6/10
Bloody B-movie with violence , terror , horrifying atmosphere and gory scenes
1 December 2021
This is a passable entry on Dracula series that results a be a good fun but only for enthusiasts of the genre . An extreme exploitation movie with sensationalist scenes , erotic piezes , nudism , primitive as well as botcher special effects , bood and gore . Horror film about the eerie activities of a sinister contessa , Dolingen de Vries : Lady Dracula , who uses a magic ring to lure beautiful girls to her castle , where she murders them so she can bathe in their blood . It is set circa 1800s , the intelligent scholar Karl Schiller (Mark Damon) believes he's found the ring of the Nibelungen , which holds great power , and that's why he wants to go to Romania . Karl's impulsive twin brother Franz (Mark Damon himself) reminds him that Transylvania is the land of vampires , but Karl laughs off such silly ideas . Then , Franz takes the Egyptian amulet which may protect him and sets out ahead of his brother , as he goes to Castle Dracula in the Carpathian mountains and arriving at the castle first . There he meets a maid (Esmeralda Barrios) and after the gorgeous contessa Dolingen de Vries (Rosalba Neri) who invites him to diner . Later on , things go wrong as Karl arrives in the tenebrous castle . Coincidently , it's the Night of the Virgin Moon, a night that falls every fifty years and draws five virgins from the surrounding village to the castle not be heard from again . The creepy aristocrat countess subsequently bathes in the blood of the virgins to preserve her power and eternal life . Exorcism ! The one last hope for the possessed...But this time the Devil wins ! Satan is Coming! .Not even 'Exorcist' could prepare you for this! .Dark desires unleash the legions of Lucifer!

Eerie terror movie from Italy delivering emotion enough , it contains stiff acting , thrills , chills , intrigue , nudism and grisly killing s. The movie is decent -shoddy sets apart- and still mysterious and acceptable thanks to emphasis on decay and corruption , as well as bloodsucking and vampirism . Mark Damon provides a passable acting in a double role , both as Karl who thinks he may have located Wagner's Ring of Nibelungen and as his adventurous gambler brother Franz . While Rosalba Neri gives a powerful and fierce portrayal , she pulls it all together with her splendid interpretation of a bitter woman's determination to hang on the immortality by taking the virgin's blood to give her beauty and eternity . Sarah Bay or Rosalba Neri was a star of the ¨Bis Cinema¨ of the Sixties and Seventies , including B-titles as ¨The Arena¨ , ¨Devil's wedding night¨, ¨Amuck ¡¨ ,¨Slaughter Hotel¨ , ¨The seducers¨, ¨The castle of Fumanchu¨, ¨Conquest of Mycene¨ and ¨Lady Frankenstein¨ . Here Sarah Bay/Rosalba Neri as Countess Dracula takes the helm of this terrifying movie , adding a lot of nude and erotic scenes . This flick about a vampire woman is more a Sheridan Le Fanu's Elisabeth Bathory story than a Bram Stoker's Dracula film. In fact , Elizabeth Bathory tale , -the countess who used to bathe in the blood of slain virgins- has been adapted sometimes as ¨Legend of Blood castle¨ 1973 by Jorge Grau with Lucia Bose, Ewa Aulin , Espartaco Santoni and ¨Walerian Borozyk's Immoral tales¨ with Paloma Picasso as countess Barthory and Countess Dracula (1976) by Peter Sasdy with Ingrid Pitt , Nigel Green, Lesley Anne Down and this¨Devil's wedding night¨ with Rosalba Neri.

It contains a splendid and atmospheric musical score by Vasili Kojucharov . As well as Joe D'Amato or Aristide Massaccesi 's rich cinematography full of color and with varying shades of red. The motion picture was uneven but professionally directed by Luigi Batzella with some flaws and gaps , as it has some scenes that result to be of variable quality . Luigi was a polifacetic person as he worked as a secondary actor , editor , writer and eventually as a director , being an average craftsman who directed a few films with penchant for Italian sub-genres as terror , Spaghetti Western , Giallo , Sexploitation , Naziexploitation, Nunexploitation, and Maccaroni Combat , such as : Nuda per Satana (1974) , Paid in Blood , La colt era il suo Dio , Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent , Achtung! The Desert Tigers , La bestia in calore , Kaput Lager - Gli ultimi giorni delle SS, among others . Rating : Acceptable and passable terror movie that will appeal to Rosalba Neri enthusiasts.
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