I'd like to show you one of my books. I'm preparing an anthology of horror.
00:14:23He told you to stay where you were.
00:14:25We took the liberty of coming in here, only because no one answered our knocking at the door.
00:14:30I don't like intrusion. I insist that you leave my castle immediately.
00:14:35Could you make just one exception?
00:14:38We've been on the road for several days.
00:14:40Everybody's so tired.
00:14:42I don't want any visitors here.
00:14:43I'd be only too glad to pay, of course.
00:14:46Pay? Now you're beginning to annoy me, Mr. Parks.
00:14:55I know my friend didn't mean to offend you, and we asked you to forgive us.
00:15:11You and your practical jokes.
00:15:14Ralph.
00:15:16Ralph.
00:15:36Hey.
00:15:38Hey.
00:15:53on your feet everybody you've been told to shove off the master of the house doesn't like having
00:15:57visitors around what again oh no not after all i went through to get you in here so we're right
00:16:05back where we started one castle's too modern one's too old why don't we build our own and get it
00:16:10over
00:16:10with susie but wouldn't it cost an awful lot of money to build one huh oh can't you change his
00:16:17mind we're all tired well i'm tired too but we have no choice we've been told to go and that's
00:16:24it
00:16:25let's get moving quickly huh
00:16:32edus wait
00:16:35perhaps i was a little too hasty mr parks i'm not usually so inhospitable i realize you must all
00:16:41be very tired you see i don't usually receive people you can stay here overnight
00:16:47but i'll have to ask you to leave first thing in the morning thank you sir we really do appreciate
00:16:52your kind hospitality do you mind if we take a few pictures all right but please remember i don't like
00:17:00to be disturbed my servants will show you the chambers where you can do your work perfect let's
00:17:08get to work girls we mustn't waste any time go and change quickly dermot you'd better check out the
00:17:12setting we need edith you go along with him good girl come on you don't go near the dungeons they're
00:17:17absolutely out of bounds for everybody okay we won't get moving we're in a hurry
00:17:36i'll bet max will flip over this one can you imagine finding a thing like this here wasn't
00:17:41it lucky i'll take credit for that i found it yeah food for everybody hey max i want a bonus
00:17:47for
00:17:48finding this thing all right we'll see about the bonuses now it'll be perfect for the skeletrix series
00:17:53hey that looks great fine but now let's get to work i'll take the food to the girls right
00:17:58no i'll take care of that myself
00:18:09what a picture this will make
00:18:33what a picture this will make
00:18:38that there's no one you can see
00:18:38that there's no one you can see
00:18:38okay so
00:18:46oh max why don't you ever knock oh come on now what's all this nonsense i'm just like a father
00:18:53to you girls turn around we have to get into our costumes okay have your little games but
00:19:00hurry up we haven't any time to fool around we've got work to do
00:19:05you can turn around now if you want edith bring the girls downstairs we can't afford to waste any
00:19:13time all right how's the food terrible as usual nah bottle of wine they call it it tastes like water
00:19:32yeah it's awful isn't it but i know where we can find a real wine i discovered where the seller
00:19:36is
00:19:37come on i'll show you see you come on
00:20:19you know perry i wouldn't mind being the owner of this castle
00:20:25you can have it it gives me the creeps skeletons don't have nerves what do you mean it gives you
00:20:29the
00:20:57creeps
00:21:16Shhh, you'll wake up the ghosts.
00:21:19Come on, this way.
00:21:30Come on, this way.
00:22:09Now, don't breathe.
00:22:10Perfect like that.
00:22:16Hmm.
00:22:19All right, hold the pose.
00:22:21I want to take another shot.
00:22:22Edith, hand me the other camera, will you?
00:22:26Thanks.
00:22:27Now, don't move, darling.
00:22:29Hold it.
00:22:31You make a beautiful corpse, you do.
00:22:33Just keep it.
00:22:34That's right.
00:22:39Perfect.
00:22:42It's no fun being dead.
00:22:43Nobody ever said it was.
00:22:44You mean it?
00:22:45You were very convincing.
00:22:46Okay, gang, come on.
00:22:48Daddy will say when he sees this photo.
00:22:50Go and change now.
00:22:51Yeah.
00:22:53Okay, Susie, it's your turn now.
00:22:56Sure, here I am, but where's Perry?
00:22:58He's in it too.
00:22:59Here I am.
