Hercules in the Haunted World

Original title: Ercole al centro della Terra

1961
G
1h 24m

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Sword & Sorcery Adventure Fantasy Horror

Hercules must journey into Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness.Hercules must journey into Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness.Hercules must journey into Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness.

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Reg Park

Ercole

Christopher Lee

Lico

Leonora Ruffo

La principessa Deianira

George Ardisson

Teseo
(as Giorgio Ardisson)

Marisa Belli

Aretusa

Ida Galli

Myosotide

Franco Giacobini

Telemaco

Mino Doro

Keros

Rosalba Neri

Egle

Ely Drago

Jocasta
(as Ely Dracò)

Gaia Germani

Medea

Raf Baldassarre

Un mercenario

Elisabetta Pavan

Tamar

Aldo Pedinotti

Sunis
(as Aldo Padinotti)

Claudio Marzulli

Grazia Collodi

Electra
(uncredited)

Monica Neri

Helena
(uncredited)

Osiride Pevarello

Un'assassino
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Arnold Schwarzenegger was inspired to become a bodybuilder because of Reg Park's performance and physique in this film.

Goofs
Re the above, for the record Pluto's daughter is not called Persephone in the original version, but 'Meiazotide'. Theseus calls her "the child of Pluto and the woman he took from her mother." (spelling and quotations from Talida Barbé's subtitles on the 2019 Kino DVD of the Italian version with English subtitles).

Quotes
[first lines]
Medea: This is Italia, a kingdom city of ancient Greece in an age of myth and legend. It is a time when Olympian gods and demigods rule over the elements of nature and control the destinies of men.

Connections
Edited into Hercules the Avenger (1965)

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Mario Bava's atmospheric peplum gets first-rate treatment on a new Fantoma DVD.

Sword-and-sandal afficionados will be happy to hear that this lush Mario Bava-helmed Hercules movie is getting a widescreen treatment on DVD. It's one of the more atmospheric Italian schlock epics, full of the imaginative and colorful set pieces distinctive to the renowned Italian filmmaker, Mario Bava. Reg Park was among the most impressive bodybuilders to ever play the mythical hero and he is given generous opportunity to strut his stuff. Hercules literally goes to Hell to defeat satanic villain Christopher Lee in this engaging muscleman movie, a definite kitsch classic of it's kind, now being made available in it's once-glorious Super Technirama format on videodisc.