Michael Ledo A group of people are looking for a castle for a calendar girl photo shoot. They find a castle occupied my a modern Marquis de Sade who must torture and kill sinners in unique ways."Bloody Pit of Horror" is the US cut version, 9 minutes shorter than the original, released under the title "A Tale of Torture." The cut scenes had to do with film quality ad not content. Body Builder Mickey Hargitay is in this film for the ladies and there are a lot of scantily clad women for the guys. Max, an older guy, walks in on the ladies while they are changing and doesn't brag about it to Howard Stern.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

radiobirdma Before special effects wizard and triple Academy Award winner Carlo Rambaldi worked on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, Dune and E.T., he created not only the legendary size-doesn't-matter giant spider, but also the Lover of Death rag doll and the Tittie-Slice Rotating System for Massimo Pupillo's Bloody Pit of Horror. When Jayne Mansfield's ex-hubby Mickey Hargitay ("Mr. Universe 1958") heard that Fellini cinematographer Luciano Trasatti (I Vitelloni) was on board as well, he happily signed the 1000-Lire-contract to star as The Crimson Executioner, a saucy blend of Batman's Robin, Bertie Bizarro and the Muscle Beach Molester. Though credited to the influence of the Marquis de Sade, the script much more obviously refers to Octave Mirbeau's pre-surreal torture classic Le Jardin des supplices – a highly inventive, stranger-than-fiction dungeon purification wackorama with Hargitay in the role of his life: "The Executioner will torture you ... to death." Probably for a reason: Two years before, Jayne had booted him out of The Pink Palace, their Beverly Hills mansion with the famous heart-shaped pool. He, former plumber Mickey Hargitay, had built it himself, and that's why the Torture of Icy Water has the master touch. Got the subtext? Spell it out, not too loud: This is catharsis.

JoeB131 Yup. This is early 1960's Italian Torture Porn. Without much torture or porn.A team of models stops by an ancient castle that owned by a crazy actor lives. Somehow, he flips and starts using torture devices to pick off and kill the characters, who express their amazement in awful, dubbed voices, a lot of which sound the same because back in those days, that's what they did with imports from Italy. They got one or two actors with no vocal range to do all the voices.Mickey Hagritay gets to show off his muscles, and that's something, I guess. There's a lot of scenes where they almost build up to showing us female nudity.But really, there's just a lot of silliness here for no reason.

lemon_magic I'm not sure whether the version I saw on archive.org was uncensored, but whatever version I saw, it's obvious that the film makers pulled out all the stops on this one. Which is to say that this is trash, but it's high energy, entertaining trash.We've got Mr. Second String Bodybuilder Guy playing (actually, I think he looks great for the part, but he's no Steve Reeves) a homicidal maniac who believes that he is possessed by the spirit of another homicidal maniac from medieval times. He kills off his guests when one of them turns out to be a girlfriend from his previous life. He left her and withdrew from the world, you see, because she was corrupting his bodily fluids or some such.(BTW,how does a "strongman" get the money to buy and maintain an ancient medieval castle and a couple of henchmen,anyway?) The sight of her is too much for him, and he apparently feels that their presence imperils the purity of his bodily fluids again, so nothing will do but that he entrap and torture and/or kill the guests one by one.Anyway, the character is a real piece of work, and the actor who plays him is a hoot - he chews the scenery, flexes his nice shiny oiled muscles, and leaps around his torture dungeon to work on his victims with a glee befitting a 6 year old on Christmas.Gets extra points for a few nicely imagined death-traps and an admirable hero who tackles each new challenge and set back with stoic resolve. Docked several stars for some of the lamest choreographed fight sequences you can imagine - seriously, the last three deaths make no sense at all in terms of the laws of physics. Also docked for some crummy dubbing and sound sync - there are some pretty lame instances where the English words continue long after the actor has finished moving her lips. Still, if you are into crypto-gay S&M porn, or even if you aren't but just want some good, irresponsible fun, this movie should be right up your alley.