Directed by:
Michael CarrerasScreenplay:
Jimmy SangsterCinematography:
Wilkie CooperComposer:
Stanley BlackCast:
Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse, Arnold Diamond, Norman Bird, Jerold Wells, André Maranne, George Pastell, Justine LordPlots(1)
Kerwin Matthews, playing a dissolute drifter down on his luck, is stranded in a cheap bar in Spain where he falls for Annette, the pretty daughter of the proprietor, played by Nadia Gray. Nadia Gray gradually shifts the young man's attentions to herself, rather than her daughter, and together Matthews and Gray concoct a plot to help Gray's estranged husband, now a homicidal maniac confined in an institution after a grisly series of killings dubbed "The Acetylene Murders" by the press, out of the mental institution so he can escape from the country. (official distributor synopsis)
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The ending is somewhat overly complicated, and as if the creators were trying to complicate everything at the last minute, unnecessarily dragging it out. Still, I feel like this is truly one of the first examples of slashers. It's not like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it has its own style and poetry, which is sometimes truly crazy. I liked this. Even back then, the creators tried to go a little further toward the extremes. It's not that extreme, but sometimes you have to proceed with smaller steps so the audience doesn't go crazy.
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