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La Horriplante Bestia Humana is a gory, misogynist exercise in rape, wrestling, and thoracic surgery from Mexico's premier father-son "Z"-movie team René Cardona and René Cardona Jr. Essentially a remake of the elder Cardona's Doctor of Doom, laced with more sex and violence for more tolerant European audiences, this sleazy exploiter stars José Moreno as a brilliant but misguided surgeon (aren't they always in movies like this?) who tries to save his ailing son (Armando Silvestre) by
Feb 6, 1969 Wide
Jun 14, 1989
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Even the tolerant Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film deems this 'totally tasteless and amateurish,' but gore buffs should be alerted to real open-heart surgery footage.
With its dizzying combination of hard-core gore (eye, ear, nose, and throat gougings in bloody close-up), gratuitous nudity, rampaging monster, actual footage of open-heart surgery, and masked Mexican wrestlers, this is a tough one to ignore.
It's well made and a film for our VHS markets back in the day no doubt. And even the cover warns of its gory violence (To get people into viewing it). But its pretty bad without much going on throw the first scenes but it gets good somewhat. Still horrible prodcution values but a creepy looking setting for a mexican
August 9, 2011
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Hilariously cheesy Mexican shocker. Good to watch for a laugh, mostly due to the humourously gory make-up effects. There's also a far bit of gratuitous nudity which was added for the international release of the film. Entertaining awfulness.
January 9, 2011
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