VIRGIN of NUREMBERG (dvd) *NEW* couple and 11 similar items

Brand new factory sealed dvd is rare, Out Of Print (OOP) and no longer being manufactured. Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Max Hunter (Georges Riviere and Rossana Podesta), encounter dangerous echoes of Max's family heritage while spending their honeymoon at his late father's castle near the Rhine. Max's wife Mary is disturbed by the museum on the premises of Classic Inquisition torture devices. Formerly used by a conservative ancestor known as the Punisher. She believes that the 300-year-old executioner is still using the intact torture chamber in the dungeon when she sees the mutilated corpses of women... which promptly disappear. The truth about the deaths turns out to be more grounded and not a figment of her imagination. The dead bodies are being carted away by Max and his dutiful scarred servant Erich (Christopher Lee), out of misguided loyalty to the real culprit--Max's father (Mirko Valentin), a former Nazi officer who lost his mind after being surgically transformed into a living skull as punishment for conspiring to assassinate Hitler. The film is notorious for its graphic violence, begining with the startling image of a dead woman with eyes punctured by the spikes of an iron maiden, and reaching its apex when the Punisher straps a cage containing a starved rat to the face of a young woman ("The old ways are still the best," he gloats). Some interesting trivia: By one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite directors with an ultra-cool jazzy score. Working as "Anthony Dawson", Antonio Marghereti shoots the film with 3 cameras rolling simultaneously at the same empty villa where Mario Bava's the 'Whip the Body' was filmed (also with Christopher Lee). His most fondly remembered film that walks a tightrope between gothic melodrama and giallo horror.