ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

gavin6942 An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins slaughtering blonde, blue-eyed women - and leaving their eyeballs in a bowl of water.This film was co-written by Naschy and director Carlos Aured, allegedly loosely based on a true story of a doctor in the 1800s. Naschy himself felt that this was "the best film of those directed by Carlos Aured." Although many notable actors appear, one of the more interesting is Pilar Bardem. Today, she is less known for her own work than for being the mother of an even more successful actor: Javier Bardem. Diana Lorys appears and has the distinction of having been in Jess Franco's "The Awful Dr. Orlof" (1962), which is widely considered the first Spanish horror film.The style and themes fit into the giallo subgenre, with an appropriate title to match. Purists may say that gialli can only be Italian, but can a genre really be language or country specific? We even have the killer with the dark gloves and a sharp weapon -- some sort of gardening tool. We also have a theme of claustrophobia and confinement, which plays out with the house being a prison without bars.Like an good giallo, there are also a multitude of suspects. Naschy named his character Gilles as a nod to serial killer Gilles de Rais, which instantly makes him a suspect by connotation. But he is far from the only one, especially considering the killer uses gardening tools and there is, in fact, a very suspicious gardener lurking around.Sam Sherman founded Independent-International Pictures, which is today best known for distributing the Z-grade movies of Al Adamson. But Sherman also brought "Blue Eyes" to the United States, cut some offensive footage out, and retitled it "House of Psychotic Women", the title it was eventually known as on the home video market, as well. Strangely enough, Naschy and Aured apparently started to use the new title, despite having no say in its change.On the Scream Factory Blu-ray (as part of their Paul Naschy set), we get an excellent commentary from the fine folks at NaschyCast. Most interesting is their reference in the commentary to author Kier-La Janisse, who has really become a rising star in the horror world in the last five years (2012-2017). Of course, the Blu-ray has all the "offensive" footage intact, including the scene of a pig being slaughtered.

Leofwine_draca This is a fairly middling example of a giallo film, the only difference being that this time it's Spanish instead of Italian. It's best viewed these days as a curiosity only, as it offers up little in the way of originality or thrills, content merely to plod through the familiar plot and offer a few exciting bits every now and then. It's not a particularly bad film, just overly familiar.Paul Naschy stars in this one as a gardener; his character dominates every scene, even if his role is ultimately unimportant. Watching Naschy play a normal character for a change is pretty strange - you keep expecting him to turn into a werewolf and rip somebody's throat out at any minute. To be fair, Naschy is pretty wooden in this film, but he's good to have as a central, masculine presence, and a familiar face always makes these films easier to swallow.The rest of the cast are populated by ladies who are obviously picked for their appearances rather than their acting skills; seeing as the film is dubbed, these aren't really taken into account anyway. They take their clothes off, and that's all that is needed. Sadly there fails to be much atmosphere conjured up, and the only horror occurs in a few night-time sequences where a gloved killer murders off the young women. These provoke a few chills but there's nothing really exceptional here either; apart from a gritty throat-slashing.The killer in this film takes the eyes of his victims, but rather than being disturbing, the poor wobbly bits of jelly substituting for the aforementioned eyeballs provoke laughter rather than chills. The killer's motive seems contrived at best, and everything is explained away/tied up too neatly in the final five minutes. There are a couple of good action bits, but the film's main concern is with dialogue and intrigue/interaction between the four main characters. This is not to say it's bad, but it just feels a bit empty - more action, violence and plot twists would have benefited things greatly. A final verdict for this film? Okay, but not great.

Blaise_B A drifter takes a job as caretaker of an estate owned by three eccentric and beautiful sisters, all of whom are maimed either emotionally or physically by mysterious pasts. The guy, himself, has ominous flashbacks. Someone is going around murdering women to music that sounds like "I Dream of Jeannie," then cutting out their eyeballs. He/she--all you ever see of the killer is a pair of black gloves--wants their eyeballs. Is it the drifter, the doctor, the nurse, the cop, the sexpot, the invalid, or the bitter, maimed spinster? This Spanish film starring Paul Naschy is well filmed by the director of "Horror Rises From the Tomb." It knows how to build tension, use music, etc. Excellent use of old French kids' song. The ending is well worth sticking around for, unlike many Italian gialli that are stylish and thrilling, but anticlimactic. Some of the gore effects aren't so convincing and some of the plot points are laughably illogical, but these characteristics just add to the enjoyment. Watched it twice. Sexy, bloody fun.

Witchfinder General 666 Since I have been a great fan of the late Spanish Horror/Exploitation legend Paul Naschy for many years now, and the Italian Giallo is (along with Gothic Horror) my favorite Horror/Suspense sub-genre, I have long been anticipating this film which is a Spanish Giallo starring Naschy. And I was not at all disappointed when I finally saw "Los Ojos Azules De La Muñeca Rota" aka. "Blue Eyes of a Broken Doll" (1973) recently, as this weird, sleazy and brutal little film truly delivers what we Naschy fans want to see. Directed by Carlos Aured, who, in the same year 1973, made two other, more widely known films starring (and co-written by) Naschy, "El Espanto Surge De La Tumba" ("Horror Rises From The Tomb") and "El Retorno De Walpurgis" ("Curse of the Devil"/"Return of the Werewolf"), "Blue Eyes of a Broken Doll" is a film that no Naschy fan should consider missing.Naschy plays Gilles, an ex con, who gets employed as a handyman in a mansion owned by three very dissimilar sisters, Claude (Dina Lorys) who has a heavily scarred arm, the gorgeous nymphomaniac Nicole (Eva Léon), and the wheel-chair-bound Michelle (Inés Morales). Needless to say that he soon gets sexually involved with more than one of them. Around the same time, an unknown maniac is stalking the area, killing merely blonde teenage girls, and cutting out their blue eyes...Though the plot may not always be logical (for ingeniously complex plotting, watch Italian Gialli from around the same time), it is wonderfully demented and the atmosphere is creepy from start to finish. The murders are gory and genuinely sadistic, and since this is a Naschy flick it is needless to say that there is sleaze and gratuitous female nudity (especially from the yummy Eva Léon). Naschy's charisma and unique screen-presence is great as always. Dina Lorys, Eva Léon and Inés Morales are great as the three sisters. Most of the films this great Spanish Horror icon was part of may not be masterpieces, but they are all entertaining, and have a certain inimitable charm that can only be found in Naschy films. Overall, this Spanish film may not be the prime example of brilliantly convoluted Giallo-plotting, but it is creepy, atmospheric, sleazy and incredibly entertaining stuff that none of my fellow Paul Naschy fans could possibly afford to miss! 7.5/10