The Fish with the Eyes of Gold (1974)

The Fish with the Eyes of Gold (1974). 1h 30m

“Spanish Giallo in low budget packing suspense, tense, whodunit , thrills, plot twists and lots of blood carried out by a series killer undertaking a criminal spree . A ruthless murderer is spreading terror in a beach town from Costa Brava , Girona, by carrring out a criminal spree , seemingly unconnected string of people. As mysterious killings are happening , there are various suspicious people but there is a young playboy : Wal Davis as prime suspect . Meanwhile , a stubborn police inspector : Barta Barri is investigating the bloody crimes . It is diabolical! It is daring! It is stalking, it cuts, it rips!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA suspenseful thriller with Giallo elements , grisly killings , very brief nudism , twists and turns . B-entertainment with a fairly suspenseful and frightening story in which a serial murderer on the loose undertaking a criminal spree by means of slitting, deguello ,slashing and other grisly executions. Intrigue , tension , suspense appear threatening and lurking in every room , and creepy interior and exteriors as beaches . The tale about an ominous killer begins well and grows more and more until the twisted final including the ordinary confrontation in which we figure out the guilty . Stars a peculiar actor , Waldemar Wohlfahrt nicknamed Wal Davis , he plays a blonde playboy and main suspect in a series of mysteripus murders who a ruthless killer is spreading here and there . Wal was a former German private detective and actor who in the 1970s was accused of committing the crimes of the serial killer The Vampire of the Highway, whose innocence was proven, and ended up starring in a low-budget Spanish horror film of the same name. , The Vampire of the Freeway, with the stage name of Wal Davis. The also known as Autobahnmörder had started his adventures on August 16, 1964, when his first victim appeared. In 1966, on June 13, he appeared in Germany, on the Upper Rhine, the third victim of a serial killer that the German press had dubbed The Highway Vampire. Waldemar Wohlfahrt resided in Benidorm, where he was well known among the Teutonic colony. Waldemar called himself Tex, he was a wealthy young man of 1u0026#39;95 in height, blond almost albino, with blue eyes, and led a playboy life. Waldemar started a legal campaign against the German and Spanish newspapers that had defamed him , as the German Der Spiegel and Spanish ABC . They had accused him of being a murderer, an arms dealer, a bad investor , and a white woman dealer . Heu0026#39;s detained due to possession a gun , but Wohlfahrt turned out to be a private detective, so he had one. Therefore, Tex, as he called himself in the German Levant colony in Benidorm where he lived , was released on August 3, after paying a fine for the possession of firearms of 25,000 pesetas . If that was not enough, to get rid of the staff Waldemar painted a black bat on his Mercedes sports car, and began using the nickname El Vampiro. In addition, with great swagger, he recorded an album with Waldermaru0026#39;s stage name u0026quot;El Vampirou0026quot;, with the songs u0026quot;Benidormu0026quot; on the u0026quot;Au0026quot; side and u0026quot;Tú parts mi corazónu0026quot;. His stage name was Wal Davis, and he was introduced to the world of cinema by the hand of director José Luis Madrid, starring in the 1970 film El Vampiro de la Autopista, aka The Horrible Sexy Vampire, in which he paradoxically played the hero who he was facing a vampire. From there his career soared, although we do not know if it was up or down, with a succession of titles straddling the B series and erotic cinema and even two films for Jesus Franco : Maciste contre la reine des Amazones y Les gloutones (las glotonas), as well as a Spag western Los locos del oro negro, and others as Las protegidas, El socarrón, El pez de los ojos de oro, Vacaciones sangrientas y La hiena. Wal davis is accompanied by a cast who was usual in the Seventies acting in thrillers , horror and other sub-genres as Norma Kastel , Barta Barri , Víctor Israel, Ada Tauler , Gustavo Re , María Elena Arpón , Montserrat Prous and Richard Kendall who was producer as well.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe motion picture was regularly directed by Pedro L. Ramirez , including mediocre narration and a startling visual content , though being sometimes slow-moving. Ramirez was an expert on comedy , filming vehicles for the Spanish comic named Jose Luis Ozores such as ¨ El Gafe¨, ¨El Tigre Chamberi¨, ¨Los Ladrones Somos Gente Honrada¨, ¨Recluta con Niño¨ and directed two Chorizo Western for Alfonso Balcazar such as u0026quot;Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Returnu0026quot; and u0026quot;None of the Three Were Called Trinityu0026quot; starred by Tito Garcia and Chris Huerta and a terror movie : ¨School of death¨ . Rating : 4/10 . Below average .”