Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Norman Bird, Liliane Brousse, Arnold Diamond ...( see more  see more... ) , Donald Houston

Kerwin Matthews, playing a dissolute drifter down on his luck, is stranded in a cheap bar in Spain where he falls for Annette, the pretty daughter of the proprietor, played by Nadia Gray. Nadia Gray g...( read more  read more... )radually shifts the young man's attentions to herself, rather than her daughter, and together Matthews and Gray concoct a plot to help Gray's estranged husband, now a homicidal maniac confined in an institution after a grisly series of killings dubbed "The Acetylene Murders" by the press, out of the mental institution so he can escape from the country.

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Directed by: Michael Carreras

Release Date: October 30, 1963

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  • March 12, 2008
    ...this is classified as 'horror'... wtf?.. no way.
  • October 8, 2007
    A really ggreat slasher movie that goes back to the basics.
  • August 17, 2007
    pure sleaze, vile, disgusting gore flick
  • July 13, 2007
    One of the first true slasher movies and one of the best, it still made me turn away in 1 scene!

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