00:23:01Your personal skeleton, always ready to die at the hands of a beautiful woman.
00:23:05No, I'm going to change Annie's first.
00:23:07That's fine with me.
00:23:08You're never around when you're needed.
00:23:10Right, but look what I dug up for you.
00:23:12Oh.
00:23:14I'll go.
00:23:14That'll move.
00:23:18Rick, can I have your knife a minute?
00:23:22Thanks.
00:23:34What is it?
00:23:35Just a little homesick, I guess.
00:23:45Are you all asleep over there?
00:23:46Get behind that camera, Dermot.
00:23:49Here's the pistol, Dermot.
00:24:02Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop.
00:24:05Come on now.
00:24:08No, it's too heavy anyway.
00:24:10Look, Annie, let's try with a long sword, huh?
00:24:12It's as light as a feather, sweetheart.
00:24:13Let me show you.
00:24:21What's wrong with it?
00:24:23I can't unsheath it.
00:24:25It must be rusty.
00:24:29Don't just stand there looking.
00:24:31Help me.
00:24:31Let's pull together.
00:24:33Attica.
00:24:33Pull.
00:24:34Pull.
00:24:35Pull.
00:24:36Forget it.
00:24:36We don't need it.
00:24:37Okay, I want you to hold it aloft menacingly.
00:24:39It's not heavy.
00:24:40Annie, you can lift it without much effort at all.
00:24:42Watch.
00:24:44Lightness.
00:24:54Give me a hand, will you?
00:25:01Well, you do it, Annie.
00:25:03You've got the general idea anyway, haven't you?
00:25:06Ready?
00:25:08Hold it.
00:25:09Hold it.
00:25:46Come on, sweetie.
00:25:47Come on, sweetie.
00:26:28Come on, sweetie.
00:26:47Let me see what we can do here, huh?
00:26:52Oh, yeah.
00:26:54That's a possibility.
00:26:59Put your head down.
00:27:04Lower.
00:27:05Right on the block.
00:27:06What, haven't you ever been beheaded before?
00:27:09These actors.
00:27:11Put your arms down.
00:27:14That's more like it.
00:27:16Right?
00:27:17That's cool.
00:27:18Stay there.
00:27:20Now, then, give me the axe.
00:27:35Really, these actors.
00:27:42Hold it.
00:27:46Now, Nancy, honey, give me the feeling of a cat.
00:27:48Do you know what I mean?
00:27:49Meow.
00:27:50Meow.
00:27:51Meow.
00:27:52Pshh.
00:27:52Meow.
00:27:53Pshh.
00:27:55No, Nancy, that's too domesticated.
00:27:57I want you to think wild, fierce.
00:27:59Meow.
00:28:01Meow.
00:28:02Meow.
00:28:03Can't you think like an alley cat?
00:28:05For instance, you're about to fight another cat for a fish head or something.
00:28:09Meow.
00:28:10No, no, Nancy.
00:28:11That's the intellectual approach.
00:28:12You'll never be an alley cat.
00:28:13Let's try something else.
00:28:14I've got an idea.
00:28:16There.
00:28:16Now, raise your leg up.
00:28:18Up.
00:28:19Up.
00:28:20Up.
00:28:21Up.
00:28:21Up.
00:28:21That's it.
00:28:22That's it.
00:28:23Now, imagine you're floating in the air like a thistle blown by the wind.
00:28:28That's it.
00:28:29Beautiful.
00:28:29No.
00:28:30No, not like that.
00:28:31You've got to go up.
00:28:33Gently.
00:28:34That's right, baby.
00:28:35Now, hold it.
00:28:36No.
00:28:36No.
00:28:36Can't you keep that arm over your head?
00:28:38Now, everything's in place.
00:28:39Arm, leg, head, everything.
00:28:43Now, don't move.
00:28:46Come on, Nancy.
00:28:47Get that lovely foot of yours up like a feather, like a thistle blown by the wind.
00:28:51No.
00:28:52No, I can't.
00:28:53It's too heavy.
00:28:55I can't.
00:28:56Oh, do it for me, baby.
00:28:57Let's fly together, hold it.
00:29:08What are you writing?
00:29:10Oh, just started another one of the usual murder mysteries my readers love.
00:29:22This is one of yours, too?
00:29:24Yes, of course.
00:29:48Rick, I could fall in love with a man like you.
00:29:58You're a swell guy.
