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Los ojos azules de la muñeca rota (1973)

Country of Origin: Spain
Year of Production: 1973
Running Times: 89m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Eastmancolor
Ratio:
Sound:


DIRECTION

Directed by: Carlos Aured


CREW

PRODUCTION
Registered: M-8114-1973
Production Company: Victory Films
Executive Producer: José Antonio Pérez Giner
Production Manager: Modesto Pérez Redondo

SCRIPT
Screen Play: Jacinto Molina, Carlos Aured
Story: Jacinto Molina

DIRECTION
Continuity: Jose Ricardo San Mateo

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Francisco Sánchez
Second Cameraman: Javier Perez
Camera Assistants: Francisco Bermejo, Luis Berraquero
Chief Electrician: Fernando Moreno
Lighting: Abamova (Jose Moreno)
Still Photographer: José Salvador

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Javier Morán
Assistant Editor: Amparo Fernandez-Roces
Laboratories: FotoFilm Madrid S.A.

MUSIC
Music: Juan Carlos Calderón

SOUND
Sound: Roma Studios S.A.
Sound Engineer: José María San Mateo
Sound Effects: Luis Castro, Jesús Peña

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Wardrobe: Cornejo
Wardrobe Mistress: Rosa Garcia
Make Up: Miguel Sesé
Make Up Assistant: Maruchi Sesé
Hairdresser: Francisca Guillot

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Technician: Manuel Gómez
Special Effects: Amobar

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Set Designer: Gumersindo Andrés
Props: Vazquez Brothers

OTHER CREW
Production Assistants: Antonio Rincon, José Sánchez, Ramón Escribano, Jose Angel Santos
Assistants to the Director: R. Muñoz, Zacarías Urbiola

LOCATIONS
This film was shot in: Torrelodones, Navacerrada, Talamanca del Jarama


CAST

with
Paul Naschy (real name: Jacinto Molina) (Gilles)
Diana Lorys (Claude)
Eduardo Calvo
Eva León (Nicole)
Inés Morales
Antonio Pica
Luis Ciges
Pilar Barden

and the special collaboration of
Maria Perschy in the role of "Ivette"



PLOT SUMMARY

Ex-convict Gilles, haunted by dreams of strangling women, takes a job as caretaker on an estate owned by three strange sisters. A serial killer is soon on the loose, murdering blondes and removing their blue eyes - could Gilles really be responsible?


AVAILABILITY

Canada
Theatrical Distributor: Frontier Amusements
Video Distributor: Vogue Video

UK
Video Distributor: Canon Video

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Independent International Pictures Corp (1975)
Video Distributors: Luminous Film and Video Wurks; Super Video; VidAmerica; World's Worst Videos


CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Finland
Rating: banned


ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll – UK/US title
House of Doom – US title
House of Psychotic Women - US title


REFERENCES

PERIODICALS

Cine Español vol.1 (1975) (Spain)
review

Cineinforme vol.206 (September 1974) p.59 (Spain)
review

Video Viewer vol.3 (September 1983) p.52 (UK)
review

Halls of Horror no.27 p.17 (UK)
note

Is It Uncut? no.4 p.8 (UK)
illustrated review

BOOKS

Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror p.280
credits, review

Horror Film Handbook p.169
credits, review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

VPD Catalogue p.15
note


KEYWORDS

maggots, mutilation, serial killers, throat slitting


Last Updated: 8 June, 2009

 


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