Das Blutgericht der gequälten Frauen (1973)

Das Blutgericht der gequälten Frauen: Directed by Jesús Franco. With Alberto Dalbés, Dennis Price, Howard Vernon, Beatriz Savón. Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho are killed just as they bring their creation to life. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate and create the perfect master race.

“Most people watch Franco it seems specifically because it is junk, or so they think. The cheapness and (for the era) exotic nudity must give some sort of trailer park thrill.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut these films seem important to me. The reason is that todayu0026#39;s most exiting cinema comes from the Spanish tradition of layered realisms. While the main source is Latin literature, I fancy that it can be traced back to Franco and buddies as well.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAbout half of these that I encounter make me yell u0026quot;This! This must be the ultimate Franco!u0026quot; I had that experience when gliding through this.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eYes, of course it is cheap, with bad acting and so on. But nearly _every_ movie is for me. Its just a matter of degree and earnestness. Overlook that, dear viewer.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story alone should be enough to attract you. I wonu0026#39;t recount it here, but it is complex and ambiguous, borrowing from several genres and reinventing them capriciously. One character is the evil geniusu0026#39;s erotic soothsayer. She is blind but sees, a vampire but humanly erotic, our surrogate on screen.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThat evil genius wraps us up in capturing Frankensteinu0026#39;s monster to mate for a purpose I didnu0026#39;t understand. This eventually involves Frankensteinu0026#39;s beautiful scientist daughter who temporarily reanimates her now carrion dad and ends up getting nudely whipped… well it hardly matters.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe real thing is in how he creates a gauzy, abstract world that floats above the normal world of movies. It is a movie like other movies, but not. It engages us in a conspiracy to weave a new world. Who cares about what that world contains, it is how it is woven that matters.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTedu0026#39;s Evaluation — 3 of 3: Worth watching.”