In the mid-'70s, I saw a horror movie on TV; when it was made, I don’t know. I thought I remembered it being titled The Torture Chambers of Dr. Sadism, or something like that, but an IMDB search on the keywords “torture” and “sadism” turns up nothing that fits. The plot, near as I remember it (I was a kid when I saw it): In the opening scene, somewhere in Europe in the 17th or 18th Century, a local mad-doctor-wizard-serial-killer (and member of the nobility – at least, he has his own castle) is convicted of a series of horrible torture-murders and is sentenced to be “quartered.” This is not the “drawing and quartering” traditionally handed out to English traitors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_and_quartering); rather, it involves tying ropes to his wrists and ankles and attaching the ropes to four horses going in different directions, pulling his arms and legs from their sockets. Flash-forward to the mid-20th Century: A group of people are visiting the old doctor’s castle (for reasons I forget), and are kidnapped/trapped by a follower of the old man’s cult who is trying to resurrect his dismembered body by a magic ritual that involves dripping blood on it. There’s lots of horrible deaths involving old torture implements – I think one women gets trapped in an iron maiden. I think it might have starred Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing as the doctor, but I went through both of their IMDB filmographies and found no picture that seems to be what I’m looking for.
Oh, and it’s in color. And the production quality was about what you would expect for a Hammer Films or American International Pictures production of the '60s or the '70s.
Anybody know it?
(I wonder why IMBD has it listed under a German title?)