The god of Gothic Grisly, Paul Naschy leaves no crumbling terror tomb undisturbed in his unrepentantly gory tribute to the more unhinged qualities of vintage Gothic horror mayhem! With one of the more spectacularly lurid introductions from his glorious oeuvre, we see the truly nightmarish plight of the nude adulterous wife of sadistic, Alaric de Marnac (Paul Naschy) being chased through the crepuscular woods by her enraged husband!!! Finally exhausted, she collapses and tearfully begs for mercy, only to receive a heinous shellacking with a menacingly wielded mace!!! The revered Spanish scion of shock begins his wantonly wicked splatter opus 'Panic Beats' in an audaciously bludgeonous fashion, happily, saving the bloodiest beating for last!
Gifted writer/director, Jacinto Molina (Paul Naschy) puts his burly physique, and sinister screen charisma to grisly good use in the gruesome guise of egregious villain, Alaric de Marnac. Simmering no less sinisterly as erstwhile architect, Paul de Marnac, the apparently dutiful husband to his beautiful, very rich, terminally ailing wife, Genevieve (Julia Saly). Paul spirits her away to his isolated ancestral home, ostensibly to be cared for by stalwart housekeeper, Mabile (Lola Gaos), and her feckless, strikingly nubile, altogether troubled niece, Julie (Frances Ondiviela). Into this increasingly uneasy domestic tableau, writer, Naschy upturns a veritable hornets nest of rampant infidelity, bloodthirsty black magic, ice-cold intrigue, darkly fulminating sexual passions and a sinister soupçon of, Henri-Georges Clouzot's insidiously influential 'Les Diaboliques'. This deliciously toxic cauldron of matrimonial deceit, macabre medieval retribution is sonically sweetened with a lush, especially groovy, David Axelrod-like score by blissful beat magicians Moncho Alpuente & Servando Carballar. Macabre movie icon Paul Naschy's majestically mean spirited 80s horror still beats you in the face with all the formidable bloody force of a medieval mace!
Gifted writer/director, Jacinto Molina (Paul Naschy) puts his burly physique, and sinister screen charisma to grisly good use in the gruesome guise of egregious villain, Alaric de Marnac. Simmering no less sinisterly as erstwhile architect, Paul de Marnac, the apparently dutiful husband to his beautiful, very rich, terminally ailing wife, Genevieve (Julia Saly). Paul spirits her away to his isolated ancestral home, ostensibly to be cared for by stalwart housekeeper, Mabile (Lola Gaos), and her feckless, strikingly nubile, altogether troubled niece, Julie (Frances Ondiviela). Into this increasingly uneasy domestic tableau, writer, Naschy upturns a veritable hornets nest of rampant infidelity, bloodthirsty black magic, ice-cold intrigue, darkly fulminating sexual passions and a sinister soupçon of, Henri-Georges Clouzot's insidiously influential 'Les Diaboliques'. This deliciously toxic cauldron of matrimonial deceit, macabre medieval retribution is sonically sweetened with a lush, especially groovy, David Axelrod-like score by blissful beat magicians Moncho Alpuente & Servando Carballar. Macabre movie icon Paul Naschy's majestically mean spirited 80s horror still beats you in the face with all the formidable bloody force of a medieval mace!