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Skip ahead a few hundred years to the early seventies and we meet that soon to be cursed bloodline of Hugo de Marnac (Paul Naschy), who is attending a séance where the spirit of Alaric seems to reach out and spook. Hugo and his friends decide to venture to the old family chateau to hunt for the body and head of Alaric. After some digging around the chateau a chest is discovered. This contains the head. Some possession and sacrifices occur and before you know it Alaric is back to life with a good head on his shoulders. Mabille is brought back to flesh from her horridly current state of cheap plastic skeleton. Together they rein in chaos and some good “Hearty” organ eating. From a technical stand point this movie can be wretched and drenched with terrible camera work, choppy editing and the worst offender of all, the misplacement of sound effects at time, if you can remember how on radio they have all sorts of sound effects cued? Well imagine the Sound effects person at the board going completely bat shit and hitting the buttons off cue and just at awkward times and stand out in a not so good way. A bountiful booby buffet occurs literally almost every five to ten minutes. Some one gets a shirt opened or ripped off by Alaric and the facial expressions he makes are almost like a teenage guy seeing his first breast. His eyes light up like a fat German kid in a candy store. Never before have I seen an actor speak so much with his eyes, he lurches slowly at them and his eyes just get bigger the closer he gets to his young female victim. If you want complete absurdity look for when Elvira (Emma Cohen) and Andre (Víctor Alcázar), (who appear to the only ones left alive near the films end) try to confront and defeat Alaric in his hideout but are quickly scared away by what could best be described as when you take a laser pointer and shine it at a dog and they go wild and freak out, yeah well the duo get freaked out by a big blotchy red light that appears so slowly and random it makes you feel like your watching an old school Castlevania final boss match with the randomness in which it appears and disappears. A brief introduction about the movie by a very old looking Paul Naschy and some Alternate scenes that I would say cater to any one who hates nudity as these would be unloving referred to as the non-nude alternate scenes I would say followed by audio commentary and some still shots are the only things really offered for the special features there is a trailer in there some where but that’s pretty much to be expected. Not really a whole heck of a lot to satiate any desire to learn more about this movie. While I have bashed this film a bit, I have to give kudos to this movie in the fact they promised zombies and they delivered zombies! They were incredibly freaky looking and Fairly minimal in a good way, the outfits mostly relied heavily on make-up and some kind of eye coverings that made the pupils pure white. They look almost bloated and fresh from a lake to the point where they resemble the zombies in Creepshow that came back from the ocean. Also the film introduces me to the actor that is Paul Naschy, I scooped up a little info on IMDB.com and pretty much found out that he is Spain’s version of Bela Lugosi. My opinion of this movie is not
very high but I certainly do not regret watching it because it is a
good sampling of good euro horror and for being about 35 years old
this really feels like it’s from a tomb as far as the quality which
really saves this film from sucking hard.
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