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A macabre dance at Blackwood Castle in England on All Hallows' Eve
In the late 1840s, an American writer (Anthony Franciosa) meets Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski) on his visit to London and questions the authenticity of his tales. He is thus challenged to spend the night in Blackwood castle, which is reportedly haunted and no one has yet fulfilled the bet and come back alive.
Web of the Spider (1971) was called In the Spiders Tight Grip in Italian (translated) and is a remake of the directors 1964 B&W film Castle of Blood, aka Dance Macabre. It was erroneously advertised as based on Poes Night of the Living Dead, but no such story exists (although he has a poem called Spirits of the Dead). Scriptwriters Bruno Corbucci (Sergios br...