Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Bezenby Muriel (Steele) is all excited about her husband Steven leaving their creepy Scottish Mansion for business, because that means she can get busy with the gardener David! Sadly, Steven has watched a copy of previous Steele film The Ghost and knows that Steele + Lover + Greenhouse = Infidelity. So it's spousal revenge time! I'd say that chaining them up, torturing them, then removing their hearts might be just a tad too far to be honest, but that's what Steven does. His old woman sidekick Solange is also there to help out, as every murderous cuckold can't get all the heart removing done by himself.Some time later, Steven is now married to Jenny, Muriel's twin sister (Steele, only with blonde hair this time). Now Jenny seems to have spent some time in a mental institution and Steven's had to marry her because he needs get a hold of all her and Muriel's money. Solange (who is also Steven's lover, I should have said) is a bit concerned that the whole stealing money plan isn't moving forward so fast. Also, Solange looks at least twenty years younger in this scene. What have they done to Solange? Being mentally unstable and living in a giant creepy mansion, Jenny at once starts to see things, hear things, and act like her dead sister. So it's up to you - are Steven and Solange trying to drive her mad to have her committed and gain her fortune? Have Muriel and David returned from the dead to get revenge? Is the visiting doctor in league with Jenny for some reason. You'll have to watch to find out.But to be honest you'll be better watching the version that's twenty minutes shorter, because I don't think the 1h 44m version I watched really improves things somewhat. Compared to the other 600 or so Italian Gothic horror films I've watched recently, this one drags a bit, but then again the talents of Steele and Muller and the music of Morricone save this from being a total bore-fest. There are moments of suspense too, and please note I did try to watch this while trying to get two kids into bed and while my wife was watching TV too loud in the background.

Lee Eisenberg Usually I like Barbara Steele's movies, but Mario Caiano's "Amanti d'oltretomba" ("Nightmare Castle" in English) is a little too slow-moving. Steele plays the wife of a scientist who looks like a cross between Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland and Benjamin Netanyahu. He kills her after discovering that she's having an affair, only to learn that she left her money to her sister. More shocks follow.The cinematography and setting create a very eerie feeling, and I can forgive the lousy dubbing, but the movie is just too slow-moving. This isn't a terrible movie, but I wish that it had gotten to the main story quicker than it did. Still, Barbara Steele looks great, as always.

imad_jafar This atmospheric Italian period Gothic features one of Barbara Steele's greatest performances. When a sadistic count kills his unfaithful wife and her lover, he finds out that his wife's will stated that all her fortunes be handed over to her sister after death. Having remarried her sister, the count then starts to experience paranormal encounters with his first wife (now gruesomely deformed). Clearly made to cash-in on the success of Mario Bava's "Black Sunday", Steele plays dual-roles as woman and monster in both films. Although Mario Caiano's directon is slow-moving and tedious, Ennio Morricone's effective score adds suitable tension to the film.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1965, The Faceless Monster, A mad scientist kills his wife and her lover, partly for revenge and partly for his experiments animating blood. A Gothic tale of murder and revenge from the grave.*Special Stars- Barbara Steel plays the wife.*Theme- Justice is for everyone.*Based on- 19th century ghost stories.*Trivia/location/goofs- Is online. Italian nobleman and his house.*Emotion- The horror aspects of this film are much better than the thin SF elements, with the haunting of the dead murdered lovers. This story 'feel' is very reminiscent of TV "Dark Shadows" or the E. A. Poe stories.