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SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Tonypulp Rojo Sangre is a Spanish full feature debut by Christian Molina. These kind of debutes are perfect measurements to see if there's any talent hidden inside the director. Writer and leading man Paul Naschy came up with a brilliantly confusing and quite frankly almost fantasy/dream-like story line based around an actor who has nothing going for him. Veteran actor Pablo Thevenet has no luck: His daughter has been murdered, his wife has left him, he finds no job, his agent wants to leave him and directors will never give him a role. He hates current talent less stars on TV talk shows. Suddenly, he is hooked up for a job as a living sculpture in a whore house working for Mr. Reficul and his transsexual assistant Dora Grizzel. In the end. Pablo becomes an artistic murderer, searching for those he thinks responsible of his current state. It's a great mish mash of extravagant characters and wildly over the top character development. The film can be very subtle and at the same time it will randomly burst into something rather unsubtle. It's definitely an unpredictable story line and above it all: an unpredictable leading role. There's something about the vibe that will draw your attention from the first to the very last minute. It really is something you can't accurately describe, but you'll find it amusing and disturbing at the same time... once you get into it.The very first scene definitely sets the tone for what's yet to come. A pretty messed up conversation about shoving toy cars up your rectum isn't quite what I was expecting. It's a clear indication that this film is served with a dark sense of humor. It's one of the many qualities. Christian Molina dares to take risks story wise, as well as visually. He has some cool tricks up his sleeves. His scene transitions are amazingly creative.Rojo Sangre is not really a slasher, nor is it anything else in particular. It's a surprisingly well made mixture of genres with great performances (Paul Naschy really knows how to put on a show) and the many twists will keep you guessing throughout the entire film. A must see!

Indra Suresh Pretentious. Profoundly ignorant of the Genre. Plain wrong semantics and ghastly performances.One would think, given the scale of this production (several Million Euros) that the Producers would have certain need to perform, that they would make a movie suitable for their peers: The new emerging Cinema Directors, Sadly it is anything but.The Photography is nothing but a cheap lookalike to the amalgamate many other directors have accomplished for this Genre, it fails promptly right after the Initial establishing shot and goes under ever since.The Storytelling is suitable for 1st grade Cinema School students, it never gets off the ground, and you can't but feel sorry for Naschy when you realise the poor Direction this film has.On the VFX lines...let's just say I have seen better work done in After Effects by a freshman in College, Spanish Cinema is going underwater and without an air tank, as my old pappy used to say, it's now dead, dead, dead.

Marian Rossenberg I'm still puzzled as to why in god's name did the Film commission in Barcelona let Christian Molina deliver such a bad piece, when all Catala people brag about is their "compelling visuals and design", well, this is yet again another example of bad choices, bad Cast and bad Directing, Photography never get's up in gear, the Lighting is awful, VFX are so wrongly put together and Prosthetics look like "Hasbro" made them (kid's toy manufacturer).I didn't get immersed into the story at any point, even when Paul Naschy and Bibi were in it, you would expect the Director to have some sort of responsible act in delivering with such great actors, well, don't wait long, as it is evident from the intro sequence it will all go down quickly.A bad story with wrong semantics and just plain wrong crew.Don't waste your hard earn bucks on this one.

HEFILM Paul Naschy for years was among the top John Belushi look alikes in the world. He of course was also a big horror star in Spain and re-edited versions of his best known werewolf films played on chiller theater TV packages as I, and many other horror fans grew up. Most of the stars of 60's horror films are gone sadly and now that horror films are again very popular they aren't around to enjoy a final film. Christopher Lee of course is alive and well, but has so far "only" been in non horror films during this new interest. Vincent Price was in some films for Tim Burton, but these too were small parts in non genre films. And lets not think too hard back a few years to Bela Lugosi going on working for Ed Wood or those last few lousy Boris Karloff Mexican productions.So congratulations to Paul Naschy for being in what is a very creative horror film and showing that he's a better actor and still a very cutting edge writer all these years later. This is a slick film, gruesome and creative on many levels. It's a good and or better than anything he's ever been in or made. Though he's playing a character somewhat like himself, a former horror icon, there is little trace of self consciousness in his performance.Naschy had recently been in two American Horror films, but let's admit that they are two lousy films from two lousy filmmakers. He also had a fun small role in a not so bad Spanish film SCHOOL KILLER a few years ago. But for him in his native land to get this film made,let alone for it to be a good film, it's just well almost unheard of triumph.There is little nostalgia in my thoughts towards this film. It stands on it's own even if you aren't a Naschy fan, or if you think of him as sort of a camp figure from the past. If you haven't heard of him this would be a great introduction.Most actors could only wish for a comeback film like this in any genre. Let's hope this isn't the final film for Naschy because he shows he's still got it in him to do cutting edge horror.