‘Tops in total horror!’
Cauldron of Blood is a 1967 Spanish/American horror film directed by Santos Alcocer from a screenplay by José Luis Bayonas (The Death Train) and Edward Mann (Island of Terror; The Mutations; Seizure). Also known as Blind Man’s Bluff and El coleccionista de cadáveres [“A Collection of Corpses”]
The movie stars Jean-Pierre Aumont, Boris Karloff, Viveca Lindfors (The Damned; The Hand; Creepshow), Rosenda Monteros, Milo Quesada (Tragic Ceremony), Dyanik Zurakowska (Sexy Cat; The Hanging Woman), Rubén Rojo, Manuel de Blas (Assignment Terror) and Jacqui Speed.
Karloff’s role was originally intended for Claude Rains (The Invisible Man; Phantom of the Opera), however, the veteran actor died during pre-production. In an interview in Fleapits and Picture Palaces, producer Robert D. Weinbach (The Mutations) has also said he considered Basil Rathbone, Edward G. Robinson and Jimmy Cagney for the role! In the US, the film was released by Cannon on a double-bill with Crucible of Horror.
Plot:
Claude (Jean-Pierre Aumont), a photo-reporter for ‘Holiday’ magazine travels to Torremolinos in Spain to interview Franz Badulescu, a “doomed” blind sculptor who is working on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife Tania (Viveca Lindfors) and that he is the next target…
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