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Curse of the Crimson Altar

Come face to face with naked fear on the altar of evil!

5.2(85)19681h 27m3

When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.

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Released
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Language
English
  • witch
  • virgin
  • sacrifice
  • police
  • england
  • cemetery
  • niece
  • old dark house
  • witchcraft

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR14 Apr 1970
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1 Dec 1968
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1615 Aug 1969
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical1512 Dec 1969
  • NorwayNO

    • Theatrical151 Dec 1968
  • RomaniaRO

    • Theatrical151 Dec 1968
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical151 Sept 1969

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Curse of the Crimson Altar was released on 1 December 1968.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    4/4/2022

    5/10

    This might have been a bit better were it actually to feature more of Messrs Karloff and Lee on the screen, but for the most part is just consists of Mark Eden ("Manning") trying to track down his brother, whom he suspects may have been caught up in some occult goings on at a rural stately home. Certainly, there is plenty of drunken debauchery at the start (where don't they lick the Champagne from?) but once it gets …

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    Wuchak

    5/23/2022

    6/10

    _**Tigon’s version of “The Devil Rides Out”**_ An antique dealer in England (Mark Eden) travels to the village of Greymarshe to find his brother, who mysteriously went missing there. Staying at a historical lodge, he romances the young niece (Virginia Wetherell) of the owner (Christopher Lee) while an aged professor voices dire rumors of a witchy cult that may still be active (Boris Karloff). Barbara Steele is on …

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