Spanish Horror
Pieces (1982)
Thursday, January 15th, 2009(aka Mil gritos tiene la noche, One Thousand Cries Has the Night)
Director: Juan Piquer
Starring: Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña, Edmund Purdom, Paul L. Smith
Grindhouse Releasing are starting to get back into the swing of things with a couple of very interesting releases which hit shelves in October; Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond (1980) and [...]
Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Monday, October 6th, 2008(aka Dr. Butcher M.D.; Dr. Butcher, Medical Deviate;La Regina dei cannibali)
Director: Marino Girolami
Producer: Ron Harvey, Terry Levene
Writer: Fabrizio De Angelis, Romano Scandariato
Starring: Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli, Sherry Buchanan, Peter O’Neal, Donald O’Brian, Dakkar
Although Zombie Holocaust is directed by Marino Girolami, better known for directing sex comedies, the film obviously bares evidence of more than [...]
Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1973)
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008(aka Los Ojos Azules De La Muneca Rota, House of Psychotic Women)
Director: Carlos Aured
Starring: Paul Naschy, Eiko Nagashima, Silvia Aguilar, Azucena Hernandez, Julia Saly, Lautaro Murua, Luis Ciges, Ricardo Palacios, Rafael Hernande
In the last few years, the DVD market has suddenly been flooded with Spanish horror films. It was only a matter of time considering [...]
The Loreley’s Grasp (1974)
Monday, February 11th, 2008(aka The Night the Screaming Stopped, When the Screaming Stops, Grasp of the Lorelei, The Lorelei’s Grasp)
Director: Amando De Ossorio
Writer: Amando De Ossorio
Starring: Tony Kendall, Helga Line, Silvia Tortosa.
Amando De Ossorio is better known for the Blind Dead series, but in The Loreley’s Grasp he directs this fairly interesting potboiler based on German mythology. The [...]
The Curse of the Crying Woman (1961)
Friday, December 14th, 2007(aka La Maldicion de la Llorona)
Director: Rafael Baledon
Screenplay: Rafael Beladon, Fernando Galiana
Starring: Rosa Arenas (as Rosita Arenas), Abel Salazar, Rita Macedo, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Enrique Lucero, Mario Sevilla, Julissa, Roy Fletcher, Arturo Corona, Armando Acosta, Victorio Blanco, Beatriz Bustamante
Amelia (Rosa Arenas) has been summoned back home by her Aunt Selma (Rita Macedo), whom she has [...]