#THE SADISTIC BARON VON KLAUS

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La mano de un hombre muerto (1963)

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THE SADISTIC BARON VON KLAUS (movies, movie posters, 1962)

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The movie features a ground breaking, sexually deviant ‘dungeon scene’, infamous for it's time.

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"In this follow-up to his ground-breaking horror film The Awful Dr. Orlof, Jess Franco (Female Vampire, A Virgin Among the Living Dead) continued to lay the foundation of a career defined by fetishistic imagery and transgressive violence. A series of grisly murders in the remote village of Holfen convinces the locals that the town is still cursed by the spirit of a 17th-century baron who maintained an elaborate torture chamber in the dungeon of his estate. Undaunted by the villagers' superstitions, a detective (Georges Rollin) quickly focuses his investigation upon the creepy Max Von Klaus (Howard Vernon). Meanwhile, the youngest male descendent of the Von Klaux bloodline (Hugo Blanco) returns home to mourn the death of his mother, and must wrestle with his own connection to the cursed family history. The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus occupies a significant stage in Franco's evolution as a filmmaker. On one hand, it is a well-produced thriller in the European style (the influence of Carol Reed's The Third Man is apparent throughout). But Franco is clearly interested in stepping outside convention to innovate something of his own, as evidenced by the newly-restored torture dungeon sequence - which cult film historian Tim Lucas (Video Watchdog) called, "horror cinema's first sequence of 100-proof erotic horror." It is a sequence that is shocking even today and was, in 1962, an omen of diabolical things to come"

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"Despite a gratuitous-but-relatively-coy disrobing scene, for its first seventy-five minutes BARON VON KLAUS is a fairly light and ‘civilised’ affair as far as proto-giallo murder mysteries go, especially ones that bear the name of the infamous Franco. But before you think of slipping the film on for your grandma’s next visit, consider that, almost without warning, things suddenly take a turn for the harrowing and sexually deviant in the infamous ‘dungeon scene’, where our now revealed killer strips hapless barmaid Margaret (Gogó Rojo, here ‘Robins’) down to her stockings, whips her repeatedly with a chain, hangs her up like so much halal beef, and guts her with his ‘blade of Damascus steel’. That last act may be offscreen, but the cumulative effect of the scene is so totally out of the blue, and so unlike anything in any other horror melodrama of the period, that it almost seems like it’s strayed in from another, later film – it’s almost as shocking today as it must have been 55 years ago. "

Note- the reviewer did make an error here. The baron whips Clara with whips, then puts her wrists in shackles which he hangs her up by via their connecting chain.

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The scene in question, uncut (and NSFW)-

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"TV naked" screenshots

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The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962)

Director: Jesús Franco

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La mano de un hombre muerto (1963) - Italian poster

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Uncensored screenshots from the infamous dungeon scene

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