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‘Past the black mouth of the cursed cave lurk the unfleshed…’
Cave of the Residing Lifeless is a 1964 horror movie a couple of mad scientist and his bevvy of vampires terrorising a European village. An American detective and a neighborhood witch be part of forces to defeat them.
Produced and directed by veteran Ákos Ráthonyi [as Akos von Ratony] (Take Off Your Garments, Doll; The Satan’s Daffodil) from a screenplay co-written [uncredited] with Kurt Roecken [as C.V. Rock].
The Objectiv Movie-Triglav Movie co-production stars Adrian Hoven (producer of Mark of the Satan and director of its sequel), Erika Remberg (Circus of Horrors), Carl Möhner, Wolfgang Preiss (Mill of the Stone Girls; The 1,000 Eyes of Physician Mabuse), Karin Discipline (The Demons; Legend of Horror; Internet of the Spider), Emmerich Schrenk and John Kitzmiller.
The film was launched by Richard Gordon within the US in 1966 on a double-bill (“Twice the thrills! Twice the chills!”) with the Italian movie Tomb of Torture.
Plot [contains spoilers]:
The native police in a mountain village within the Balkans are left at a loss after seven ladies are murdered. Subsequently, Interpol sends American Inspector Frank Doren (Adrian Hoven). Doren discovers {that a} woman dies each time the facility goes out within the village. After that, the corpses disappear.
The electrical energy went out once more as quickly as he arrived; even Doren’s automotive wouldn’t begin anymore. This time Maria is the sufferer, the cook dinner on the inn the place he’s staying. Regardless of his makes an attempt to disguise himself as a vacationer, your entire village group quickly is aware of that Doren was despatched by Interpol, which doesn’t make his job any simpler.
Doren continues his investigations and is suspicious of a few of the inhabitants: for instance, the innkeeper who tried to pressure himself on Maria the night time earlier than the final homicide, or the obscure village physician who after each autopsy examination regardless of clear chew wounds on the younger ladies’s throats, stereotypically insists on his coronary heart failure analysis. Even the deaf, dumb Thomas is sort of nocturnal, and an previous fortune teller babbles about alleged vampires who’re presupposed to be roaming the world. All of them share one factor: they’re afraid of an ominous grotto close to the village.
The village group can also be afraid of the mysterious Professor von Adelsberg (Wolfgang Preiss), who is alleged to be engaged on a scientific examine with regards to “blood” at his excessive fortress. At his service is the younger, fairly assistant Karin Schumann. It doesn’t take Frank Doren lengthy to search out out that the cultivated but uncanny nobleman is behind the mysterious occasions.
In the meantime, Doren takes a liking to the professor’s assistant and so they each fall in love. He quickly realises that Karin is in nice hazard, as her boss is the needed vampire who has the lifeless ladies on his conscience. With the assistance of Adelsberg’s black servant John (John Kitzmiller), they find the vampire’s coffin within the stalactite cave under the fortress. There he made the seven allegedly murdered ladies docile as undead vampires.
Earlier than the undead fiend can rise once more for a brand new bloody deed, Doren impales him with a picket stake. Adelsberg’s decomposing physique bursts into flames in a small explosion.
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“Although Hoven is a fascinating sufficient presence because the omnipresent Doren, maybe the key thriller about Der Fluch is that Von Ratony bought maintain of an iconic determine like Wolfgang Preiss but gave him so little to chew on. The Professor is a sketchy character; engaged in analysis that’s presumably meant to reverse his personal vampirism, he by no means will get the chance to elucidate it barely.” Jonathan Rigby, Euro Gothic e-book
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