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Memorable, crazy movie

It is a performances centric movie

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A woman turning into an animated skeleton, a title constructed from bones, credits written in a 'dripping blood' typeface, a cauldron bubbling with dry ice, and a skull lit with garish colours: the schlocky ingredients that make up the opening credits set the tone for this trashy, somewhat psychedelic 70s euro-horror starring an aged Boris Karloff in one of his last screen roles.Karloff plays blind sculptor Franz Badulescu, who creates his masterpieces—3D representations of figures from old masters—using real skeletons as armatures, unaware that the bones come from the unfortunate victims of his wicked wife Tania (Viveca Lindfors) and her murderous lover Pablo. French journalist Claude Marchand (Jean-Pierre Aumont) is in town to interview Badulescu for a magazine; when his girlfriend Valerie stumbles upon the body of Pablo's latest victim and she is abducted, he must rush to her rescue before she too is stripped of her flesh in Tania's acid-filled cauldron.I'm going to go against popular opinion and declare Cauldron of Blood a very enjoyable slice of lurid Euro-nonsense, the cheeze factor so high, and the competence so low that I couldn't fail to have a good time: Lindfors (Aunt Bedelia from Creepshow) makes for a terrific villainess, hamming it up big time. There's a cool, jazzy, brassy score with ridiculously urgent wailing trumpets for the action scenes. Male viewers are treated to some quality eye candy in the form of tasty blonde Elga (Dyanik Zurakowska) and mute housemaid Pilar (Jacqui Speed). The frantic finale is utterly daft yet surprisingly tense, and delivers a nifty bit of gore when Lindfors has her arm plunged into her own acid bath. And for those still left wanting, there's a redundant sub-plot about Claude investing in beach property, plus a few random shots of birds of prey and a big crab for good measure.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

"Cauldron of Blood" (aka "Blind Man's Bluff") is a badly-made crime thriller that wastes poor, ailing Boris Karloff and doesn't really succeed in any other respect, either. Karloff portrays a famous sculptor who was blinded and partially crippled in a car accident years before. Sadly, there wasn't much acting involved in this role; the beloved British actor was seriously ill and it showed. As his snarling wife, Viveca Lindfors steals the show. Unbeknownst to Karloff, who thinks she's merely robbing graves, Lindfors (along with her thuggish lover) is actually murdering young women and giving their skeletons to Karloff, who uses them as armatures for his sculptures. If this doesn't sound like a very frightening or suspenseful premise, that's because it isn't. You're never shocked or scared or inclined to sit on the edge of your seat while watching "Cauldron of Blood", though it might be of some interest if you like watching weird, rude Europeans who begin every other sentence with the words "Between you and me..." As far as I'm concerned, the only intriguing elements of the film were Lindfors' creepy, leering lesbianism (and Nazi bondage nightmares), the animated title sequence, and the picturesque Spanish shooting locations. Even Karloff completists will be asking themselves why they bothered to see this one.

Legendary Boris Karloff is completely wasted in this mind-numbingly boring piece of trash.At the end of his life,seriously ill he plays the blind and crippled Charles Badulescu,a famous sculptor.He works on his final magnum opus completely unaware that the bones he has been using are the remains of the victims of his murderous wife."Cauldron of Blood" is a chore to sit through.The acting is painfully bad,the suspense is non-existent and the editing is awful.The film is terribly boring and filled with tons of uninteresting talking.The only reason to watch this utterly worthless bore is Karloff,but even his classy performance can't save it.Avoid this one like the plague-you'll thank me later.1 out of 10.

Watching the film on videotape, I got to wondering about the incredibly meandering plot and how many of the characters don't really have anything to do with each other. Then it hit me-- this flick was assembled over a period of years! The original movie centered on Karloff but his ill health left that section far too short. Over the next couple years, it looks like the producers added to the flick whenever there was cast and money available. And of course as movies got more explicit, they added more scenes to make this stew commercially viable (like the lesbian model scene).