Wych Vs. The Doomsday Clock: Week #45, 13 Hours 00 Minutes to Doomsday – The Funklechump Initiative Wych goes dumpster diving & comes back with his all time best find ever today! This week: A seat that’s cool, Ghosts that drool & Alan the fool   MOVIE TITLE: Castle of Blood (1964) (1:29:09 Run time) Alternate Title: Beware the Shirtless Gardener IMDB DESCRIPTION: A writer accepts a bet that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul’s Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for his blood in a vain attempt to stay alive beyond that one night. Barbara Steele, as one of the living dead, tries to aid his escape from the castle. Director: Antonio Margheriti (as Anthony M. Dawson) Known For: Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983) & Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) Stars:Barbara Steele – Elizabeth, Georges Rivière – Alan, Margrete Robsahm – Julia Barbara Steele: She is best known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. Her breakthrough performance was the dual role of Princess Asa Vajda and Katia Vajda in Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (1960). Roger Corman’s 1961 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Pit and the Pendulum and David Cronenberg’s Shivers. Trivia : Remade as Web of the Spider (1971) by the same director