00:30:00I could.
00:30:00I really mean it.
00:30:02Nothing.
00:30:03You're a sweet girl, Nancy, but you deserve something better than a man like me.
00:30:13May I have this, Rick?
00:30:14Sure, why not?
00:30:17Go ahead, Edith.
00:30:18Go ahead without me.
00:30:18There's something I want to look into.
00:30:21Okay, Edith.
00:30:22We'll set up the next shot in the meantime.
00:30:25Camera about here.
00:30:33There.
00:30:34Dermot, can we take a break for a few minutes?
00:30:36No.
00:30:37No, no.
00:30:37We've got to be finished before morning.
00:30:39Put the spots over there.
00:30:40Okay.
00:30:49What are you doing here?
00:30:50I'd like to see the owner of the house.
00:30:52It's not possible.
00:30:53My master doesn't want to be disturbed.
00:30:54But tell him...
00:30:55I said it's impossible.
00:30:56Your master has a right to his privacy, but...
00:30:59That's no way to speak to a lady.
00:31:02Rick.
00:31:07You met the owner of the house.
00:31:09What's he like?
00:31:10It's difficult to say, really.
00:31:11He was half hidden behind a table.
00:31:14Have you noticed the windows?
00:31:16They're all barred.
00:31:18What a strange place.
00:31:20If I was still a reporter, I bet I could discover...
00:31:23a lot of interesting facts about this castle.
00:31:27Rick.
00:31:27Rick, but why are you wasting your time on horror stories?
00:31:30You should be doing the kind of work you were cut out for.
00:31:34Reporting.
00:31:35I guess you're right, but I'm a little lazy.
00:31:37I've been taking the easy way out by doing this.
00:31:39I started out with the usual dreams...
00:31:41and found out there's more money...
00:31:42than writing this kind of commercial book.
00:31:45Edith, I realize I'm being indiscreet...
00:31:48but why did you want to speak to the owner of the castle?
00:31:51Just curiosity.
00:31:53Nothing more than that.
00:31:58Everything's ready, Dermot.
00:31:59Can I go?
00:32:00Not more than a few minutes, though.
00:32:01Time's running short.
00:32:02You bet.
00:32:03Come on, Susie.
00:32:04Don't pull me like that.
00:32:05Then come on.
00:32:06But where?
00:32:06Oh, come on.
00:32:07Okay, I'm all set.
00:32:09Everybody out of the way.
00:32:11That's right.
00:32:12Hold that pose, Perry.
00:32:14Don't move.
00:32:15I'll be done in a minute.
00:32:16Now, here we go.
00:32:29Oh, my God.
00:32:44I seem to know as soon as we arrived,
00:32:46this was a place of evil.
00:32:49And Perry laughed and said that I was being emotional.
00:32:59Raul, didn't you hear that yell?
00:33:00I didn't hear anything at all.
00:33:02Come along.
00:33:02Where are you taking it?
00:33:03You'll find out.
00:33:09Look at that.
00:33:10What is it?
00:33:12I don't know.
00:33:13Maybe it was an old torture cell.
00:33:15Raul, you know these old castles.
00:33:18Nothing in it.
00:33:21Let me alone, Raul.
00:33:23I'm scared.
00:33:25Susie.
00:33:27Susie.
00:33:28I don't know.
00:33:30I don't know.
00:33:40I don't know.
00:33:40I don't know.
00:33:43I don't know.
00:33:48I don't know.
00:33:50I don't know.
00:33:52I don't know.
00:33:55I don't know.
00:33:57I don't know.
00:33:57I don't know.
00:33:58I don't know.
00:33:58Come, Canuyo. Staying here won't help any. Come with me.
00:34:05There's no point in disturbing my master.
00:34:08He's been informed already of what has happened down here.
00:34:12And he hopes that you will all remain calm.
00:34:15The rope was badly worn, Rick. We overlooked that, I'm afraid.
00:34:19What are you going to do now?
00:34:22I don't know.
00:34:26We'll see.
00:34:30Remember, Rick, even the master of the house suggested that we keep calm.
00:34:34Tomorrow we notify the police.
00:34:35What do you mean, tomorrow?
00:34:36Listen, after all, it was only an accident.
00:34:39A tragic one, but an accident.
00:34:42And besides, it's too late now.
00:34:44Look, Max, this double talk leaves me cold.
