Bloody Pit of Horror

(1965)

74 minutes.

Directed by Max Hunter

Cast: Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandt and Louise Barrett

Country: Italy

Film / Horror / Foreign

Also titled, “The Scarlet Executioner”. A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle to shoot some sexy covers for horror novels. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.