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Blue Eyes Of The Broken Doll
[Deimos]
1973; color
Directed by Carlos Aured
Starring: Paul Naschy, Diana Lorys, Eduardo Calvo, Eva Leon, Maria Perschy & Ines Morales
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Blue Eyes Of The Broken Doll is a horror film “inspired by Italian Giallo films.” In other words, while Paul Naschy’s character may freak out during the course of the film, he won’t be getting progressively more hirsute. You can tell from the first glimpse of our hero though that his character in this film does shares personality traits with some of his other roles. Mostly because once you get to the point of having watched a number of his films you kinda start to think of his different roles as various shades of Naschy-ness instead of completely different people. Or at least that’s what has happened with me. (The introductions he does for the Deimos DVDs, while they are extremely entertaining, don’t help.) When the film opens we don’t really know what the deal is with our hero but what we do know is, while he may have a sassy maroon jacket and dirty backpack, he is lacking a steady source of reliable transportation. Thus the constant hitchhiking. Luckily, he doesn’t have to stick out his thumb for too long before getting a ride from a farmer. (And he doesn’t even have to share the truck bed with the guy’s pig.) The guy advises he head North to look for work, before dropping him off in the next village. Naschy, of course, does not heed his advice; opting for a walk down an ever more deserted, smaller road before pulling up a stool in the nearest pub. He orders a cheese sandwich and some wine from one of the most Times-Square-diner-circa-the-early-’70s looking waitresses I’ve ever seen in a foreign film and inquires about the possibility of work in the area. The waitress also tells him there’s no work around but, as soon as he goes outside to enjoy his cheese sandwich in the great, dusty outdoors, we learn there is in fact work to be found. If you’re willing to seek employment from a group of sisters who live alone in a house on a hill. Something I’d imagine pretty much any hitchhiking jobless transient who lives out of his backpack would be willing to do. (If you’re not interested in having sex with the sisters you can always kill them and live happily ever after on their property, right?) Despite this attempted work related cockblocking by the waitress, when Naschy heads out for his nightly round of hitchhiking a white car pulls up. Once he looks inside, we see the car is being driven by a beautiful woman (Diana Lorys, star of many other Eurotrash films) with a disfigured arm and a prosthetic hand. Hmmm, I wonder if she has a sister... or two? Of course, she does. During their drive she tells him about how their house is desperate in need of repair, and one of them is wheelchair bound, etc. etc. And such is the story of how Naschy winds up sleeping with all three sisters. Or, rather, moving into their house as a caretaker. (I think he only actually sleeps with two of the sisters.) Then things really start to get interesting, as local blue eyed lasses begin to meet a terrible fate at the hands of an unseen assailant, who adds ickiness to injury by removing his victims eyes, and Naschy’s character starts having violent dreams involving the strangling of beautiful young women. Could this mean our swarthy hero is actually a mur-diddly-urderer not so casually disguised as a mysterious drifter? Well, yeah, it could. I mean, anything is possible. If you want to find out what happens in the movie though, you’ll have to watch for yourself.
—Bunny
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