00:34:46What do you really mean?
00:34:49Well, I'm an editor.
00:34:53You've got to see my point.
00:34:55I have a deadline to meet.
00:35:17I know exactly how you feel, girls.
00:35:19But we must finish our work before daybreak.
00:35:22With poor Perry lying dead?
00:35:24Oh, it's a big tragedy.
00:35:25You know, Perry was like a son to me.
00:35:27Don't you think I have a heart like the rest of you?
00:35:29How do I know?
00:35:31I never had a chance to see it.
00:35:34Perry would have known what I meant.
00:35:36Yeah, but he's dead.
00:35:38And I want to go on living.
00:35:42I'll double your salary.
00:35:43My life's worth more than that.
00:35:46Triple it.
00:35:47Okay, it's a deal.
00:35:48Me too.
00:35:49Then let's get back to work.
00:35:51Where's Susie?
00:35:52I think she went off with Raul.
00:35:54It's just like her.
00:35:55They always disappear at the wrong moment.
00:35:58We'll worry about her later.
00:35:59Let's go back to work now.
00:36:01Well, I thought I'd seen just about everything.
00:36:04But this kind of bargaining is really more than I can stand.
00:36:07Rick, look at this.
00:36:09What is it?
00:36:13It's the negative of the photograph I took right when the accident occurred.
00:36:19Poor Perry.
00:36:20What a terrible thing.
00:36:24What's this?
00:36:26What's that strange shadow near the frame of the door?
00:36:31It almost looks like a man's head.
00:36:32Yes, it does.
00:36:35That's exactly what I thought.
00:36:38But it just can't be.
00:36:41Still, it does look like a man's head with a hood on.
00:36:46Oh!
00:36:56Oh!
00:36:58Oh!
00:36:59Oh!
00:37:00Oh!
00:37:01Oh!
00:37:01Oh!
00:37:08Oh!
00:37:09Oh!
00:37:11Oh!
00:37:14Oh!
00:37:18Oh!
00:37:27Oh!
00:37:30Oh!
00:37:30Oh!
00:37:32Oh!
00:37:32Oh!
00:37:33No! No!
00:37:39No! No!
00:37:59Will it show up more clearly on the print?
00:38:01It should.
00:38:03We'll see in a minute.
00:38:06I've done the best I could.
00:38:09Of course, it's only a small detail.
00:38:15There.
00:38:17This is the maximum enlargement I can make here.
00:38:21Of course, it's still not very clear.
00:38:25Hmm.
00:38:27This doesn't help us very much, I'm afraid.
00:38:29It's hardly at all visible.
00:38:31Huh? Do you think the negative could have been defective?
00:38:34No, it was perfect.
00:38:35May I see that photograph?
00:38:45I heard about the accident that took place tonight.
00:38:48A most appalling accident.
00:38:52Unfortunately, it's blurred.
00:38:54Yeah, it was out of focus.
00:38:57Perhaps this will sound strange.
00:39:00But I've something to tell you that may provide an explanation of the shadow in your photograph.
00:39:08Have you ever heard of the Crimson Executioner?
00:39:12Who did you say?
00:39:14The Crimson Executioner?
00:39:15He was a maniac and a killer who was put to death for his crime centuries ago.
00:39:19He was buried in his own castle.
00:39:21What you don't know is that this is the castle where the Crimson Executioner lived and died.
00:39:26When I came here, the castle had been uninhabited for centuries.
00:39:31For me, it was ideal because I desired solitude.
00:39:34Everybody else feared the curse that had been placed on it.
00:39:38When they sealed up his tomb, the Crimson Executioner swore that he would avenge himself.
00:39:43He was a man of extraordinary physical strength.
00:39:49Obsessed by an ideal of purity.
00:39:51For centuries, he was entombed.
00:39:54There in the dungeons, an only seal has protected mankind from its supernatural powers.
00:40:01If the shadow in the photograph is the Crimson Executioner, I fear anything might happen.
00:40:08I had to tell you.
00:40:24I can see you two already know each other.
00:40:26I've never had the pleasure.
00:40:28This is the first time I've seen this lady.
00:40:36I must retire now.
00:40:38I'm a creature of habit.
00:40:41I hope you will sleep well.
00:40:45Good night.
00:40:54Edith, I...
00:40:54I know the acts that upset you.
00:40:57You're terribly tired.
00:40:58What happened was a very bad shock for you.
