Una gota de sangre para morir amando (1973)

Director:

Eloy de la Iglesia

Writers:

Eloy de la Iglesia (story) &
José Luis Garci (story) ...

Release Date:

April 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Brutal Savagery in a Future World !

Plot:

Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems. |

Plot Keywords:

Future | Female Psychopath | Sexual Assault | Robbery | Serial Killer

Cast

Sue Lyon	...	Ana Vernia
Christopher Mitchum	...	David (as Chris Mitchum)
Jean Sorel	...	Victor Sender
Ramón Pons	...	Toni
Charly Bravo	...	Bruno
Alfredo Alba	...	Román Mendoza
Antonio del Real	...	Mick
David Carpenter	...	Phil
Ramón Fernández Tejela	...	Nicola (as Ramon Tejela)
Fernando Hilbeck	...	Marido en la casa asaltada (as Fernando Hilberck)
Eduardo Calvo	...	Rehabilitado
Fernando Sánchez Polack	...	Rehabilitado
Paul Pavel
Manuel Guitián
Jean Degrass

Also Known As:

Clockwork Terror (USA)
Le bal du vaudou (France)
Murder in a Blue World (UK) (video title)
To Love, Perhaps to Die

Runtime:

Spain:100 min | UK:101 min (cut version) | UK:98 min | USA:88 min

Country:

Spain | France

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Company:

Intercontinental Productions

Movie Connections:

References Lolita (1962)

The brutal biker is outclassed by the sophisticated savagery in this urban abattoir

A masterpiece of early 70's Euro rip-off madness. It's got Sue Lyon wearing too much greasy make-up and the always underwhelming Chris Mitchum...excited, I am. This is great nonsense of the highest order, if your taste in movies stretches to the more mondo end of the bracket, Jess Franco, bad Italian biker movies, Umberto Lenzi etc you're gonna dig this. Sleeper style futuristic art direction, gay looking hoodlums in shiny red helmets, and Sue Lyons killing hardbodied young men for no explicable reason, aside from the director wanting her to...Genius. This film also contains two superb faux adverts which are hysterical, one for an msg free blue drink, called Blue Drink the other extolling the virtues of masculine leopard spot sex pants. Two heavy handed references to Sue Lyon's previous role as Lolita, why????? because the director wanted to, good enough for me. Plot - some Italian producers saw Clockwork Orange and thought they could do the same, they couldn't...but it's bonza all the same. I picked it up at a market for a £1 and aside from 'Tuxedo Warrior' it is thus far my greatest find. The cover itself is as camp as fairy dust...if you ever are lucky enough to come in contact with this slice of mondo-trasho check it out.