Synopsis
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel, 1967) is a German gothic horror you can watch online on iFILM. Director Harald Reinl borrowed loosely from Edgar Allan Poe: Count Regula (Christopher Lee) was drawn and quartered for killing twelve women in his dungeon — one short of the thirteen his immortality ritual required. Thirty-five years later, he is back.
The judge's son and a noblewoman — daughter of the one victim who escaped — both receive invitations to the count's castle. The road there is lined with hanged men. Lex Barker plays the young man walking into the trap, Karin Dor the baroness who doesn't yet know her own connection to Regula. Lee has relatively little screen time but fills every frame of it. For fans of late-1960s European gothic horror — cobwebs, torchlight, a proper dungeon — this one holds up. Stream The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967) online on iFILM.
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