该电影由罗杰·科曼、弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉、蒙特·赫尔曼执导，波利斯·卡洛夫、杰克·尼科尔森、桑德拉·奈特、迪克·米勒、多萝西·诺伊曼、乔纳森·海兹等主演，于1963年上映。在80分钟的叙事中，《恐怖古堡》（又名：Lady of the Shadows、The Castle of Terror）一个年轻的拿破仑军官追踪一个神秘的女人而来到一个年迈男爵的城堡，在那里他发现这个女人是听命于一个老巫婆，其最终目的是迫使男爵自杀…… Roger directed for two days on a set left over from a previous production, and without a proper script. He hired Francis Coppola to write a script and finish the picture. After five weeks of shooting, Roger fired Francis, and hired me to finish the picture. Jack Hill was hired to write a new script with me. A lot of what Francis shot was thrown out, except for the stuff with the witch from WIZARD OF OZ. (Dorothy Newman), and I finished the picture in five days of shooting. All of the interiors are Roger’s (with the exception of Francis’s witch’s lair), and most of the exteriors are mine. To the best of my recollection, and contrary to legend, Jack Nicholson did not direct any of the film.