Il boia scarlatto (1965)

AKA: Bloody Pit of Horror
Il boia scarlatto film image
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CURRENT RANK#1189 VOTES10
STATUS DROPPED OUT
LAST APPEARANCE 2021AT#973
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Film details

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Year1965
CountryItaly
GenreGothic
TypeMovie
Runtime87m
CastMickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi, Ralph Zucker, Alfredo Rizzo, Nando Angelini, Albert Gordon, Gino Turini, Roberto Messina, Barbara Nelli, Moa Tahi

Review

"By having a smooth pace, the right amount of action and cheese, and a good dolloping of the old fashioned castle dungeon ambiance, there definitely ends up being very little to not like about Massimo Pupillo's turn from the black and white Terror-Creatures from the Grave to this colored and near comic-like take on de Sadean torture. The sheer zaniness of it all makes the overly elaborate death devices and unlikely situations perfectly acceptable. It's just that type of movie. With an energetic, show stealing performance and a fitting resemblance to the flamboyant, masked antiheros populating the fummeti neri boom of the time, it becomes hard to forget Mickey Hargitay's turn as the cruel but entertaining Crimson Executioner." - John Plumley, Italian Film Review

Ranking history

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HIGHEST#9152019
LOWEST#1,7512020
#848#1,333#1,818TOP 1,000201520162017201820192020202120232024202520262015 — #958 · Top 1,0002018 — #931 · Top 1,0002019 — #915 · Top 1,0002020 — #1,751 · Outside Top 1,0002021 — #973 · Top 1,0002023 — #1,547 · Outside Top 1,0002024 — #1,678 · Outside Top 1,0002025 — #1,142 · Outside Top 1,0002026 — #1,189 · Outside Top 1,000
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