After Castle of Blood's disappointing box office, Antonio Margheriti felt he could remake the film in color and have it be more successful.
Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski) is our narrator and Kinski shows up for the beginning and the ending of the movie. He's interviewed by Alan Foster (Anthony Franciosa), who challenges him as to the truth of his stories. This leads to a bed with Lord Blackwood (Enrico Osterman) about spending a night in his castle, a place where he soon meets Elisabeth (Michèle Mercier, Black Sabbath) and quickly falls into love - and bed - with her before she announces that she's no longer alive.
There's also Julia (Karin Field), William Perkins (Silvano Tranquilli) and Elisabeth's husband,Dr. Carmus (Peter Carsten). The ghosts need his blood to come back to life, but Elisabeth helps him to escape, only for him to impale himself on the gate, dying just as Poe gets there.
I adore that the tagline of this is "Based on Edgar Allan Poe's Night of the Living Dead." He did write a poem "Spirits of the Dead" and the 1932 movie The Living Dead was based on Poe's "The Black Cat" and "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" as well as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club. But no, he has nothing to do with Romero's movie.
I really like the soundtrack by Riz Ortolani but this can't compare to the black and white - and yes, Barbara Steele appearance - in the original. That said, Kinski is awesome in every second he's on screen, looking like a complete madman.
Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski) is our narrator and Kinski shows up for the beginning and the ending of the movie. He's interviewed by Alan Foster (Anthony Franciosa), who challenges him as to the truth of his stories. This leads to a bed with Lord Blackwood (Enrico Osterman) about spending a night in his castle, a place where he soon meets Elisabeth (Michèle Mercier, Black Sabbath) and quickly falls into love - and bed - with her before she announces that she's no longer alive.
There's also Julia (Karin Field), William Perkins (Silvano Tranquilli) and Elisabeth's husband,Dr. Carmus (Peter Carsten). The ghosts need his blood to come back to life, but Elisabeth helps him to escape, only for him to impale himself on the gate, dying just as Poe gets there.
I adore that the tagline of this is "Based on Edgar Allan Poe's Night of the Living Dead." He did write a poem "Spirits of the Dead" and the 1932 movie The Living Dead was based on Poe's "The Black Cat" and "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" as well as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club. But no, he has nothing to do with Romero's movie.
I really like the soundtrack by Riz Ortolani but this can't compare to the black and white - and yes, Barbara Steele appearance - in the original. That said, Kinski is awesome in every second he's on screen, looking like a complete madman.