Baron Blood

About Baron Blood

A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake.

Baron Blood (1972) is a horror film directed by Mario Bava. Its themes are witchcraft, gothic horror, supernatural, and torture.

Joseph Cotten takes the lead as Baron Otto von Kleist, Elke Sommer as Eva Arnold, Massimo Girotti as Dr. Karl Hummel, and Antonio Cantafora as Peter Kleist. It runs 98 minutes and was released in February 1972.

The screenplay is by Mario Bava and Vincent Fotre. Produced by Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and AMC+ in the United States.

The Long Hair of Death, The Green Mile, and The Blair Witch Project make useful companions to Baron Blood. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 152 votes and it carries a PG rating.