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.
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.
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.
Because this blog does not consist of a single focus topic I chose the name Divers and Sundry where "Divers" means being of many and various kinds, and "Sundry" means consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds.
Scream Fest :-D
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
DeleteI don't know if I have ever seen a Spanish movie. I shall need to think about that.
ReplyDeleteIf 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.
DeleteIt sounds like a good scary movie. If you find a dubbed English version, please post the link for it. Thanks! :-)
ReplyDeleteI was surprised not to find one. This may be too obscure to have folks putting it on Youtube.
DeleteI think I'm going to pass on this one, thanks anyway.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why it's so hard to find, but, yeah, this one is definitely skippable ;)
DeleteI don't think I will watch this one! Valerie
ReplyDeleteSo many movies, so little time :)
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