Paul Naschy is your typical disgusting pervert per usual - in this feature, he's downright intellectually disabled and in one scene he actually has drool in his beard it's super gross - and this time he's a necrophiliac who can be called to the bedside of a living witch if she wraps herself in a funeral sheet and burns incense. Of course the point isn't her own thrill (good lord let's hope not) but manipulating the slow, deranged Igor to do her evil bidding.
Enter a leering blond man. He leers more than any leading man should in a 19th century period horror-drama. I think it was the 1970s mustache that bothered me most of all. Every time a woman entered the room I expected disco porn music to play. Speaking of women, there are three main women who are supposed to be significantly diverse in age (a young virgin, a wicked step-mother, and a murdered/suicidal step-daughter) but they all look exactly the same age which makes me wonder if I got a badly dubbed copy.
The Hanging Woman (or literally, The Orgy of the Dead) looks a lot like a Hammer or Amicus film from the same period, except I'd argue that it's even better looking - the film quality is on par with an Italian giallo, however the story is definitely not.
Passable atmospheric late night entertainment but nothing special.
Enter a leering blond man. He leers more than any leading man should in a 19th century period horror-drama. I think it was the 1970s mustache that bothered me most of all. Every time a woman entered the room I expected disco porn music to play. Speaking of women, there are three main women who are supposed to be significantly diverse in age (a young virgin, a wicked step-mother, and a murdered/suicidal step-daughter) but they all look exactly the same age which makes me wonder if I got a badly dubbed copy.
The Hanging Woman (or literally, The Orgy of the Dead) looks a lot like a Hammer or Amicus film from the same period, except I'd argue that it's even better looking - the film quality is on par with an Italian giallo, however the story is definitely not.
Passable atmospheric late night entertainment but nothing special.