A Bell from Hell (1973)
AKA La Campana del Infierno. First off, this movie was mainly directed by a guy named Claudio Guerin (sometimes called Claudio Guerin Hill). He fell or jumped from the belltower featured in the film on the final day of shooting and was killed. All post-production chores were handled by Juan Antonio Bardem, the uncle of Javier Bardem. Besides the trivia, this film has a lot to offer. Basically, a young man is released from an asylum and returns to his estate, once again meeting his aunt and three female cousins. The aunt and one of the cousins had him committed for reasons that are later explained, and he's back to get his calculated revenge. The film actually enters some philosophical territory about the real vs. the fake and has some questions about morality. It definitely shows how the main guy has lost all sense or morality, but, well, he's not the only one. There's a bunch of real footage from a slaughterhouse (it appears that the main actor killed one cow), some gore (which turns out to be fake), some incest, and even some incestuous rape (which isn't very graphic but that doesn't make it pleasant). The movie is really more of a thriller than a straight-forward revenge movie, and there are plenty of fun twists.
Tagline (from Pathfinder DVD): Who will escape the terror?
Highlights: The fake gore involving eyeballs. The aunt when she reemerges after an apparent death. The makeshift slaughterhouse the main guy made in his basement for the girls. The themes running throughout, which were actually pretty interesting.
Tagline (from Pathfinder DVD): Who will escape the terror?
Highlights: The fake gore involving eyeballs. The aunt when she reemerges after an apparent death. The makeshift slaughterhouse the main guy made in his basement for the girls. The themes running throughout, which were actually pretty interesting.
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