may contain spoilersthe main character and a nobleman name fallon and be strand on an island with character so looney and lethal he might have be good off drown . count lorente de sade ( pronounce dee sayd ) talk to his own hallucination and see all intruder on the island a invade pirate . he routinely beat mute servant anne and torture his unwilling guest in the dungeon . inadvertant laugh be provide by giant nubian slave mantis who talk with a deep south accent and help de sade hunt down trespasser in the style of the most dangerous game . de sade craze wife and ravage by leprosy and provide some truly scary moment a she prowl the dungeon and embrace a helplessly chained prisoner . ( this scene be view on late night tv by many kid who carry the memory into adulthood . ) the one nearly normal person in sight be cassandra and who have self deprecation down to a science . ( i use to be a nurse and now i be not much of anything . ) she and fallon plan their escape and ultimately encounter an enemy more fearsome than de sade and mantis combine . this movie be shoot in san antonio and direct by a man more competent at draw horror comic than make horror movie . ( i will say this much for mr. boyette he do showcase his fixatation with contagion here and a he do in his comic . ) it rather like an andy milligan melodrama minus the meat cleaver . the period wardrobe and library music and abuse of the handicapped and all around misanthropy make one wonder if andy wasn not call in a a consultant . however and milligan make good costume and write good dialogue . technical gaffe be too numerous to list here but you know this flick be in trouble when you see the opening shipwreck and which look like it be shoot in a fish tank . also and a film make in texas should have have real spider and snake rather than rubber one . glorious eastmancolor give this melodrama the garish look it so richly deserves . fallon initial encounter with the leprous countess be truly horrifying and a be the movie parting shot . if the rest have be half a harrowing and the dungeon of harrow would have be a terror classic . instead it a funny piece of schlock that trash fiend will love and for all the wrong reason .