The man with a hundred frightful faces is given plenty of additional face-space to flex his uncommonly fearsome facial muscles in the fabulous Faustian phantasmagoria 'Rojo sangre' wherein Spanish Horror icon Paul Naschy gives another bravura performance as ageing down on his luck actor Pablo Thevenet, made melancholy due to personal tragedy and becoming increasingly bitter in response to the almost complete lack of job opportunities. The once lauded Shakespearean Thespian now reluctantly accepts the seemingly lowly position of theatrically adorned, wholly stationary doorman, this curiously well-paid position smilingly proffered to him by the darkly charismatic businessman Reficul(Miguel del Arco) is, perhaps, too good to be true, and the voluminous contract the desperate Pablo signs contains a fatal clause he will soon be dying to break!
'Rojo sangre' is a more than worthy entry in the splendidly grisly canon of its chameleonic, creep-inducing star as he gorily descends into a diabolical Dantean Inferno of Grand Guignol retribution, devilish duplicity, and soul-bartering, B-Movie barbarity, all served up in the inimitably insane fashion of one of horror cinema's most dazzlingly versatile villains, whereby Paul Naschy's majestic mastery of the macabre makes 'Rojo sangre' arguably one of the more wickedly entertaining old school horror films of the noughties! A total classic!
'Rojo sangre' is a more than worthy entry in the splendidly grisly canon of its chameleonic, creep-inducing star as he gorily descends into a diabolical Dantean Inferno of Grand Guignol retribution, devilish duplicity, and soul-bartering, B-Movie barbarity, all served up in the inimitably insane fashion of one of horror cinema's most dazzlingly versatile villains, whereby Paul Naschy's majestic mastery of the macabre makes 'Rojo sangre' arguably one of the more wickedly entertaining old school horror films of the noughties! A total classic!