
Cannibal Holocaust(1980)
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.


“He was a homicidal maniac who LIVED TO KILL!”
A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.

Mickey Hargitay
Travis Anderson

Walter Brandi
Rick

Luisa Baratto
Edith
Ralph Zucker
Dermott, the Photographer

Rita Klein
Nancy, the Cover Girl

Alfredo Rizzo
Daniel Parks

Barbara Nelli
Suzy, the Cover Girl

Moa Tahi
Kinojo, the Cover Girl

Femi Benussi
Annie, the Cover Girl
Nando Angelini
Nik Angel
Bloody Pit of Horror is a horror film released in 1965 exploring themes of photographer, delusion, castle, murder, torture chamber, torture. Directed by Massimo Pupillo, it stars Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi, Luisa Baratto. A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.
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