Sunday, June 16, 2019

The Diabolical Dr. Z

The Diabolical Dr. Z is a 1965 French Spanish horror film. This was Jesús Franco's last black and white movie. I can't find this either dubbed or with English subtitles, and now the one I watched has been taken down, but I'm still looking....

How can you resist?


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DVD Talk calls it "a decent little genre film" and says, "parts of it are executed quite brilliantly". Horrorpedia has some still shots. TCM has information.

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    1. The director complained that censorship caused him problems. I wonder what that dancer's spidery outfit would've looked like but for the threat of censorship.

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  2. I don't know if I have ever seen a Spanish movie. I shall need to think about that.

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    1. If I were going to recommend a single Spanish horror film it'd probably be The Devil's Backbone: https://divers-and-sundry.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-devils-backbone.html or [REC]: https://divers-and-sundry.blogspot.com/2012/09/rec.html or The Orphanage: https://divers-and-sundry.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-orphanage.html or Pan's Labyrinth: https://divers-and-sundry.blogspot.com/2007/09/pans-labyrinth.html None of those are gory, but all are remarkable stories.

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  3. It sounds like a good scary movie. If you find a dubbed English version, please post the link for it. Thanks! :-)

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    1. I was surprised not to find one. This may be too obscure to have folks putting it on Youtube.

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  4. I think I'm going to pass on this one, thanks anyway.

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    1. I don't understand why it's so hard to find, but, yeah, this one is definitely skippable ;)

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  5. I don't think I will watch this one! Valerie

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