00:41:02Stop crying now.
00:41:03Go to Canoe, you, hmm?
00:41:09She's been through more than the rest of us.
00:41:12Hmm?
00:41:12Come on.
00:41:42You think it's too daring?
00:41:44No.
00:41:44I bet Max will like it.
00:41:46He always does.
00:41:50Hi, girls.
00:41:51Has Susie come back yet?
00:41:52No.
00:41:53Maybe we should go on without her.
00:41:54She'll be along.
00:41:58You'll make a big hit in that costume, Annie.
00:42:01Won't I, too?
00:42:02What?
00:42:03Oh, no.
00:42:04What's gotten into you?
00:42:05You mustn't hide those beautiful legs of yours.
00:42:17They desecrated your world of beauty.
00:42:22With their sordidness, the day of the Crimson Executioner has now come.
00:42:30I've been wondering about the owner of this castle.
00:42:33Well, if you want my opinion, I think he's slightly off his neck.
00:42:35You would be, too.
00:42:36If you lived isolated in this place, you'd end up the same way he is.
00:42:41Hey, Dermot.
00:42:42Yeah?
00:42:43Look at this.
00:42:44This must be where the executioner was killed, if the legend is true.
00:42:48What is it?
00:42:49It looks like a coffin.
00:42:51No, it was a medieval instrument of torture.
00:42:53The infamous iron mailing.
00:43:03Susie!
00:43:04What?
00:43:19No one can dare say that this was an accident.
00:43:48Just as I thought, the rope wasn't worn.
00:43:51It was cut.
00:43:55At this point, there's only one explanation.
00:43:58Deliberate murder.
00:44:01Deliberate murder.
00:44:03But why, Rick?
00:44:04It doesn't make any sense.
00:44:06That's what we've got to find out.
00:44:08Any idea where Raul is?
00:44:10Raul?
00:44:11No, no.
00:44:11I don't mean he had anything to do with this.
00:44:14But perhaps he saw who did it.
00:44:17He was near Susie all the time.
00:44:20Here.
00:44:20Take this.
00:44:21My car is the fastest we have.
00:44:23Go to the nearest police station and try and get help.
00:44:25Okay, Rick.
00:44:26I will.
00:44:27But how about you?
00:44:29Hmm?
00:44:29What are you going to do?
00:44:31Stay here?
00:44:32With a murderer at large, you're all in danger.
00:44:34I know, but it's impossible to leave with things as they are.
00:44:36And we've got to find Raul.
00:44:38He might have some evidence.
00:44:39I'll be as fast as I can.
00:44:58How much longer do we have to wait now?
00:45:02We get paid.
00:45:03Why should you care?
00:45:09Well, you get prettier by the minute, girls.
00:45:11Take a look at this, Max.
00:45:12I have a new idea.
00:45:14I don't want the girls to know this yet.
00:45:17Susie's been murdered.
00:45:18What's that?
00:45:19So you like the idea?
00:45:20Oh, sure.
00:45:21It's great.
00:45:22You'd better watch out.
00:45:23Germit's already on his way to the police station.
00:45:25Don't tell the girls.
00:45:26They'd only get panicky.
00:45:27But then Perry was killed, too.
00:45:28We completely agree, then.
00:45:29Well, what do we do now?
00:45:31I'll have a look around.
00:45:32You'd better stay with the girls.
00:45:34See you later.
00:46:08What are you doing here?
00:46:09I want to see your master right away.
00:46:10No, he doesn't want to see anybody.
00:46:11It's urgent that I see him no matter what.
00:46:13Understand?
00:46:13I said you can't see him.
00:46:25Edith, what are you doing here?
00:46:28I want you to see what I found.
00:46:34I'm sure you recognize her.
00:46:36Edith, what's your portrait doing in this castle?
00:46:39Then you do know the owner.
00:46:41Yes.
00:46:42Travis and I were engaged.
00:46:44Travis Anderson.
00:46:44Isn't he the actor who disappeared several years ago?
00:46:47Yes.
00:46:47He used to be a muscle man in costume films.
00:46:51It all happened so suddenly, so unexpectedly.
00:46:55He left without a word.
00:46:56He just vanished.
00:46:57He's always been a little strange.
00:47:01Even with me, he seemed so cold.
00:47:04Yet I'm certain that he really loved me.
00:47:07In all this time, I haven't stopped wondering why he ever disappeared like that.
