Tomb Of Torture (1963)

Starring Annie Alberti, Adriano Micantoni, Marco Mariani, Flora Carosello, Antonio Boccaci
Directed by Antonio Boccaci
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)

After two young girls are murdered in a legendary castle, a reporter travels to the area to investigate and meets a young woman who exactly resembles a countess killed in the castle years ago. 

This Italian horror film is presented in a sepia tone throughout, which makes it stand out among other efforts in the genre and gives it a vintage feel which I enjoyed.  However, the majority of the film is very darkly lit, which wasn't to my taste, and made it difficult to see most of the environs of the castle.  I did like the cast, thinking Alberti was perfect in her role, and enjoyed Mariani as the reporter who after a humorous debut, very quickly becomes her lover.  Carosello was fun to watch as the current countess Elizabeth, who shifts between a kindly persona and a cruel crazed one throughout the picture.  I wonder if the dubbed print I saw was cut at all, because there are a number of plot points in the film that seem never explained or resolved. I did have a strong objection to the young girls' fate early in the film, but fortunately the film cuts away, rather than explicitly showing them being tortured.