Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) aka The Crimson Cult (KL 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 2.0 Commentary) Vernon Sewell Christopher Lee Boris Karloff Mark Eden Barbara Steele Michael Gough Virginia Wetherell Ron Pember Rupert Davies 60s dreams in house

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Curse of the Crimson Altar

Horror Mystery

When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.

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Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) aka The Crimson Cult, directed by Vernon Sewell, Kino Lorber remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical dual mono and commentary track.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062833/

Video encoded in two-pass 11.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available.

Note : It's not every day you get Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, and Barbara Steele in a psychedelic 60s adaptation of Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch House, and with Michael Gough, Mark Eden, and Virginia Wetherell thrown in for extra British actor power, but that's exactly what this is. It sounds wonderful on paper, although it doesn't quite come together, mostly because of a somewhat muddled script. On the other hand, it has a fair bit of nudity for its time, including a sex scene, a hippie party that's straight out of Sergio Martino's fantasies, incredibly psychedelic optical caleidoscope effects, and a recurring green, white, and red light effect that I can only assume is a cunning reference to Lovecraft's greatest fear, Italians.

Robert Manning returns to his family's origins, the town of Greymarsh, looking for his missing brother. He arrives at Craxted Lodge, where he finds a wild party going on, and he's invited to stay by Eve, the owner's niece. He dreams of bizarre human sacrifice, and the next morning, he asks the owner, Morley, about his brother, but he's told he's never been there. Manning's strange dreams turn into hallucinations, and elderly scholar of the occult professor Marsh tells him that Morley's ancestor Lavinia was the head of a strange witch cult. After Manning cunningly gets Eve on his side by sleeping with her, they discover the cult might not be as extinct as they thought, and the strange dreams might actually be real.

This is a pretty nice transfer for a film from the 60s, with very good contrast, decent color, subtle grain, and fair detail. It's a little soft, and the color's not entirely natural, but it fits the period look. Dual mono track sounds fine, and the commentary track with Barbara Steele is a delight.

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General : Matroska / 6.9 GiB / 1 h 27 min / 11.4 Mb/s

Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@Main / 11.0 Mb/s / 1800 x 1080 pixels / 1.66:1 / 24.000 FPS / *Default

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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 265 kb/s / 2 channels / Original theatrical dual mono / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 128 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by actress Barbara Steele and film historian David Del Valle / English


Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Opening Sequence
00:04:11.375 : Robert Manning
00:07:39.167 : Craxted Lodge
00:21:27.292 : Professor Marsh
00:25:51.292 : The Burning
00:33:09.708 : Nightcap
00:38:23.708 : Breakfast
00:44:46.583 : Denis Vosper
01:00:05.792 : Secret Passage
01:08:22.125 : The Book
01:16:33.667 : Descendant of Lavinia
01:22:23.417 : The Fire


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Encoded from Curse of the Crimson Altar 1968 1080p BluRay Remux AVC FLAC2.0 COMM-KESH.mkv
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