The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (Jess Franco)

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The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus Blu-ray



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The Redemption label has confirmed that it will release on Blu-ray cult director Jess Franco's The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962), starring Howard Vernon, Hugo Blanco, Gogó Rojo, Paula Martel, and Ana Castor. The release is scheduled to arrive on the U.S. market in June.

In the village of Holfen, a number of young women are found stabbed to death by what is determined to be an ancient dagger with a curved and rusty blade. The superstitious locals believe the murders to be the fulfillment of a curse placed on them in the 17th century by Baron Von Klaus, a sadistic libertine who killed many women before dying in the swamps surrounding his castle. The Baron's spirit is said to live on in his male descendants, but the reigning Baron, Max (Howard Vernon), has an alibi, and his nephew Ludwig (Hugo Blanco) doesn't arrive in town until the day after the latest murder, accompanied by his fiancee. Arriving in time to speak with his ailing mother before her death, Ludwig is entrusted with a key to his ancestor's torture dungeon and begged to bring an end to the family curse by visiting it, destroying it, and leaving the castle, never to return again. He agrees, but will he have the willpower to resist the lure of his horrific heritage?

The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus is a stylish, black & white, Gothic whodunit from horror maverick Jess Franco, made between his better known The Awful Dr. Orlof and Dr. Orloff's Monster. Based, so the credits tell us, on the non-existant book "the Hand of a Dead Man (written by Franco's alter ego, David Khune), The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus is a revelation for the Euro horror buff: it contains moments surprisingly prophetic of the Italian giallo thrillers that would soon follow and a still-shocking dungeon sequence that takes the glimpses of nudity in Franco's earlier work into the next dimension!

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