In their latest bout, Belial has turned Andre’s son into one of the rattiest looking werewolf you will ever see before Andre manages to stir himself from his deathbed long enough to make Belial disappear in a puff of smoke (at a distance of course and never actually in the same shot) during a satanic ritual. Belial and his coven (or co-ven as one of the cast members insists on pronouncing it) of witches has been using his black magic powers to entrance various family members while the ailing Andre finds it a struggle to even get out of bed. Brothers Belial (Chaney), who sports devil horns beneath his Satanist’s cowl, and Andre, both warlocks, have been feuding for some time over the family fortune. Warner-Crozetti’s novel The Widderburn Horror) built on a cramped soundstage where the Desard (pronounced De Sade) family are at loggerheads. Owing debts to both the previous year’s Witchcraft (which had also starred Chaney) and The City of the Dead (1960), the drab story takes place in the small town of Widderburn (the film was based on R. Under any name, it’s a dull effort that will test the resolve of even the most hardened fans of its two leads, Lon Chaney Jr and John Carradine who, for reasons not at all clear, never actually share a scene together despite playing brothers. Even the actual title is unclear – it was shot in 1965 as Night of the Beast, a version copyrighted 1966 bears the best-known title of House of the Black Death though it may not actually have been released theatrically until 1971 when it surfaced as Blood of the Man Devil. Sorting out the whys and whens of House of the Black Death is a lot more interesting than actually sitting through it.
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