{"id":26933,"date":"2017-11-16T21:42:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26933"},"modified":"2017-11-16T21:43:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:43:58","slug":"the-paul-naschy-collection-ii-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/16\/the-paul-naschy-collection-ii-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paul Naschy Collection II [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This follow up to the acclaimed Paul Naschy Collection from earlier in the year, comes with a five Blu-Ray collection, and a twenty four page booklet with an essay on each film included. Folks seeking to further explore Paul Naschy will find a great delight in this follow up box set, as it has almost everything you\u2019d want to continue your education in the Spanish horror star.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Hunchback of the Morgue\u201d from 1972 is centered on a hunchback who is working in a morgue and begins to fall in love with a sick woman. When she dies, he goes on a rampage and looks for a scientist, hoping to bring her back from the dead. Naschy plays the hunchback in the vein of many other hunchbacks from other horror films. He possesses a tragic bent, but a twisted sense of love that makes him a bit amoral until the very end. Despite that, it\u2019s a vicious and gory movie, with Naschy playing well with special effects. It\u2019s not a masterpiece, but it\u2019s a solid horror film with Naschy front and center. \u201cA Dragonfly For Each Corpse\u201d from involves a mysterious killer killing deviants on the streets of Milan.<\/p>\n

On every corpse, the murderer leaves an ornamental dragonfly soaked in their blood. Naschy plays a detective this time, trying to find the murderer, and it\u2019s basically a Spanish Giallo film, through and through. It\u2019s a fairly neat and bloodlestt movie, but one with fun atmosphere, and it might just appeal to more open minded Giallo buffs. \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Possessed\u201d is set on a revolt of a king when the people of a town over take a king and his throne, cue violence and mayhem. It\u2019s a more sophisticated Naschy film and period piece that has its fair share of violence and blood shed, but it\u2019s more a dramatic glimpse at an epic historical event. \u201cExorcism\u201d focuses on a young woman who unwittingly participates in a satanic ceremony and ends up getting possessed by the spirit of her dead father.<\/p>\n

\u201cExorcism\u201d is one of the many \u201cExorcist-sploitation\u201d films of the seventies where every single studio from all over the world had to have their own possession movie to capitalize off of the giant success of William Friedkin\u2019s movie. To compensate or lack of mood and strong writing, there are a lot of gruesome deaths, exploitation, and some heavy blood shed. Naschy is the priest faced against the possessed young woman, and it\u2019s a controversial title among horror fanatics. Finally, \u201cThe Werewolf and the Yeti\u201d involves an expedition in the Himalayas where travelers encounter the titular werewolves, a sorceress, and the yeti. It\u2019s a versus monster movie with more broadly mythical monsters that skirts copyright infringement, and it\u2019s a decent monster movie romp.<\/p>\n

Disc One features the censored and uncensored versions of \u201cThe Hunchback\u2026,\u201d along with an audio commentary by Rod Barnett and Troy Guinn of the podcast NaschyCast. There\u2019s also the theatrical trailer, Spanish title sequence, Spanish Credit Sequence, Spanish Intertitles, and a still gallery. Disc Two garners an audio commentary for \u201cA Dragonfly\u2026\u201d with an audio commentary by Author Troy Howarth, an audio-less Theatrical Trailer, a Spanish Title Sequence, a Spanish Credit Sequence, and a Still Gallery. Disc Three features Theatrical Trailers, a Spanish Title Sequence, and a Spanish Credit Sequence for \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Possessed.\u201d Disc Four features an audio commentary by Author Troy Howarth for \u201cExorcism,\u201d as well as theatrical trailers, alternate \u201cClothed\u201d Versions of the Nude Scenes for the Original Spanish Release, and an animated Still Gallery. Finally, there\u2019s an animated still gallery for \u201cThe Werewolf and the Yeti.\u201d<\/p>\n