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Medieval Horror....SOLVED !


I think the movie I'm trying to remember took place in Medieval times....it starts with Festivities going on at a king's palace, and a poverty stricken starving beggar comes in to ask if they can spare a few scraps of food . The King's Court is angry at his audacity to interrupt their Festivities, so not only do they not give him any scraps, but they punish him by throwing him in the Dungeon to starve and suffer for the rest of his life. With no human contact, no sunlight, no activity, etc, etc, he becomes a deranged maniac. Years later, a young girl is also thrown in there for punishment, and she is savagely raped and tortured by the first punished victim. I think she had his baby.....does this ring a bell with anyone?


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Sounds very much like Hammer's The Curse of the Werewolf.

From the movie's Wikipedia entry,

A beggar in 18th-century Spain is imprisoned by a cruel marqués after making inappropriate remarks at the nobleman's wedding feast. The beggar is forgotten, and survives another fifteen years. His sole human contact is with the jailer and his beautiful, mute daughter (Yvonne Romain). The aging, decrepit marqués makes advances on the jailer's daughter while she is cleaning his room. When she refuses him, the marqués has her thrown into the dungeon with the beggar. The beggar, driven mad by his long confinement, rapes her and then dies.

The girl is released the next day and sent to "entertain" the marqués. She kills the old man and flees. She is found in the forest by the kindly gentleman-scholar Don Alfredo Corledo (Clifford Evans) who lives alone with his housekeeper Teresa (Hira Talfrey). The warm and motherly Teresa soon nurses the girl back to health, but she dies after giving birth to a baby on Christmas Day, a fact that Teresa considers "unlucky", because a child born on Christmas Day would become a werewolf.

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Yes, that is it ! Thank you so much....I have ordered the DVD on Amazon, can't wait to see it again. You are an EXPERT !

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Happy to help - enjoy the movie 😊

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