Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Script of the Dead 2024

- The Bell Affair 2023

- Easter Bloody Easter 2024

- Velma 2022

- Everwinter Night 2023

- Main Character Energy 2023

- Stupid Games 2024

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- Pareidolia 2023

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Der Würger von Schloss Blackmoor

The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

West Germany 1963
produced by
Artur Brauner, Eberhard Meichsner (executive) for CCC-Filmkunst
directed by Harald Reinl
starring Karin Dor, Harry Riebauer, Rudolf Fernau, Hans Nielsen, Dieter Eppler, Hans Reiser, Richard Häussler, Walter Giller, Ingmar Zeisberg, Peter Nestler, Gerhard Hartig, Albert Bessler, Werner Schott, Carl de Vogt, Stephan Schwartz
screenplay by Ladislas Fodor, Gustav Kampendonk, based on the novel by Bryan Edgar Wallace, music by Oskar Sala, cinematography by Ernst W. Kalinke

Bryan Edgar Wallace-series

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

Available on DVD!

To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned)

Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!


Lucius Clark (Rudolf Fernau) is about to be knighted by the queen for his services in the colonies, which he celebrates at his home, Blackmoor Castle, but right after all the guests have gone, he receives an unwanted prisoner: A hooded man who demands the diamonds he stole in the colonies and threatens to kill him if he doesn't hand them over - but then noises from outside cause the hooded man, who will soon be dubbed "the strangler" to flee.

Of course, the diamonds the strangler has talked about are real (and possibly stolen), and Clark keeps them at a top secret space behind (!) an incinerator. And due to a few failed investments with money taken out of the trust fund of his niece Claridge (Karin Dor), he now has to sell some of his diamonds to a fence, Tavish (Hans Nielsen), who also runs a seedy nightclub. However, whoever Clark sends to the nighclub ends up dead, and invariably the diamonds are gone. Only Claridge gets through, not knowing what she's carrying, but when her box is opened, it contains nothing but sand.

But who could be behind all these murders. The actual Lord Blackmoor (Walter Giller), an impoverished aristocrat who saw himself forced to rent out most of his mansion to Lucius Clark? Clark's butler (Dieter Eppler) who's actually a diamond cutter and who seems to be addicted to diamonds? Lawyer Tromby (Richard Häussler), the executor of Claridge's trust fund who has a secret agenda of his own? Judy (Ingmar Zeisberg), a barwoman who is also Tromby's accomplice and who likes to pose as a noblewoman?

Scotland Yard inspector Mitchell (Harry Riebauer) eventually finds out that whoever it is is the son of Lucius Clark with another man's wife, and this son is actually Judy's husband. Apparently the strangler doesn't know Clark is his real father, otherwise he would probably not threaten to kill him. But Clark dies anyways from heart failure, as all of this excitement has proven too much for him.

It all culminates in a chase through the secret catacombs under the mansion, and at the end the strangler is shot, unmasked ... and it proves to be a journalist colleague (Hans Reiser) of Claridge, somebody nobody would have suspected.

In the end, inspector Mitchell gets the girl - Claridge that is.

 

The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle is one of the many attempts of producer Artur Brauner to cash in on the success of Rialto's Edgar Wallace-series, this time by adapting a novel by Wallace's son Bryan Edgar Wallace. But while the younger Wallace was a writer whose books differed vastly from those of his father, it was seen to it that the films fitted the Edgar Wallace-style to the t - which might be one of the reasons for hiring Harald Reinl as director, Karin Dor in the female lead.

The film is actually in the tradition of the German Edgar Wallace movies in every way: England is a land full of mansions, populated by mainly eccentrics who somehow follow the German clichées of Englishmen, and these mansions are riddled with secret passageways and hidden catacombs like Swiss cheese. Now put a thriller plot on top of this that features a hooded killer, gruesome murders, seedy bars and the obligator innocent heiress (Karin Dor), and mix it up in an overconvoluted plot that ultimately pulls a murder out of the head rather than having him revealed after careful deduction, and you come up with The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle. In other words, if you're into the German Edgar Wallace series, you'll very probably like this as well, since it's almost the same, but if you're expecting a masterpiece ... well, then just look somewhere else.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty?
(Must be over 18 to go there!)

x-rated  find The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!