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This is a Spanish or Italian film from the late 60's/early 70's. I have no freaking idea what it's called, but I saw it on TV several times in the late 70's.

A guy makes a bet with some buddies that he can spend a night in that haunted castle down the road. Terrible things have happened there, and rumor has it that on this one night, once a year, all the ghosts return to this place to haunt it.

The front gate is covered with lots of iron spikes that figure prominently, and predictably, in the ending.

The guy breaks into the place, and soon finds it full of spirits who are reenacting the events of many years ago. Eventually, the guy begins interacting with the ghosts and BECOMES one of the characters in the reenactment.

As the sun is rising, he realizes that he has to get the hell out, and runs outside, only to be impaled on the iron spikes. His friends discover his impaled body seconds later. Oh, the irony! Oh, the pain! It's a depressing ending, but this is a horror film, after all.

Anyone know this flick?