| Los Ojos Azules de la Muneca Rota (Blue Eyes Of The Broken Doll) | |
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| Directed by | Carlos Aured |
| Produced by | José Antonio Pérez Giner |
| Written by | Paul Naschy Carlos Aured |
| Starring | Paul Naschy Diana Lorys Maria Perschy Eva Leon |
| Release date(s) | 1973 |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Los Ojos Azules de la Muneca Rota, (aka Blue Eyes Of The Broken Doll aka House Of Psychotic Women aka House Of Doom), is a Spanish horror film from 1973 directed by Carlos Aured and starring Paul Naschy (who also co-wrote), Diana Lorys, Maria Perschy, and Eva Leon.
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The story concerns a drifter named Gilles (Naschy) who arrives in a French village looking for work. He soon gets a lift from a woman named Claude (Lorys) who sports a prosthetic hand, hiding a gruesome deformity. She gives him a job as a handyman at a large house owned by her and her two sisters: nymphomaniac redhead Nicole (Leon) and wheelchair-using Yvette (Perschy). Soon after he sets up doing chores around the grounds, Nicole takes a strong interest in him and Claude voices her disgust, while Yvette is tended to by a doctor and nurse. As these domestic events occur, a black-gloved killer is murdering blue-eyed women and gouging out their eyes, dropping them into a jar of water. Before too long Gilles is painted as a top suspect, due to a shady past involving his abuse of a former girlfriend, and the authorities pursue him.[1]
The film was released theatrically in its native Spain in 1973.
The film was released theatrically in the United States by the Independent International Pictures in 1976.
The film contains graphic scenes of gore and nudity, and was rated R in the U.S. under its slightly edited House Of Psychotic Women title. House Of Doom was the further edited version released on television.
The film was released on a special edition DVD in 2007 by Deimos Entertainment, a subdivision of BCI Eclipse.
The tune "Frere Jacques" is occasionally played on the soundtrack, albeit slightly jazzed up with bass, drums and violin, during the murder scenes.