'Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll' is a moderately entertaining Spanish Giallo with just enough going on to keep you interested with enough suspenseful scenes & an overall grim atmosphere with a decent murder mystery plot & interesting reveal at the climax. But this does lack the finesse of the genre's more finer efforts, but it does manage to superficially capture the feel of them though.
The plot follows Gilles (Paul Naschy) who arrives in a small town looking for work & soon finds himself employed as a groundskeeper at the home of three sisters who like him have dark secrets of their own. However, at the same time young blonde women begin to get murdered and having their eyes cut out & the local police soon think Gilles is the culprit, or is he?
There is some voyeuristic sleaze going on with the near first-person perspective murder scenes and in this regard, it struggles to really deliver in the murder scenes, which are fairly brutal, but lacking in showmanship, what should come across as shocking, merely comes across as flat in its construction. While the plot is moderately intriguing, begins to falter very quickly into camp territory with cartoonish motives and methods.
Overall, despite an alluring title & an interesting premise, this falls a bit short.
The plot follows Gilles (Paul Naschy) who arrives in a small town looking for work & soon finds himself employed as a groundskeeper at the home of three sisters who like him have dark secrets of their own. However, at the same time young blonde women begin to get murdered and having their eyes cut out & the local police soon think Gilles is the culprit, or is he?
There is some voyeuristic sleaze going on with the near first-person perspective murder scenes and in this regard, it struggles to really deliver in the murder scenes, which are fairly brutal, but lacking in showmanship, what should come across as shocking, merely comes across as flat in its construction. While the plot is moderately intriguing, begins to falter very quickly into camp territory with cartoonish motives and methods.
Overall, despite an alluring title & an interesting premise, this falls a bit short.