Baron Blood
Baron Blood is a 1972 film from Italy, directed by Mario Bava, running 98 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic.
- Year
- 1972 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Director
- Mario Bava
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (41/100)
- Also known as
- The Torture Chamber of Baron Blood · Baron Blood · Chamber of Tortures · The Blood Baron · The Thirst of Baron Blood
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic
A resurrected torturer stalks his own castle. Bava on more commercial autopilot, still gorgeous.
A more conventional Bava gothic, in which a young man visiting his ancestral Austrian castle recites an incantation that resurrects a sadistic torturer ancestor. The Baron, hideously scarred, stalks the now-touristed castle picking off victims with medieval enthusiasm.
It is less personal than Lisa and the Devil, made the same period, but Bava's command of the castle setting, fog and colour is undiminished. Joseph Cotten lends it some gravity. Handsome, atmospheric minor Bava.
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