Paul Naschy Movies
Long known for his stylish and terrifying werewolf films, Spanish actor/director Paul Naschy takes terror to a whole new level in this dark tale of an out-of-work actor's harrowing decent into madness and murder. His glory days long behind him, forgotten film star Pablo Thevenet (Naschy) bitterly resents the lavish attention heaped upon the film industry's latest generation of youthful and photogenic up-and-comers. When audition callbacks yield deafening silence, the destitute Thevenet is forced to accept a humiliating job as a doorman and entertainer at the mysterious Pandora Club. His performances as some of history's most notorious murderers -- including Jack the Ripper and Giles de Ray, among others -- prove increasingly disturbing as fantasy slowly bleeds into reality, and it isn't long before the disillusioned has-been is extracting bloody revenge on those he feels have hindered his late-career comeback. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Naschy
Cujo's got nothing on this fearsome canine as beast fuses with metal to create the ultimate killing machine in this tale survival from genre specialist Brian Yuzna. An innocent man imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, Dante's (William Miller) future looks increasingly grim until an unexpected window of opportunity allows him the chance to flee the confines of his bleak prison cell. Upon realizing that Dante has escaped, the corrupt authorities unleash their ultimate weapon -- an unstoppable, bone-crunching hybrid of canine and machine with a taste for flesh and metal scissors for jaws. In a battle that goes beyond man-versus-machine, the stage is set for the ultimate game of survival. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2003
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Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy makes his American film debut in this sequel to Erotic Rights of Countess Dracula featuring special effects by horror veteran John Carl Buechler and directed by genre specialist Donald F. Glut. When lusty female vampires descend upon a 19th century village and begin sinking their teeth into the citizens, fearless Father Jacinto (Naschy) attempts to put an end to the terror by driving a stake through the heart of head bloodsucker Lord Ruthven. When Dracula himself appears in modern-day Los Angeles to stake his claim on this city, the dark prince is enraged to discover that Father Jacinto's actions have prevented him from sucking the blood directly from his victims. Only through the resurrection of Lord Ruthven and his deadly assistant Diana will Dracula be able to drink the blood he needs to survive, and it isn't long before a mysterious figure from the past attempts to thwart his nefarious plans. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2002
Basilio Martin Patino's drama Octavia is about a man who is coming home after a long time away. Rodrigo (Blanca Oteyza) arrives in his hometown to take part in a University symposium on espionage. He and his wife Elsa (Blanca Oteyza), meet former friends of his like his cousin Dona (Margarita Lozano). Rodrigo eventually meet Manuela (Antonia San Juan), who turns out to be Rodrigo's daughter. Manuela reveals that Rodrigo has a granddaughter, Octavia. The protagonist confronts this new information at the same time that he wrestles with his feelings about his past. Octavia was screened in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Miguel Ángel Solá, Margarita Lozano, (more)
A horrifying tragedy reaches out from the past to terrorize a group of teenage thrill-seekers exploring an abandoned school in this Spanish slasher starring legendary horror icon Paul Naschy. It was over two decades ago that a mentally unstable security guard went on a murderous killing spree in the halls of the now-abandoned school, but when a group of unsuspecting teens break into the school in hopes of getting a cheap scare, the reappearance of the psychotic security guard finds the teenage explorers running for their lives. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2000
Hyped as the first Spanish Dogme film, Era Outra Vez is set over the course of a weekend-long party. Successful writer Rosendo (Monti Castineiras) is the host of this party, thrown on the occasion of his ten-year graduation from journalism school. He has invited six university colleagues for the weekend: airheaded TV presenter Beatriz (Pilar Saavedra), her base lover Bruno (Marcos Orsi), insecure gay Nacho (Victor Mosquiera), exhibitionist Patricia (Mara Sanchez), her estranged boyfriend Lucas (Vicente de Souza), and ugly duckling Loreto (Isabel Vallejo). All sorts of melodramas ensue during the weekend, largely revolving around crushes requited and unrequited. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
- 1980
- R
