Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.
Hélène Chanel
- Fania - la strega
- (as Helene Chanel)
Pietro Ceccarelli
- Golia
- (as Puccio Ceccarelli)
John Francis Lane
- Il cocchiere
- (as Francis Lane)
Cho Cha Lung
- Un mongolo
- (uncredited)
Neil Robinson
- Un abitante del villaggio
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaIn the previous Maciste film produced by Panda, Maciste turned up in China in order to use existing sets from another film. For this film, the writers have Maciste turn up, without explanation, in his customary boots and loincloth, in 17th-century Scotland.
- GoofsWhen Maciste begins to regain his memory and has flashbacks of an earlier adventure in China, he suddenly looks like Gordon Scott.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Shiver & Shudder Show (2002)
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Very good Hercules film -- weak transfer -- but still enjoyable as hell.
It's impossible not to compare the highly entertaining THE WITCH'S CURSE aka MACISTE IN HELL to the superior HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD. First, they're both Hercules (Maciste) movies in which our hero descends into the Underworld ... and second, it's a face off between arguably the two greatest Italian pulp directors of the 1960's, Riccardo Freda (HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK, THE GHOST) and the undisputed champion, Mario Bava (BLACK Sunday, KILL BABY KILL, LISA & THE DEVIL.) By any definition, THE WITCH'S CURSE is a very entertaining fantasy film: it opens with a prologue about witches in 18th century Scotland ... and then a bare- chested Hercules rides in. No explanation of how or why he's in Scotland -- WITH NO CLOTHES ON, and about twenty centuries late. That's what we really dig about mythological fantasy films -- they Never Have to Say They're Sorry. Or explain Anything. The Something Weird DVD is sadly not letter-boxed, and pretty fuzzy -- but still this comes across as one of the top 5 Hercules movies. Once Kirk Morris (juvenile, not a great Herc -- but who really cares?) gets into the Underworld, it's non-stop flaming brimstone nonsense. Even with a great transfer, this still wouldn't hold a candle to Bava's HAUNTED WORLD -- and in the end, that's the real difference between Freda and his pupil Bava, who far surpassed his master.
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- Apr 22, 2007
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Maciste, der Rächer der Verdammten
- Filming locations
- Incir De Paolis Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy(studios, as De Paolis-I.N.C.I.R.)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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