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I think so, I was especially creeped out when Helga came down the stairs (first of all, I came into it late and didn't know about that lift on the stairs) and when she reached the bottom, her head slumped forward and fell off.
shareI agree with you wholeheartedly. The scene where the Justice of the Peace gets killed was bar none, the most realistic depiction of a stabbing murder I have ever seen in my life. I couldn't believe how realistic it was. You can almost believe that the guy was actually getting stabbed to death. I've never seen anything like it. I've seen this film many times and that sequence really freaks me out- even though I know what's coming. It's so real it's like you're watching an actual murder being committed.
shareI was definitely surprised at the stabbing scene and the decapitation scene, for a movie made in 1961. I hate gore, I'm glad it was black and white!
shareThere were also the less-seen films of Hershall Gordon Lewis from the early 60's, who was before his time, with lingering close-ups of bloody intestines being drained,chopped off limbs being assorted in a bathtub.etc,etc
shareSome yrs back on a early cable show Alex Bennett was praising the work of a director who's films IMO was just disgusting, bloody & then some.
Then another time he bitched about a Kung Fung action file that was on HBO that week. Which was no where as bloody as the films mentioned above