Mexi-horror maestro Paul Naschy (aka Jacinto Molina) once again assays his trademark role of werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, who in the film's 16th-century prologue is executed for witchcraft alongside his vampiric partner-in-crime Countess Bathory (Silvia Aguilar). Flash forward to modern times, when grave-robbers violate Daninsky's crypt and awaken him to prowl anew. Though a decent sort of chap in human form, Waldemar is a real throat-chomper by moonlight, as exemplified by numerous gory attacks. The blood quotient is upped considerably when one of his accomplices discovers Bathory's crypt and revives her with virgin blood; together they make short work of an entire college campus and the surrounding township. Naschy ushers his time-honored Gothic monster themes into the splattery 1980's, resulting in a bizarre mix of old-school cliches and abundant gore -- definitely not boring, though Naschy fans were not entirely delighted. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Naschy
When a hideous half-man/half-beast who was executed in the 18th Century is awakened from his extended slumber, he soon embarks on a blood-drenched quest for revenge in this vintage fill-moon frightener starring Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Naschy, Julia Saly, (more)
- 1976
- R
In this horror movie, a sudden nuclear war interrupts a wild orgy in a ramshackle house. The participants are spared the fate of those outside who are all blinded. Afterwards the newly blind begin attacking the house causing the man inside to fight them off with a high-powered rifle to protect the luscious young women inside. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Spanish horror auteur Paul Naschy (aka Jacinto Molina) takes a crack at the demon-possession subgenre with this dull rip-off of The Exorcist. The story involves a young woman's unknowing participation in a Satanic ceremony which causes her to be possessed by the vile spirit of her late father. She promptly begins exhibiting the standard symptoms -- guttural curses, projectile pea-soup vomiting, and so on -- even twisting the heads of a few people 180 degrees. Naschy appears as the village priest summoned to perform the rites of exorcism, and must fend off the possessee's lewd advances before casting the unclean spirit out of her body... and into the family dog. Although certainly as silly and derivative as it sounds, this is not goofy enough to suffice as enjoyably bad cinema, and tired pacing takes all the punch out of the occasional gruesome shocks. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
Sometimes its okay to judge a book by its cover and a film by its title. This blood-soaked cheapo Spanish horror film is a good example. Starring popular creepshow star Paul Naschy, it is the grim tale of three twisted sisters, a one-handed brunette, a wheel-chair bound blonde and a nymphomaniacal redhead who bedevil a handsome but hapless handyman whom they hire to fix up their decaying old house. Doffing his shirt to flash his muscular, hairy chest at every opportunity, Naschy soon finds himself encountering a bevy of beautiful, dead, eyeless (they were torn out by the killer) women laying about. When not sleeping with the redhead, Naschy attempts to solve the mystery and save his life. Actually, the literal translation of the Spanish title Los Ojos Azules de la Muñeca Rota, "The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll" is far more intriguing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacinto Molina
Spain's leading horror star, Jacinto Molina (alias "Paul Naschy") makes his seventh appearance as the cursed werewolf Waldemar Daninsky in this creepy entry from director Carlos Aured. A prologue set during the Inquisition shows Molina as a witch-hunter who is cursed by an evil Countess (Patty Shepard) while she is burned alive. In the present day, a gypsy revives the curse after Molina shoots a werewolf, leading a pretty girl (Maritza Olivares) to seduce him and pass on the disease of lycanthropy by scarring his chest with a wolf's skull. The curse continues even after Daninsky is done in by his sweetheart (Fabiola Falcon), for she births a child in the sequel-bait conclusion. Jose Manuel Martin, Maria Silva, and Eduardo Calvo co-star. Molina returned as the werewolf in the delirious La Maldicion de la Bestia (1975). ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Naschy
In this Spanish horror/crime drama, a gangster is shot in the head during a jewel robbery. His accomplices take him to a doctor, who tells them that his brain is destroyed and he needs a transplant. They murder a rival gangster known as "The Sadist" and the doctor transplants his brain into the head of the wounded robber. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide
- 1972
This Japanese/Spanish co-produced, bizarre mish-mash of genres has hints of everything from The Beguiled to Eating Raoul. Director Jacinto Molina (using the pseudonym "Paul Naschy") plays a mercenary who double-crosses his partner/girlfriend Meiko and gets shot for his troubles. Falling unconscious, he is taken in by a wealthy doctor, Don Simon, who has two beautiful daughters, Alicia and Monica. His recuperation is slow, and in the meantime he is seduced by both daughters and apparently haunted by the ghost of their mother. Then there's a veterinarian who gets bludgeoned by an unseen stalker and eaten alive by pigs. It turns out that Naschy is being fattened up for slaughter by the family, whose members learned cannibalism from their servant Rachel's dad while living in Africa. The ghost turns out not to be a ghost at all, but Don Simon's third daughter, who went mad and would not join the family in their new tastes. She ends up shooting everyone, but not until Naschy has been bled and butchered. This is a very confusing film with some really silly moments, like the jungle drums on the soundtrack whenever there's a close-up of the black Rachel's rear end. It's certainly a change from Molina's usual self-pitying werewolf roles, but whether that's a good thing or not is left to the viewer to decide. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
