Before Arnold Schwarzenegger, there was Mickey Hargitay: a European-born Mr. Universe-winning body builder who moved to the USA, made the jump into movies, and gave us an unforgettable genocidal villain in this bloody and stylish low-budget masterpiece. Of course, Hargitay didn't become as big a global megastar, but the similarities are so uncanny that Schwarzenegger played Hargitay in one of his very earliest roles. Get to see the man himself in super-stylized Italian gorefest Bloody Pit of Horror aka Il boia scarlatto, as Hargitay goes on a sharp-edged killing spree as the Scarlet Executioner. – Richard Whittaker