Maciste in Hell
A muscleman drops into a full gothic hell. Peplum crossbred with a haunted-castle picture, and it looks it.
reelscum lists 3 films directed or co-directed by Riccardo Freda. They were released between 1957 and 1962. The subgenres that appear most often are Euro-gothic (3 films) and Peplum (1 film).
They are credited to Italy (3). Most were released in the 1960s (2) and 1950s (1).
Entries include Maciste in Hell (1962), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) and I Vampiri (1957). Each links to its own page with a verdict, rating axes and where to watch.
A muscleman drops into a full gothic hell. Peplum crossbred with a haunted-castle picture, and it looks it.
Barbara Steele married to a necrophile surgeon, and Freda smuggling it past the 1962 censors on innuendo alone.
Freda walked off Italy's first sound horror; Bava finished it. The whole euro-gothic shelf starts here.