Spain's brawny, stridently bellicose B-Movie maestro Paul Naschy became renowned for delivering full-blooded, brainstormingly vivid performances strongly evoking the golden age of Universal Horror. This muscular, Mediterranean master of movie macabre made effective use of his almost alchemical acting prowess in 'The Hunchback of The Morgue'. Wherein his misshapen, humpbacked, morgue-dwelling misanthrope proves to be yet another triumph for this terror-tripping titan of the silver scream! This lumbering, severely stooped servile wretch is treated as a pariah, frequently disparaged by the local villagers, and cruelly harassed by children. Paul Naschy's Goto will stoop to nothing to get his bloody revenge upon his cold-hearted tormentors, and those callous individuals who so vociferously mocked his ailing lady love Ilse (María Elena Arpón).
Director Javier and mercurial writer and star Paul Naschy have taken the grisliest ideas from E. C Comics along with their own idiosyncratic horror sensibilities to create a gallopingly gory monster movie classic! The vengeful, grief-stricken Goto aids his erstwhile mentor, the increasingly maniacal Dr. Orla (Alberto Dalbés)in his Promethean and resolutely immoral obsession to create new sentient life from some alien plasmoid of his own mad creation!
Javier Aguirre's tremendously bloody, gore-iously retrograde splatter sickie 'Hunchback of the Morgue' deserves to be exhumed from the musty catacombs of celluloid obscurity. Goto remains one grisly-groovy, girl-crazy Ghoul, and his eerie, subterranean escapades are an exquisite delight! Paul Naschy's singular genius, like Karloff before him, is to engender his gruesome characters with enormous pathos. I have a hunch a great number of rabid Naschy fans will stoop to nothing to get their furry mitts on a spankingly new Blu-ray copy of 'The Hunchback of The Morgue'.
Director Javier and mercurial writer and star Paul Naschy have taken the grisliest ideas from E. C Comics along with their own idiosyncratic horror sensibilities to create a gallopingly gory monster movie classic! The vengeful, grief-stricken Goto aids his erstwhile mentor, the increasingly maniacal Dr. Orla (Alberto Dalbés)in his Promethean and resolutely immoral obsession to create new sentient life from some alien plasmoid of his own mad creation!
Javier Aguirre's tremendously bloody, gore-iously retrograde splatter sickie 'Hunchback of the Morgue' deserves to be exhumed from the musty catacombs of celluloid obscurity. Goto remains one grisly-groovy, girl-crazy Ghoul, and his eerie, subterranean escapades are an exquisite delight! Paul Naschy's singular genius, like Karloff before him, is to engender his gruesome characters with enormous pathos. I have a hunch a great number of rabid Naschy fans will stoop to nothing to get their furry mitts on a spankingly new Blu-ray copy of 'The Hunchback of The Morgue'.