This is a superior Hammer-style effort from Spanish horror star, Paul Naschy (aka Jacinto Molina), better known for his recurring werewolf character Valdemar Daninsky. Here Naschy portrays a rather beefy-looking version of the legendary vampire masquerading as Dr. Wendell Marlowe, the director of a castle-based sanitarium in which a quartet of lovely but unfortunate travelers have sought shelter for the night. Before long, the count has made late-night snacks of the three of them, sparing the virginal fourth woman for a ceremony intended to revive his long-dead daughter. All the Naschy trademarks are on hand, from the rich gothic feel to the nearly senseless story line (made worse by clumsy re-editing in the American release version); most available prints are missing much of the film's plentiful gore and kinky eroticism. This film is also known as Cemetery Girls, Cemetery Tramps, and Vampire Playgirls, among others. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Naschy
Spanish horror star Jacinto Molina, best known as Paul Naschy, stars in this bloody horror film from gore specialist Carlos Aured. Molina plays a knight who is decapitated and whose wife is cut in half, cursing his descendents when they come to the old mansion looking for his head. The knight's head is rejoined to his body, his wife (Cristina Suriani) is revived, and much mayhem follows. A maid has her head lopped off with a sickle, Suriani rips flesh from a man's back during sex, and zombies emerge from a nearby lake. Aured throws everything but the kitchen sink into this violent pastiche, but the engaging cast (including horror regulars Helga Line, Emma Cohen, and Vic Winner) and some creative touches make it worth seeing for Naschy devotees. One of the best Spanish horror films, this was the first effort of the nascent Profilmes production company, which turned out numerous genre efforts over the ensuing years. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
This Italian/Spanish horror thriller walks us through the tale of Jack the Ripper once again. A nameless woman enters her room and begins to undress, only to be stabbed. Similar scenes are repeatedly shown. Suspicion for the crimes falls on a known knife-fighter in the Soho region of London. Scotland Yard headquarters erupts into a flurry of meetings and discussions. Some investigation eventually ensues but with little result, for the killings continue. Gradually, a police aide draws suspicion on himself, and his collection of gory souvenirs is discovered in his home. The Scotland Yard inspector on the scene is nearly killed, but he is saved by the Soho knifefighter. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1971
- R
The title says it all: This time young Dr. Jekyll (Jack Taylor), the grandson of the more famous one, must contend with a werewolf (Paul Naschy) rather than grandpa's bestial alter ego Mr. Hyde. Well, that's not quite accurate. What happens here is that the werewolf seeks out a cure for his lycanthropy from Jekyll. The good doctor pumps him full of a serum that turns the wolfman into Mr. Hyde. Even worse, this Hyde is an S&M freak, seeking out beautiful women for the purposes of bondage and torture. Jeckyll wants to put an end to all this, but he is prevented from doing so by his insane lab assistant. By 1971, baying at the moon and growing an inordinate amount of facial hair was old hat to the ubiquitous Paul Naschy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Naschy, Jack Taylor, (more)
- 1970
The fifth appearance of Paul Naschy's burly werewolf character Waldemar Daninsky (following Frankenstein's Bloody Terror), this film finds Waldemar returning home from Tibet, where he was first afflicted with his beastly curse. After making cutlets of his cheating wife and her lover, he is accidentally killed, then brought back to life by a sadistic lady scientist (Perla Cristal) who likes to beat him savagely and keeps her less fortunate subjects' severed body parts strewn about the house. Waldemar eventually escapes the laboratory to slay a few local kids before coming face-to-face with his late wife, who has also been transformed into a werewolf by Cristal. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- 1970
- R
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The fourth film in the series, this movie follows the escapades of Count Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy), a classy werewolf, who is brought back to life by an over-curious doctor. Once free, he finds himself struggling to overcome the vampiric Countess Waldessa (Patty Shepard), who has taken his young female friend captive. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Naschy
