It's a great title anyway, the perfect marriage of classic cinema tropes and more modern and more gruesome sensibilities. The movie itself is mostly a terrible mess.
Naschy plays Gotho the stupid hunchback who loves a girl with tuberculosis. A mad scientist schemes to create some hideous new life form while fooling Gotho into helping him find victims to help construct and feed the monster.
I saw the version which is currently available on Tubi. It is about an hour and twenty minutes or so long and is likely missing some footage but it's a fairly pristine print. More than I can say for most of the Naschy films I've seen around lately which have all been in simply ghastly condition. But whereas the film looks good and appears to contain genuine footage of castle ruins the sound is not good. The dubbing is abominable but bad dubbing is not unamusing sometimes. One often hears the whirring of some machine, possibly a very noisy camera, I don't know. The music in the film is both cheesy and impressive. I can't imagine where they got it from. The dialogue must be heard to be believed. I thought Star Trek was full of ridiculous techno babble but it's nothing compared to what you get here. I never heard such pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo in all my life. Possibly there is a version of the film in the original Spanish with English subtitles. If so it would probably be superior to what I saw.
By the time we get near the end where over and again you hear the monster yelling from behind a closed door surely even the most tolerant of trashy film fans will have had enough. I had not heard such ululations since the 1976 King Kong remake.
There are worse ways to spend an hour and twenty minutes but if you don't see this film you'll be doing yourself a favor.
Naschy plays Gotho the stupid hunchback who loves a girl with tuberculosis. A mad scientist schemes to create some hideous new life form while fooling Gotho into helping him find victims to help construct and feed the monster.
I saw the version which is currently available on Tubi. It is about an hour and twenty minutes or so long and is likely missing some footage but it's a fairly pristine print. More than I can say for most of the Naschy films I've seen around lately which have all been in simply ghastly condition. But whereas the film looks good and appears to contain genuine footage of castle ruins the sound is not good. The dubbing is abominable but bad dubbing is not unamusing sometimes. One often hears the whirring of some machine, possibly a very noisy camera, I don't know. The music in the film is both cheesy and impressive. I can't imagine where they got it from. The dialogue must be heard to be believed. I thought Star Trek was full of ridiculous techno babble but it's nothing compared to what you get here. I never heard such pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo in all my life. Possibly there is a version of the film in the original Spanish with English subtitles. If so it would probably be superior to what I saw.
By the time we get near the end where over and again you hear the monster yelling from behind a closed door surely even the most tolerant of trashy film fans will have had enough. I had not heard such ululations since the 1976 King Kong remake.
There are worse ways to spend an hour and twenty minutes but if you don't see this film you'll be doing yourself a favor.