Las flores del vicio (1979)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Silvio Narizzano

Writers:

Gonzalo Suárez (screenplay)
Gonzalo Suárez (story)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality...

Plot Keywords:

Hippie | Female Nudity | Urination | Swimming Pool | Spain

Cast

Dennis Hopper	...	Chicken
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sofía Aldanondo
Carroll Baker	...	Treasure
Faith Brook	...	Heather
David Carpenter	...	Salt
José Castellví
Matilde del Pino
Inma de Santis
Francisco Fernández
Ana Pastor
Antonio Rebollo		(as Tony Skios)
Francisco Rodríguez
José Rodríguez
Ivonne Sentis
Swan Swan
Maude Sweet
Richard Todd
Win Wells	...	Allen

Also Known As:

Bloodbath (USA)
El cielo se cae (Spain)
Las flores del vicio (El cepo) (Spain)
The Sky Is Falling

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:R | New Zealand:R18

Filming Locations:

Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain

Company:

Eguiluz Films

Quotes:

Chicken: I said "I wanna rape you!" (pours drink over his own head)

Soundtrack:

Natural Me

Forgotten Hopper classic.

Lovers of gonzo movies must sooner or later stumble across the wild and wonderful career of Dennis Hopper. His most interesting and "out there" period is also his least discussed. The so-called "lost decade" from roughly The Last Movie to Apocalypse Now. During this time he wasn't constantly working but he did make movies like Kid Blue, Tracks, Mad Dog Morgan and The American Friend, all due for reassessment. For my money the great lost Hopper performance can be found in Bloodbath (aka The Sky Is Falling), an obscure but worthwhile Spanish horror film. I use the term "performance" loosely because when watching his demented behaviour here you often get the feeling that much of what's on screen was probably similar to your typical day-in-the-life of Dennis in the Seventies! Hopper as Chicken hallucinates frequently, mumbles, rambles, freaks out, shoots up, makes love, quotes Hassan I Sabbah, and terrorises a poor girl by breaking a raw egg in her face and making her sing "Shortening Bread". Yup, it's that good. There are also some nice supporting roles from the zany ex-pats, especially the lovely Carroll Baker (Hopper's costar in Giant!) as a sad, faded Hollywood beauty queen still waiting for "that call" from the Studio.