00:47:13Now I found him here in this castle.
00:47:15I thought I recognized his voice.
00:47:17And now that I've found this, I know it's Travis.
00:47:19I must try to speak to him.
00:47:21Edith, we have no time for that.
00:47:23You've got to trust me.
00:47:24What is it?
00:47:25I'll tell you later.
00:47:27Where's Canoe Yore?
00:47:28I left her downstairs when I went to find Travis.
00:47:30There's not a moment to lose.
00:47:31We must find her.
00:47:33What's happened, Rick?
00:47:34Don't ask any questions.
00:47:34Hurry.
00:47:38We've got to reach the others.
00:47:39It's important that we all stay together.
00:47:41But what's going on?
00:47:42I don't understand.
00:47:45Canoe Yore.
00:47:48Canoe Yore.
00:48:00Canoe Yore.
00:48:02Watch out, Rick.
00:48:07Don't try to get any closer to me or you'll get killed.
00:48:11There's no escape for me.
00:48:12I know it.
00:48:13You must save yourselves.
00:48:14Well, there's still a chance.
00:48:17Don't you see?
00:48:18It's a diabolical trap.
00:48:21It's impossible for anyone to reach me.
00:48:24These wires are connected to the bows on the walls.
00:48:26The slightest touch will release the arrows in every direction.
00:48:30And anyone nearby will be killed.
00:48:32Nobody can stop the mechanism that operates.
00:48:35The spider.
00:48:37It has poison in its claws.
00:48:40I'll be killed the moment it reaches me.
00:48:46No, it's hopeless.
00:48:49Watch out, Rick.
00:48:53Don't do it, Rick.
00:48:56You'll be killed.
00:49:14I tell you, it's hopeless.
00:49:16Don't do it, Rick.
00:49:17Leave me.
00:49:18It's no use.
00:49:30Please don't come any closer.
00:49:32You're mad to us to your life like this.
00:49:35You're mad.
00:49:35Oh, my God.
00:50:09Rick!
00:50:51Rick, your jacket's caught!
00:51:01Rick, your jacket's caught!
00:51:27Rick!
00:51:27It's all over for me.
00:51:30It's the end for all of us.
00:51:53Give up, Rick.
00:51:54It's no use.
00:51:55It's too late.
00:51:57Rick!
00:52:01Rick!
00:52:06Rick!
00:52:07Rick!
00:52:30Canoio.
00:52:34Canoio.
00:52:35Canoio.
00:52:40What a horrible death. I've got to get her down from here.
00:52:44Edith, go find the others. Hurry up.
00:52:46You've got to get out of the castle at once, at once.
00:52:49No, no, Rick, no. Not without you.
00:52:52What would I tell you?
00:52:56Go away, Edith. Go away. Don't worry about me.
00:53:00Derbert will be back here soon with the police.
00:53:07The police call the police.
00:53:08I'm up ask him.
00:53:29End of the police.
00:53:40Open the door!
00:53:42Let us out!
00:53:43Let us out!
00:53:45It's no use.
00:53:46We've been locked in.
00:53:47No!
00:53:48What do we do?
00:53:48Max!
00:53:49Max, what's happening?
00:53:50Where are the others?
00:53:52I don't know, but don't lose your heads.
00:53:54Just come on down here.
00:53:56Go and tell Rick that we need him.
00:53:57All right.
00:53:59Rick, we have to get out of here.
00:54:08Rick!
00:54:09Rick, all the doors are locked.
00:54:11We can't get out.
00:54:12Keep calm, Edith.
00:54:13We'll make it somehow.
00:54:14Just a minute.
00:54:32Eat it!
00:54:36Eat it!
00:54:38Eat it!
00:54:40Eat it!
00:55:06Travis!
00:55:08Don't come any nearer. Don't touch me.
00:55:14You were the murderer.
00:55:17Now I know it, Travis.
00:55:22How could you?
00:55:23You're a monster!
00:55:25A monster!
00:55:26Oh, no!
00:55:29You.
00:55:30You no longer mean anything to me.
00:55:33Even though I missed you when I abandoned the world.
00:55:43I was forced to retreat to this castle.
00:55:48Mankind is made up of inferior creatures.
00:55:52Spiritually and physically deformed.
00:55:54Who would have corrupted the harmony of my perfect body.
00:56:36I...
