When his brother dísappears Robert Manning: Mark Eden, pays a visit to the far country house where his brother stayed . While his host : Christopher Lee is outwardly welcoming, his niece is very agreeable with him . But Manning feels a sinister threat across the weird house due to a creepy legend of Lavinia Morley , Black Witch of Greymarsh, she is the high priestess of Evil, a monstruos fiend with an overpowering lust for blood . Terror fills the night as she stalks her prey !. The World's Masters of Terror in a New Blood-Curdler ! What obscene prayer or human sacrifice can satisfy the Devil-God ?
The Crimson Altar or Curse of the Crimson Altar is a creepy and mysterious film in which a guest at a luxurious house comes face to face with naked fear on the altar of evil . Stars three greatest terror actors : Christopher Lee , Barbara Steele , and , of course , Boris Karloff , the Master of Evil in his last and most shocking role, though he was 80 and confined to a wheelchair . Despite ads claiming this as his last film, he made four more in Mexico. Adding other prestigious actors as Rupert Davies and Michael Gough who also starred a lot of terror movies .Highlights of the movie include the scantily clad Barbara Steele in sado-masochistic sequences and a psychodelic party with body painters and strippers , in addition, the eerie and supernatural final.
The motion picture was regularly directed by Vernon Sewell, packing some flaws and gaps . He was one of the mainstays in the B niche of the British film industry and in his almost 40 years shooting made all kinds of genres as Noir , action , terror , sexploitation , spy thrillers . Filming a number of movies such as : Stricly for the Birds , Urge to Kill, Master of Choice , The Man in the Back Seat, Battle of the V-1 , Wind of Change , Rogue's Yarn, Dangerous Voyage , Soho Incident , Johnny You're Wanted , and being his last one Burke and Hare. Adding his ordinary TV works as The Human Jungle , Kraft Mystery Theater , Sailor of Fortune , Edgar Wallace TV series and The Avengers .
The Crimson Altar or Curse of the Crimson Altar is a creepy and mysterious film in which a guest at a luxurious house comes face to face with naked fear on the altar of evil . Stars three greatest terror actors : Christopher Lee , Barbara Steele , and , of course , Boris Karloff , the Master of Evil in his last and most shocking role, though he was 80 and confined to a wheelchair . Despite ads claiming this as his last film, he made four more in Mexico. Adding other prestigious actors as Rupert Davies and Michael Gough who also starred a lot of terror movies .Highlights of the movie include the scantily clad Barbara Steele in sado-masochistic sequences and a psychodelic party with body painters and strippers , in addition, the eerie and supernatural final.
The motion picture was regularly directed by Vernon Sewell, packing some flaws and gaps . He was one of the mainstays in the B niche of the British film industry and in his almost 40 years shooting made all kinds of genres as Noir , action , terror , sexploitation , spy thrillers . Filming a number of movies such as : Stricly for the Birds , Urge to Kill, Master of Choice , The Man in the Back Seat, Battle of the V-1 , Wind of Change , Rogue's Yarn, Dangerous Voyage , Soho Incident , Johnny You're Wanted , and being his last one Burke and Hare. Adding his ordinary TV works as The Human Jungle , Kraft Mystery Theater , Sailor of Fortune , Edgar Wallace TV series and The Avengers .