The film, set in Italy, was directed by Domenico Massimo Pupillo and stars Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi, Luisa Baratto and Rita Klein.

A group including writer Rick (Walter Brandi); his publisher, Daniel Parks (Alfredo Rizzo); his secretary, Edith (Luisa Baratto); their photographer, Dermott (Ralph Zucker); and five young models enter a seemingly deserted castle to take photos for a horror photonovel.

This act angers Anderson, who dons a costume and assumes the identity of the Crimson Executioner, who was executed centuries earlier in an iron maiden for the crime of having a private torture chamber.

[1] Hargitay stated that he had little experience in acting, noting that he "wasn't any more of an accomplished actor than a taxi driver", but still felt he provided a good performance in the film.

'I...the Marquis de Sade')[4] The complete English-language "friendly" version of the film was released as a special edition DVD by Something Weird Video (distributed by Image Entertainment), and contained the shorter print with deleted scenes included as a supplement.

[4] Italian critic Roberto Guidotti marked the film as "a comic-strip movie, with a story told through a series of scenes, pictures and pacing that are more akin to comics than cinema.