00:56:37I came to the isolation of this castle to avoid the contagion of human sentiment.
00:56:49And a woman's love...
00:56:51And a woman's love...
00:56:57Would have destroyed me.
00:57:07It's because of that...
00:57:12I abandoned you.
00:57:14Travis, you've lost your sanity.
00:57:16You're an egotist.
00:57:19You're an egotist.
00:57:19Obsessed with your sick thoughts.
00:57:21You're wrong, Edith.
00:57:23Last night I had a moment of weakness because of you.
00:57:30When I first caught sight of you...
00:57:36And I said you could stay together with your friends.
00:57:40But that was a mistake.
00:57:47I know of only one who was never overcome by weakness.
00:57:52The Crimson Executioner.
00:57:54He despised your world.
00:57:58As passionately as I do.
00:58:01Look at him.
00:58:03Look at him.
00:58:04Look at him.
00:58:08His magnificent body was preserved intact through all these centuries undisturbed.
00:58:18His spirit lives in me.
00:58:20And I'll continue his mission of vengeance.
00:58:25This is the sacred duty I've sworn to.
00:58:28We're alike.
00:58:37Now...
00:58:38That you have profaned his tomb.
00:58:40And broken the seal.
00:58:43That imprisoned his great spirit.
00:58:46His power has been released at last.
00:58:54And his noble crusade against sin lives again through me.
00:59:07Yes.
00:59:08The black fire...
00:59:10Of the long awaited vengeance is here.
00:59:16And your friends...
00:59:18Cannot escape.
00:59:22The Crimson Executioner has passed judgment.
00:59:28The Crimsonantee.
00:59:30The Crimson Decisioner.
00:59:32The Crimson Decisioner.
00:59:38The Crimson Decisioner.
00:59:39And now...
00:59:41At last...
00:59:43You'll witness the glory of His return.
00:59:50And you'll pay just like the others.
01:00:02Travis, don't do it!
01:00:05Come back!
01:00:23Come back!
01:00:58Now you'll be punished for your lechery, too!
01:01:10That Crimson Executioner will torture you, yes, will torture you till death.
01:01:23Come back!
01:01:25Come back!
01:01:28Come back!
01:01:29Come back!
01:01:35Come back!
01:01:49Come back!
01:01:52Come back!
01:02:06Come back!
01:02:20Come back!
01:02:23Come back!
01:02:50Come back!
01:02:52Come back!
01:02:56Come back!
01:03:05Come back!
01:03:06Come back!
01:03:10Come back!
01:03:13Come back!
01:03:23Come back!
01:03:58Come back!
01:04:21Come back!
01:04:30Come back!
01:04:35Come back!
01:04:35Come back!
01:04:53Come back!
01:05:16Come back!
01:05:26Come back!
01:05:27Come back!
01:05:32Come back!
01:05:42Come back!
01:05:46Come back!
01:05:58Come back!
01:06:07Come back!
01:06:10Come back!
01:06:12Come back!
01:06:14Come back!
01:06:18Come back!
01:06:29Come back!
01:06:32Come back!
01:06:41All right!
01:06:43I don't know.
01:07:14I don't know.
01:07:49I can't stand it anymore.
01:07:51Let me go.
01:07:53The Crimson Executioner invented the torture of icy water for creatures like you.
01:08:19My vengeance needs blood.
01:08:26The Crimson Executioner cries out for blood.
01:08:54You better prepare to die.
01:08:56You sinner!
01:08:57No!
01:09:06No!
01:09:11No!
01:09:14No!
01:09:18No!
01:09:26No!
01:09:37No!
01:09:38No!
01:09:39No!
01:09:48No!
01:09:50No!
01:10:03No!
01:10:05No!
01:10:06No!
01:10:07No!
01:10:09No!
01:10:09No!
01:10:10No!
01:10:14No!
01:10:21No!
01:10:24No!
01:10:31Oh, my God.
01:10:56Oh, my God.
01:11:27Oh, my God.
01:11:30Oh, my God.
01:11:32Oh, my God.
01:11:43Oh, my God.
01:11:59Oh, my God.
01:12:07Oh, my God.
01:12:24Oh, my God.
01:12:54Yes, but where are you, Edith?
01:12:55Watch out!
01:13:06Oh, my God.
01:13:24Oh, my God.
01:13:48Oh, my God.
01:14:18You're impure.
01:14:19You're impure.
