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We’ve talked before about how actors sometimes take roles simply for the money. There’s no shame in that. Paul Naschy himself said that’s what he did when he made Crimson, the Color of Blood (1973.) I tell you, though, it’s hard to find anything redeeming in this movie. Much of the time, if you consider…
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The People Who Own the Dark (1976) is another non-Naschy, Naschy film. That is to say, he appears only on the side of the camera facing it. It’s a bit part, at that, but a pretty good one. The movie itself is tough to rate based on the less-than-prime print of the film I watched.…
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Although it has some characteristics of a giallo, Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1974) is more a thriller in the vein of Hammer’s mini-Hitchcocks. That is to say, it has more twists and turns than it does blood and gore, although the killer does remove the eyes from his/her victims and, you guessed, they’re…
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If I was bad-mouthing director Javier Aguirre for my dislike of Count Dracula’s Great Love, he has redeemed himself with The Hunchback of the Morgue (1973.) We’re back to bat-shit crazy Paul Naschy films and this one is another monster mashup between the hunchback, Gotho (Naschy) and a mad scientist, Dr. Orla (Alberto Dalbes) who…
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It’s hard for me to get past the title of this one: The Strange & Deadly Occurrence (1974.) First, there’s no single occurrence. Second, while events that happen in the new country home of Michael Rhodes (Robert Stack) and family are indeed strange, they’re not ultimately deadly. The title caused me to watch and wait…
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It’s been a good run. I’ve either liked each Paul Naschy film I’ve revisited this month as much as the first time I watched it, or more so. Now, though, I must face the truth. I don’t think I’m ever going to like Count Dracula’s Great Love (1973.) Because of this realization, the movie is…
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In his memoirs, Paul Naschy said about his 1973 movie, Vengeance of the Zombies: When I wrote the screenplay, I must either have been under the effects of hashish or, like Bram Stoker, I’d had one hell of a nightmare. Maybe it wasn’t hashish but cheap wine. I wonder if it was anything like the…
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Known by many different names, The Hanging Woman (1973) best represents the movie. The name under which I bought the Blu-ray from Full Moon, Orgy of the Living Dead, does not. Sure, there’s a great quote from the film: They say the dead have orgies in that bloody cemetery. However, that’s as close as we…
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Horror Rises from the Tomb (1973) was one of the first Paul Naschy films I saw. I watched it on July 2, 1973 and rated it seven stars out of ten. That means I liked it. Re-watching it now, my opinion hasn’t changed. Had I not also recently watched Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf, this…
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It’d be easy to dismiss Terror on the 40th Floor (1974) as a quickie rip-off of The Towering Inferno, which it is. However, when you look at the timeline it’s not really that easy. The former aired on television three months before the latter opened in theaters. It’s more likely there was something in the…
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