Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Kaydan Christian
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
jadavix
Gotho is a hunchback with an intellectual disability who works in a morgue. Everyone humiliates him constantly with the exception of one young girl he has known since childhood. The girl is sickly though, and when his fellow mortuary assistants attempt to rob the corpse, Gotho turns murderous.Noticing his abilities, a doctor at the local hospital begins to experiment with creating a new lifeform, a "primordial" grown from the bodies of the dead gathered for him by Gotho. The lifeform at first looks like a pile of squid innards resting in a large testtube, and there is a trap door leading to a pool of sulphuric acid in the laboratory floor. Gotho, despite his below average intelligence, supposedly created the lab himself; it looks like something a Bond villain would be at home in.Ridiculous details like that aside, the movie is really too depressing to be all that much fun. It's one of the most gruesome movies Naschy made: one scene has him supposedly cutting up a real human corpse for the camera. The live rats being burnt to death was something we also really didn't need.
EyeAskance
Paul Naschy plays a hunchback morgue attendant who loves a terminally ill woman. When she dies, he takes her body to a filthy subterranean torture chamber(where rats eat away her face), and implores a nut-case scientist to resurrect her. He agrees, and the two begin an experiment which(naturally) requires various body parts(donated generously by murder victims). Said experiment yields a mushy, growling primordial entity, ever-starved for human flesh.This over-the-top cheap thrill ride plays out like a classic vintage horror melodrama, but is loaded with pretty gross gore spots. A weird and worthy slice of old-school film trash. As they say-- they sure don't make them like this anymore.5.5/10
HumanoidOfFlesh
Paul Naschy plays Wolfgang Gotho,a hunchback who supplies corpses to a doctor in his hidden underground morgue.The Doctor then feeds the rotted flesh to his creation of a living head attached to a tank full of guts.Gotho supplies corpses to the doctor in exchange for the promise that the doctor will restore life to the cadaver of his dead lover.This is surely Paul Naschy's best character role which won him awards at the Paris fantastic cinema convention in 1973."The Hunchback of the Morgue" is an extremely gory and atmospheric horror film that should please fans of Eurohorror.The evisceration of the doctor in the morgue,the beheading of the other doctor and the dismembering of the student from the inn are only a few of its gory moments.The locations sets(the catacombs)provide plenty of Gothic atmosphere and the acting is great.Still the scene where Gotho burns the rats feasting on Ilsa's body is pretty disturbing,because apparently real animals were killed during it.Overall,"El Jorobado de la Morgue" is definitely not for everybody.The film is quite explicit in its gore,but if you like Spanish exploitation flicks give this one a look.8 out of 10.
matt zodiac
Paul Naschy is great in this gory and old-fashioned horror flick. He plays the soft-spoken and (initially) gentle morgue attendant who is in love with a terminally ill patient in the hospital. She is the only person in the hospital who is nice to him, and he brings her flowers every day until she inevitably dies, and ends up in the morgue. Naschy loses it, and takes her corpse into a hidden cave. Once a mad doctor discovers Naschy's secret, he blackmails him into supplying bodies for his ghoulish experiments. This film is imaginative and fun. In one scene, Naschy is attacked by lots of (real) rats. There's plenty of gore too, and the ending is outrageous.
