A review of just the film. A region 1 DVD can be imported for about £3.50 from amazon. This is an Italian horror film from 1972, directed by Mario Bava, one of the genre's finest. Unfortunately it doesn't live up to his best work. Bava's films are often still surprisingly frightening, and usually look amazing. Baron Blood is a let down in both departments. Peter Kleist, an American, visits his Austrian uncle. Peter is the descendant of an evil nobleman, the owner of the local castle, nicknamed Baron Blood (he was a baron, his deeds were bloody; not an imaginative nickname, I grant you, but an accurate one). Peter reads a spell from an old parchment ...  Read the complete review