Original Spanish title MUERTE DE UN QUINQUI [Death of a Brute]

director: Leon Klimovsky
starring: Paul Naschy · Carmen Sevilla · Henry Gregor · Frank Brana · Julia Sali

    

A jewel heist goes wrong, resulting in several deaths. In the chaos, Marcos (Paul Naschy) takes off with the loot and goes into hiding. He hooks up with an old girlfriend who helps him get a groundskeeper job for a reclusive filthy rich family. With gang boss Martin (Frank Brana) on his tail, Marcos settles into his new shadow-life with the dysfunctional family, brazenly seducing [and raping] both the wife and teen daughter. Please note: This is a unusual Naschy film, featuring a meanspirited, insanely vicious Paul with virtually no redeeming qualities. He plays a psychologically scarred quinqui [Spanish slang for an unhinged gangster] with an intensely vicious streak, deep rooted problems with women, and a hair-triggered murderous rage. This is Paul Naschy's darkest role, more monstrous than ever before [or since].

Paul Naschy (born Jacinto Molina) is best known for playing his werewolf character, Waldemar Daninsky, through a series of films that began with MARK OF THE WOLFMAN (1968) and ended with WEREWOLF IN THE AMAZON in 2005. However, during his long half-century career, he would make over 100 movies, from the obscure early entries [under the alias David Molba] DYING IS A CRIME and FURY OF JOHNNY KID to his jungle actioners KILMA: VIRGIN OF THE JUNGLE and TARZAN IN THE MINES OF KING SOLOMON to bizarre fringe projects like THE TRANSSEXUAL and SHADOWS OF BLOOD. He also directed many films including the critically acclaimed FRENCHMAN'S GARDEN, HOWL OF THE DEVIL and his final movie, the female-vampire infested EMPUSA. Paul Naschy died of pancreatic cancer at age 75 in 2009.

Leon Klimovsky was originally from Argentina, where he became a filmmaker after 15 years of working as a dentist. He and his family moved to Spain in the mid '50s, continuing his career, working mostly on Spaghetti Westerns. He switched to the horror genre with Paul Naschy's WEREWOLF VS THE VAMPIRE WOMEN and DR JEKYLL AND THE WOLFMAN, continuing with other International hits (i.e., STRANGE LOVE OF THE VAMPIRES [Night of the Walking Dead] and VAMPIRES' NIGHT ORGY. In 1975, he once again joined forces with Naschy for the giallo DRAGONFLY FOR EACH CORPSE, followed immediately by this grim crime actioner. At age 89, Mr Klimovsky suffered from a heart attack and died April 1996 in Madrid.