Saturday, July 10, 2021

 'Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll' (1974) - Carlos Aured.

Alongside Leon Klimovsky's, Spain's weightlifting, shape-shifting, nightmare-making Icon Paul Naschy found a sympathetic director in delightful Euro-cult luminary Carlos Aured, a credible B-Movie impresario and their frequent fright-bearing forays yielded grisly Giallo gold in their 'eye-catching' chiller 'Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll', a gruesomely twisted, serially sadistic vintage slasher that places troubled loner Gilles (Paul Naschy) in the murderous midst of an increasingly demented plot with more diabolical twists and turns than King Solomon's beard!

Brooding itinerant drifter Gilles, a furtive man with a dark secret finds work as general handyman in a sizeable property, home to a troublesome trio of terminally troubled sisters, each one no less beautiful and needy than the other, but each harbouring a deep, psychological trauma, and inside this unhallowed house of hysterics, director Aured and charismatic star Naschy create one of their most eerily entertaining and highly regarded horror films. 

'Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll' is a wickedly warped whodunnit, Agatha Christie on steroids, a splendidly sinister, gallopingly Ghoulish Iberian Giallo that rushes pell-mell to a bravura bra-popping, heart-blocking conclusion, that once seen, cannot be readily un-screamed! And it would be entirely remiss of me if I failed to remark upon the tremendously whimsical, finger-poppin' score by maestro Juan Carlos Calderón that adds much to this audaciously oddball, eyeball-prizing, generously endowed blood-spiller. A tasty terror tapas that's, perhaps, more spicy sangria than supernatural Suspiria!










 

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