Jason Daniel Baker Mysterious hitchhiker Gilles (Naschy) thumbs rides until he reaches a desolate village in the South of France. At the local cafe he is made to feel unwelcome and told there are no jobs around. But the next ride he thumbs turns out to be Claude (Lorys) a woman in charge of a sizable estate and she is hiring. He signs on as the new caretaker immediately though her horribly disfigured arm gives him pause.Arriving at the estate he is introduced to her two pretty sisters one of whom - Yvette is paralyzed. Michelle - an attractive nurse moves in to take care of her. Meanwhile he and Nicole the youngest sister begin an affair. The only guy around, he probably starts thinking he lucked out after he beds Claude - withered arm and all it is still a big event for a homely schlub like him.The odds may be in his favor at the beginning but he slowly comes to regret his decision to work there. Young women (Locals and tourists) meet grisly ends at the hands of a serial killer. He is a prime suspect though seemingly the entire village is filled with creeps anyone of whom could be the killer.Considerable pains were taken to sell the audience upon the setting being a French location when it was in fact shot in Spain with an almost exclusively Spanish cast. The reasons for that remain unclear.The poor way movies like this were translated and dubbed into English was distinctive - use of words and phrases that sound odd due to out of date colloquialisms or misuse of turns of phrase, high-pitched or low-pitched voices that sound like they belong to cartoon characters rather than the people on the screen, over enunciation of the dialogue which sounds completely unnatural.Then there are the actors that films like this featured. Paul Naschy - a homely, chunky dwarf with a bad comb over and Hugo Stiglitz - a chinless wonder with a huge pointy nose and a receding hairline with a scruffy beard and frizzy hair were both what passed for leading men in a shocking number of these movies. Attractive actresses in films with them of course couldn't keep their hands off these guys - at least while the cameras were running inviting speculation that the characters they were playing were legally blind, legally drunk or simply sex addicts with limited available options.The hairdos characters in this film have are those kind you see in 1970s movies and TV that are so wild and absurd they look like they have to be wigs when they are in fact real hair. If you go by the movies made back then half the people in the world had hairdos that looked they were made from the contents of a vacuum cleaner filter.

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

Michael_Elliott Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, The (1973) * 1/2 (out of 4) Spanish giallo has Paul Naschy playing an ex-con who gets out of prison and winds up in a small town looking for work. He finds work at the house of three sisters; one disfigured, one crippled and the other a slut. Soon a serial killer hits town killing blonde women with blue eyes. I saw this film years ago under the American title House of Psychotic Women and really hated it but I gave it another shot since I've become more familiar with Naschy's work. Time did very little to help this thing because it falls into the territory of various other Naschy films in the fact that it doesn't deliver. Being a giallo you expect a lot of style, gory kills and a good mystery but none of those aspects are found here. The movie is half way over before we see the first kill and it's poorly done with bad special effects. There isn't any style to speak of and in reality the movie looks extremely cheap and dull. As for the mystery, you should be able to spot the killers very early on in the picture. For the majority of the running time we have lover boy Naschy trying to get in the pants of two of the sisters as well as a nurse who shows up. We get constant dialogue scenes with some of the funniest lines I've ever heard in this type of film. The one good thing in the film is Naschy who actually delivers a nice performance. None of the violence in the film gets too gory with the exception of one scene where a live pig is slaughtered on camera. As is to be expected, there's a twist at the end but it comes off very forced, faked and safe.

HumanoidOfFlesh Starring Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy "Blue Eyes of a Broken Doll" tells the story of three sisters,a sexy brunette with horribly mutilated hand,a wheel-chair bound blonde and a nymphomaniacal redhead who hire a handsome handyman to fix up their decaying old house.Naschy soon finds himself embroiled into a series of brutal killings which leave some beautiful local girls dead and eyeless(the eyes were torn out by the killer).Our hero with criminal past attempts to solve the mystery before it's too late. "Blue Eyes of a Broken Doll" is obviously influenced by Italian gialli.The killings are more sleazy than stylish,but there is enough suspense and nudity to keep fans of Eurohorror entertained.It's a crying shame that Carlos Aured died in February 2008.