A likely story! Petronella is immediatly smitten, and they're soon dancing and making small talk ('Quetzalcoatl. His lookalike walks in on them, explaining that he's the old guy's 'descendant', the modern-day Conde DelMorte. There's a portrait hanging in the banquet hall, and everybody comments on how evil the subject looks. well, 'Castledoom' wasn't as original as I thought. It's got expansive dungeons, a booby-trapped staircase opening onto a pit of spikes, a sealed room containing.

The only 'Torturer' we've met so far is Petronella, but I've just had a double-check of the blurb, and the real one's due to introduce himself shortly. So, they've decided on the Castle as their premier location, and Max and his boys have just discovered a skeleton. Fattie consoles himself by lusting after Petronella. Niko Kovacs (ace lensman), 'The Englishman' (screenwriter) and Francisco 'Fattie' Perez (backer) are all disgruntled with their lot.

The same cannot be said for buggie driver #2, lady killer Liam O'Hagan, a self-styled Don Juan but a rapist to the rest of us. A former Miss World contestant, she is besotted with Max who hardly notices she exists. Gela is Max's girl Friday, secretary, general factotum. He detests Petronella, but wouldn't say no. She's rumoured to have slept with everybody, ever, not because she particularly enjoys sex, but more to further demoralise her husband.īuggie driver #1 is Heimie. Max Grant, the director, is onto his fifth marriage, this one to charm-free zone Petronella who devotes her life to making his a misery. 'They were probably running from the plague' opines one cheerless soul.Ĭhapter 2 is a mini-soap opera in which we learn of the convoluted relationships between the main players. This seems to have been abandoned in a hurry. The Wonder Films team have flown out with not much idea of what they intend shooting, but you get the feeling that's about to change as they've just discovered a deserted castle with it's own satellite ghost village nearby.

This time the location is the mud flats and lagoons of the Marismas in Spain, which makes a welcome change from Transylvania.

The Torturer by Peter Saxon