01:14:19This fire will cleanse you.
01:14:21No, you can't do this to me.
01:14:23Stop.
01:14:24Stop.
01:14:25Stop.
01:14:26No, I don't want to die like this.
01:14:28No.
01:14:29No, let me out.
01:14:30Oh, my God.
01:14:33Oh, my God.
01:15:08Oh, my God.
01:15:35You're a new lover.
01:15:38There he is, the lover of death.
01:15:40Embrace his poisonous hands.
01:15:42Go on, he's waiting.
01:16:06Go on, he's waiting.
01:16:07Go on, he's waiting.
01:16:37I don't want to die.
01:16:38Embrace him.
01:16:38No, no.
01:16:41Embrace him.
01:16:42No.
01:16:43Why do you resist?
01:16:44Annie, let's go.
01:16:46Ah.
01:16:49Annie.
01:17:01No.
01:17:01No.
01:17:02No.
01:17:03No.
01:17:04Let me go.
01:17:05Let me go.
01:17:07No.
01:17:08No.
01:17:09Ow.
01:17:11Ow.
01:17:11Ow.
01:17:12Ow.
01:17:13Ow.
01:17:13All right.
01:18:05Now it's your turn.
01:18:07Oh, Travis!
01:18:08You'll pay too.
01:18:09No! No!
01:18:13Let me go!
01:18:15Stop!
01:18:17Let me go!
01:18:19Travis, don't!
01:18:21Don't!
01:18:22Please stop!
01:18:25Please let me go!
01:18:29You're mad!
01:18:35No!
01:18:37No!
01:18:40Don't do this to me!
01:18:48No!
01:18:54No!
01:18:54Oh!
01:18:55Oh!
01:18:56Oh!
01:18:58Oh!
01:19:00The executioner has risen from his tomb.
01:19:03Your atonement has just begun.
01:19:11It's done. I killed the writer.
01:19:15It's not true.
01:19:16No, it's impossible.
01:19:20No.
01:19:20They'll all die.
01:19:25No, I can't stand it.
01:19:28Oh, no, I beg you, Travis.
01:19:31What you're doing is insane, Travis.
01:19:33Oh, my God.
01:19:41The Crimson Executioner.
01:19:47No. Go away.
01:19:50I am the Crimson Executioner.
01:20:07It's impossible.
01:20:08It can't be.
01:20:10It's impossible that he's alive, I tell you.
01:20:12I killed him myself.
01:20:14I saw him die.
01:20:15It wasn't me you murdered.
01:20:17You hit the dead body of Pooh around.
01:20:19I put his corpse in the tower, and that's what your arrow hits.
01:20:21You'll have to try again.
01:20:23Kill him!
01:20:26Go on.
01:20:27Go on.
01:20:29Kill him, I said.
01:20:38Oh.
01:20:43Oh.
01:20:48Oh.
01:20:49Oh, my God.
01:21:32Oh, my God.
01:21:51Watch out, Rick.
01:22:20Oh, my God.
01:22:35Oh, my God.
01:23:05Oh, my God.
01:23:11Oh, my God.
01:23:22Oh, my God.
01:23:38Oh, my God.
01:23:45Oh, my God.
01:23:50And the poisonous clutches of the lover of death.
01:24:05Oh, my God.
01:24:07Oh, my God.
01:24:15My body.
01:24:17My body.
01:24:18My pure body.
01:24:25Has been contaminated.
01:24:28The body of the crimson executioner.
01:24:35Oh, my God.
01:24:38Oh, my God.
01:25:02Oh, my God.
01:25:29Oh, my God.
01:25:29He created the legendary executioner in his own image.
01:25:33The crimson executioner's been dust for centuries.
01:25:36It was terrible.
01:25:38Please take me away from this castle.
01:25:40It was a nightmare.
01:25:42It was a nightmare.
01:25:42I won't write any more horror stories.
01:25:44The man that said life is stranger than fiction made no mistake.
01:25:49Oh, my God.
01:25:49Oh, my God.
01:26:03Oh, my God.
01:26:06Oh, my God.
01:26:10Oh, my God.
01:26:14Oh, my God.
01:26:16Oh, my God.
01:26:17Oh, my God.
01:26:19Oh, my God.
01:26:20Oh, my God.
01:26:22Oh, my God.
01:26:24Oh, my God.
01:26:25Oh, my God.
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