From Euro Horror, published 2024

A title like Bloody Pit of Horror conjures up all sorts of gruesome imagery, especially when the filmmakers claim it’s based on the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Will there be dismemberments? Disfigurements? Rivers of the red stuff?

Not exactly. Even by 1965 standards, this exploitation flick is fairly tame – there’s more blood in the title than on the screen – but it has just enough loony creativity to make it a cult favorite. The shock metal band Gwar named an album after it, which must confer some kind of street cred. It’s also filmed in PsychoVision, whatever that means (probably nothing, but it sounds cool).

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