Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.
Hélène Chanel
- Fania - la strega
- (as Helene Chanel)
Pietro Ceccarelli
- Golia
- (as Puccio Ceccarelli)
John Francis Lane
- Il cocchiere
- (as Francis Lane)
Cho Cha Lung
- Un mongolo
- (uncredited)
Neil Robinson
- Un abitante del villaggio
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the previous Maciste film produced by Panda, Maciste turned up in China in order to use existing sets from another film. For this film, the writers have Maciste turn up, without explanation, in his customary boots and loincloth, in 17th-century Scotland.
- GoofsWhen Maciste begins to regain his memory and has flashbacks of an earlier adventure in China, he suddenly looks like Gordon Scott.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Shiver & Shudder Show (2002)
Featured review
Strangling lions was easy
In the 16th century, a witch is burned at Scotland, not forgetting to leave a curse behind. A hundred years later, the curse drives people mad - some kill themselves, some see ghosts in the shadows, some suffer from ridiculous overacting (don't miss the fat woman yelling The witch is back again! It's the end for all of us!"). Suddenly Maciste rides into town, he looks like he came to the set of the wrong movie. It wasn't the only case of Maciste in the wrong millennium (see Zorro Contro Maciste" by Umberto Lenzi), but if he is in Scotland, he should get a proper costume instead of the stone-age loincloth that was outdated in ancient Greece already. He tries to put an end to hysteria and terror by going down to hell and find the witch! He can strangle the lion, but there's no man alive who can conquer the devil", they say, but where there's muscles, there's always a way. Director Freda knew what the public wanted, he made enough other movies including Maciste flicks - there even is a flashback to previous adventures -, so you get the fires, the beasts, the drama and all. My only regret is I had to watch this as a full screen copy with poor colors, because in the original wide screen format, it must be quite a show.
(Edit 2017) Nine years after my review above, I got the opportunity to watch a restored version in original scope format, running 88 minutes instead of 75 minutes (among the scenes cut from the old American DVD were a fight against a snake, Maciste crossing the rain of fire, and a flashback showing him in Ancient Egypt). I was right, it's quite a show in proper quality.
(Edit 2017) Nine years after my review above, I got the opportunity to watch a restored version in original scope format, running 88 minutes instead of 75 minutes (among the scenes cut from the old American DVD were a fight against a snake, Maciste crossing the rain of fire, and a flashback showing him in Ancient Egypt). I was right, it's quite a show in proper quality.
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- unbrokenmetal
- Jul 4, 2008
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Maciste, der Rächer der Verdammten
- Filming locations
- Incir De Paolis Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy(studios, as De Paolis-I.N.C.I.R.)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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