
Dust Devil
1992


“UNBELIEVABLE! Until You See It With Your Own Eyes!”
82 votes
In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.
Director
Harald ReinlWriters
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Thirty five years after being pulled limb-from-limb after killing twelve virgins, Count "Regula" (Christopher Lee) is on his way back from the dead to reap his revenge. His targets are the daughter of the woman he had originally intended to be his unlucky 13th (Karin Dor) and the son of the man who convicted him back then - "Roger" (Lex Barker). It's very much in the style of an Hammer film, with colourful scenery and cheap and cheerful visual effects. The stage bound style of the performances and the pace of the story hold it back a lot: it takes way too long to get going and the characterisa…
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**_Basically, Germany’s version of “The Pit and the Pendulum”_** In the 1700s, a count in Bavaria (Christopher Lee) is drawn-and-quartered for murdering twelve virgins in his castle. Thirty-five years later, a nobleman seeking insights on his past (Lex Barker) is invited to the infamous citadel and, on the way, meets up with a striking baroness with a curiously similar goal (Karin Dor). “The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism” (1967), aka “Blood Demon,” was called “The Snakepit and the Pendulum” in German (translated). It’s a mixture of Corman’s Poe-inspired flicks from the early 60s, like “T…
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