**SPOILERS** During the hectic times in Central Europe just after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo this troupe of Gypsy entertainers doing a hang man act are invited to preform at Count Dargo's Castle with a hefty three pieces of gold bullion as a reward for their effort.
Accepting the Count's invitation the entertainers are unaware that he's more interested in their bodies then their talents. In fact one of the Gypsy, who was thrown out of the ensemble for fighting, Dart is later grabbed by the Count's faithful servant Sando who had him mummified with this potion, secreted from an exotic flower, that the Count picked up in the Orient.
The Count is in the process of creating his own wax museum by freezing, with the extract of his magic flower, in place not only animals, like birds cats and dogs, but humans. The Count plans to have the entire troupe made into members of the living dead, like his wife, and stay with him in his castle, as a byproduct of his evil genius, forever!
After mummifying Dart together with the hangman of the troupe Bruno, who in fact really and mistakingly hung himself, Count Dargo becomes very interested in the late Bruno's sister Laura whom he developed the hots for. Wanting to get Laura to take a dose of his magic extract, the Oriental flowers mummifying powers, has Laura run like hell from the crazed Count with his servant Sandro in hot pursuit.
Sandro had earlier had Laura's lover, who replaced her late brother Bruno as the hanged man, Eric knocked out and put on ice in the Count's laboratory to be turned into his latest stiff. It turned out that the midget, Nick, of the group not only came to Eric's rescue but also saved Laura from being turned into a human statue by the deranged Count Drago.
Sandro chasing Nick all over the castle grounds ends up getting blasted by him, with a pistol, after he thought that he did him him. Nick was thrown from the castle wall by Sandro only to land on a haystack that both broke his fall and prevented Nick form breaking his neck. Running into an old women who it turned out was the Count's first victim Nick gets the lowdown to what the crazed Count is really up to. With the help of the local police, lead by the goofy Sgt.Paul, Nick together with Eric finally put an end to Count Dargo's reign of terror.
In the end the Count got a whiff of his own medicine, or his exotic flower's deadly extract, and became the latest as well as last member of his macabre experiment in the suspended animation of eternal life; The Castle of the Living Dead!
Accepting the Count's invitation the entertainers are unaware that he's more interested in their bodies then their talents. In fact one of the Gypsy, who was thrown out of the ensemble for fighting, Dart is later grabbed by the Count's faithful servant Sando who had him mummified with this potion, secreted from an exotic flower, that the Count picked up in the Orient.
The Count is in the process of creating his own wax museum by freezing, with the extract of his magic flower, in place not only animals, like birds cats and dogs, but humans. The Count plans to have the entire troupe made into members of the living dead, like his wife, and stay with him in his castle, as a byproduct of his evil genius, forever!
After mummifying Dart together with the hangman of the troupe Bruno, who in fact really and mistakingly hung himself, Count Dargo becomes very interested in the late Bruno's sister Laura whom he developed the hots for. Wanting to get Laura to take a dose of his magic extract, the Oriental flowers mummifying powers, has Laura run like hell from the crazed Count with his servant Sandro in hot pursuit.
Sandro had earlier had Laura's lover, who replaced her late brother Bruno as the hanged man, Eric knocked out and put on ice in the Count's laboratory to be turned into his latest stiff. It turned out that the midget, Nick, of the group not only came to Eric's rescue but also saved Laura from being turned into a human statue by the deranged Count Drago.
Sandro chasing Nick all over the castle grounds ends up getting blasted by him, with a pistol, after he thought that he did him him. Nick was thrown from the castle wall by Sandro only to land on a haystack that both broke his fall and prevented Nick form breaking his neck. Running into an old women who it turned out was the Count's first victim Nick gets the lowdown to what the crazed Count is really up to. With the help of the local police, lead by the goofy Sgt.Paul, Nick together with Eric finally put an end to Count Dargo's reign of terror.
In the end the Count got a whiff of his own medicine, or his exotic flower's deadly extract, and became the latest as well as last member of his macabre experiment in the suspended animation of eternal life; The Castle of the Living Dead!