CAVE OF THE LIVING DEAD 1964 horror movie critiques free on-line MOVIES & MANIA

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‘Past the black mouth of the cursed cave lurk the unfleshed…’
Cave of the Dwelling Lifeless is a 1964 horror movie a couple of mad scientist and his bevvy of vampires terrorising a European village. An American detective and a neighborhood witch be a part of forces to defeat them.

Produced and directed by veteran Ákos Ráthonyi [as Akos von Ratony] (Take Off Your Garments, Doll; The Satan’s Daffodil) from a screenplay co-written [uncredited] with Kurt Roecken [as C.V. Rock].

The Objectiv Movie-Triglav Movie co-production stars Adrian Hoven (producer of Mark of the Satan and director of its sequel), Erika Remberg (Circus of Horrors), Carl Möhner, Wolfgang Preiss (Mill of the Stone Ladies; The 1,000 Eyes of Physician Mabuse), Karin Area (The Demons; Legend of Horror; Internet of the Spider), Emmerich Schrenk and John Kitzmiller.

The film was launched by Richard Gordon within the US in 1966 on a double-bill (“Twice the thrills! Twice the chills!”) with the Italian movie Tomb of Torture.

Plot [contains spoilers]:
The native police in a mountain village within the Balkans are left at a loss after seven girls are murdered. Due to this fact, Interpol sends American Inspector Frank Doren (Adrian Hoven). Doren discovers {that a} lady dies each time the facility goes out within the village. After that, the corpses disappear.

The electrical energy went out once more as quickly as he arrived; even Doren’s automotive wouldn’t begin anymore. This time Maria is the sufferer, the prepare dinner on the inn the place he’s staying. Regardless of his makes an attempt to disguise himself as a vacationer, your entire village neighborhood quickly is aware of that Doren was despatched by Interpol, which doesn’t make his job any simpler.

Doren continues his investigations and is suspicious of among the inhabitants: for instance, the innkeeper who tried to pressure himself on Maria the evening earlier than the final homicide, or the obscure village physician who after each autopsy examination regardless of clear chunk wounds on the younger girls’s throats, stereotypically insists on his coronary heart failure prognosis. Even the deaf, dumb Thomas is sort of nocturnal, and an outdated fortune teller babbles about alleged vampires who’re speculated to be roaming the world. All of them share one factor: they’re afraid of an ominous grotto close to the village.

The village neighborhood can be afraid of the mysterious Professor von Adelsberg (Wolfgang Preiss), who is alleged to be engaged on a scientific research as regards to “blood” at his excessive fortress. At his service is the younger, fairly assistant Karin Schumann. It doesn’t take Frank Doren lengthy to seek out out that the cultivated but uncanny nobleman is behind the mysterious occasions.

In the meantime, Doren takes a liking to the professor’s assistant and so they each fall in love. He quickly realises that Karin is in nice hazard, as her boss is the needed vampire who has the useless girls on his conscience. With the assistance of Adelsberg’s black servant John (John Kitzmiller), they find the vampire’s coffin within the stalactite cave beneath the fortress. There he made the seven allegedly murdered girls docile as undead vampires.

Earlier than the undead fiend can rise once more for a brand new bloody deed, Doren impales him with a picket stake. Adelsberg’s decomposing physique bursts into flames in a small explosion.

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“Although Hoven is a fascinating sufficient presence because the omnipresent Doren, maybe the most important thriller about Der Fluch is that Von Ratony received maintain of an iconic determine like Wolfgang Preiss but gave him so little to chew on. The Professor is a sketchy character; engaged in analysis that’s presumably supposed to reverse his personal vampirism, he by no means will get the chance to elucidate it barely.” Jonathan Rigby, Euro Gothic guide

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