1972 · horror · gothic · supernatural
Baron Blood
Directed by Mario Bava1h 38m1972
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
Our read: Baron Blood (1972) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · gothic · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured horror / gothic, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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