Teresa loves her Hammer horror movies. We tried one called The Black Glove, about a ‘jazz trumpeter’, wrongfully accused of murder. But she didn’t like the look of it. So she picked this Bavarian adaptation of an Edgar Allen Poe story instead.
The soundtrack has the feel of being dubbed very poorly into English, with very questionable choices of music. Only some of the Germanic locations (oh, and the fulsome boobies, I guess!) save the film from being utterly dire. It’s a pretty bizarre but lame film. Very stilted, but very Hammer-esque.
Christopher Lee is hardly in it, just at the beginning and end. Pity! Perhaps his fee was so big they could only afford him briefly? The Poe pit ‘n’ pendulum stuff also appears, but to no real effect. Pretty poor, overall, frankly.
But it has a vibe closer to what Teresa wanted, so she’s happy. I was less enamoured of it.