The Mansion of the Living Dead

Year: 1985

Duration: 01:29:03

Directed by: Jesús Franco

Actors: Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans, Mabel Escaño

Language: Spanish (English subs)

Country: Spain

Also known as: Die Villa der lebenden Toten, Mansion of the Living Dead

Description: Four friends stayed at the resort. At first, they gave themselves rest on a local beach and the joys of lesbian love. Then begin oddities: in one of the rooms a hotel employee keeps chained to a bed naked lady, in a basement suit satanic covens living dead. Our lesbians are beginning to fall into one of these activities – and not as an honored guest. The dead and then rape them, cut with knives. From director Jess Franco, who also filmed a lot of other movies about living deads like Princess of Eroticism and Incubus

Review: Rare movie, horror, about the living dead – do not watch it could not, even as far in advance would be foolish to not introduce a course of action for the benefit of the description of the plot. After spending some time as a spectator, I hasten to share their experiences and objective observations of this unusual opus.

Is to first identify the movie entirely firmly anchored in the “two pillars” – erotic horror. Critically examining the first component will point out that the director did not crossed the fine line by going into porn. It is erotic, no doubt. However, most of the lesbian scenes and given the subject, but I think a similar aspect to more restrained than the same director’s aesthetic known Tinto Brass and Catherine Breillat – creator of the female. However, not as deep (as some pieces of music have called this a couple), but only entirely visual. More known that the film disliked and ridiculed by many because of a few actresses are far from ideal model and age. Well, hard for this beautiful half of humanity in the face of performers major parties, because some much closer poetic nature ladies naturalness and womanhood than youth-cut “90 – 60 – 90.” This is purely an individual matter, one better than another, therefore, can not be critical to reject the nested forms of eroticism. More to be added to the background of the story: the beach, the old stone buildings, and going to the contrast – lackluster hotel room.

In addition, the director wanted to “blow up the public” of his sadistic touch of eroticism. I do not know, was a success or not, and attempts have been right because the second half of the story line – horror. This horror The Mansion of the Living Dead is based on initial unexplained assumptions, when the idyll of four persons sunbathers fly sharp cleaver hiding from the hand of man. And closer to the middle of all the cards will be opened, and the viewer can see the scene with the living dead, who initially raped the researcher beach and killed after the ritual knife. In my opinion, first, for a carefree sensuality initial idea a failure, say the word classic “hero Alexander the Great, but why break chairs?”, That is actually for what so paint thickening, and secondly, make-up and zombies are so ridiculous lame that he openly is a human face on something imposed thin transparent paper with brush strokes almost watercolor, apparently on the idea of ​​symbolizing the scabs or anything like that. In some extras at all rubber masks in the style of a skull, bought on Halloween, no less. It makes you laugh, without betraying a hint of a full professional makeup. Thus, the atmosphere of fear crumbling house of cards in a draft.

In fact, and as a result, the viewer gets the first half of the movie – lesbian erotica (for a small reservation on a pair of “natural” scenes) with the earth beautiful real women and part-time actress, though acting and there should not be in the frame, this is such a pun , in decent scenery, and closer to the middle of the pops unexplained mystical enigma and a wave of brutal violence against some shadowy sect of the walking dead, but naive – even – Symbols, for the sake of visual blight prescribed performance scenes in the atmospheric collapse.

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 La mansión de los muertos vivientes 1985