Baron Blood.
FINALLY getting stuck into my Arrow BAVA discs. BB is a frankly long underrated gothic classic that has thankfully had the critical reappraisal it long deserved. A young student, and ancestor of the infamous 'Baron blood' a notorious sadist and murderer heads back to his homeland to discover his roots. There he meets the gorgeous elke sommer who is renovating the castle. He decides to impress her with a bit of occultism and they end up resurrecting the Baron who is soon up to his usual tricks!
BB has some flaws admittedly, but mainly from the story and certainly not the direction. In fact it really highlights Bava's skill that he took a fairly middle of the road story and brought all the best out of it and produced the film we have today.
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