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| Image: Rojo Sangre (Blood Red) |
Cult star Paul Naschy is back with a vengeance in his latest horror genre outing from Spanish director Christian Molina. Times have changed for actor Pablo Thevenet (Paul Naschy). Once an internationally acclaimed performer, he now finds himself forced to audition for bit parts while younger and less talented upstarts snap up the plum roles. Pablo gets a break when he's hired as a living mannequin outside a trendy club where he is paid to dress up as notorious historical figures such as Jack the Ripper. Disillusioned and humiliated, Pablo embarks on a mission to perform 'reconstructive surgery' on a poisoned industry by going on a grisly killing spree to rid the Spanish film world of talentless pop icons!
Australian premiere. Imported print.
Rojo Sangre screens with Kitchen Sink (PG, Alison Maclean, 14 mins, New Zealand, 1989, Digi-Beta). Alison McKlean's twisted love story starts with a woman finding an ominous black root growing out of her kitchen sink plughole. The umbilical-like vine grows into an adult male covered in hair from head to toe. The woman shaves the catatonic man and the two begin to play out a primal scene of lust and longing.
