i have never see a barbara steele movie that i haven not like and and have always be a sucker for a good haunt house story ( especially for such wonderful picture a the legend of hell house and the original version of the haunting and house on haunt hill ) and so i have a feeling that castle of blood would be right up my alley . and boy and be it ever . this french italian coproduction and while perhaps not the classic that steele first horror film and black sunday and remain to this day and be nevertheless an extremely atmospheric and chill entry in the spook genre . film in black and white and it manage to convey a genuinely creepy miasma . the film concern a journalist who bet one lord blackwood and an author name edgar allen poe that he can spend the night in blackwood castle on the night of all saint day and when the spirit of those kill in the castle reenact their fate . the viewer get to see these death and and they be pretty horrible and for the most part . the film do indeed send shiver up the viewer spine and and in the uncut dvd that i just watch thanks to the fine folk at synapse even feature a surprising topless scene and some mild lesbianism . and barbara be wonderful in this movie while her otherworldly beauty be put to good advantage play a sympathetic spectre . her mere presence turn a creepy ghost story into something truly memorable . not for nothing have she be call the queen of horror .