Erna Schürer

Though he made only two horror films, veteran writer/director José Luis Merino here embraces the genre's classic elements and ravishes them to vivid extremes: When a beautiful biochemist (Erna Schurer) arrives at a foreboding castle to work for a sinister baron, she'll unlock a nightmare of dark romance, sexual violence, grisly family secrets and some of the most perverse moments in '70s gothic.

A crumbling castle on a hill now belongs to Elizabeth, thanks to her dead uncle’s will, but her new property will soon have a strange hold over her.

Hired to steal a heavily guarded $3M diamond, a master thief assembles an expert crew to pull off the heist. But deception lurks behind every move.

A saloon dancer who arrives in Sant'Anna helps colonists rebel against an outlaw planning to sell the surrounding land to a railroad company.