The deliriously grimy B-movie marvel 'El Espectro del terror' (1973) remains some sublimely sordid, girl-goringly grim, Giallo-esque Spanish Horror sleaze from midnight sinema's most decadent age. This pulse-poundingly perverse peep-show was perfectly perpetrated by malevolent muck maestro José María Elorrieta. A savagely psychopathic skell Charley (Aramis Ney) is daily tormented by a livid interior squall of murderous fantasies until he succumbs to the deviated demands of his blackened id, whereby Charley fatefully enacts these most diabolically degenerated dreams in Elorrieta's relentlessly unsavoury backstreet stalking Iberian insanity. This uncommonly grubby, low budget trawl through the mephitic mire of male toxicity is exotically electrified with the breathlessly beautiful presence of exquisite Euro-starlet Maria Perschy! As through violently wrested from the luridly disordered coils of a foully distempered brain, 'El Espectro de terror' garishly abounds with salacious discords; as once this slug-eyed,dementedly doll-tormenting, super-sweaty, hyper-introverted freak's orgiastic obsessions fully take over, the sin-soaked screen eerily erupts in a calamitously crimson conflagration of murderously misanthropic mania! No woman is EVER safe when monstrously malign deadbeat Charley is out on his bloody night beat hunting for hourglass street meat! The notable grindhouse grooves are provided by fabulous fear-funkers Frederico Contreras & Javier Elorrieta. The more corruptible celluloid sin seekers who secretly crave the more illicit late-night oeuvre of Jess Franco, Renato Polselli, and Michel Lemoine just might be more synchronized to dig on the darkly dissonant grindhouse grooves herein!
