Decent terror movie about a disfigured woman named Norma : Lisa Gaye , she come across a scientific investigating amazing effects of a serum , trying to synthesize the perfect skin . Then Norma is cured by doctor Charles Taylor : Fernando Rey , who develops a serum on skin of limited effects . But Norma results to be an escaped patient of a mental institution . Along the way she finds a job at a hotel and meets a playboy : Virgilio Teixeira who falls for her , and subsequently they get married . Meanwhile , two Police Inspectors : Emilio Rodriguez , Jose Martin, are investigating grisly events . But then things go wrong . Woman's flesh..Killer's soul ! Female, Yes But ..is she woman...or inhuman, Blood-Mad Beast ?
A creepy and eerie terror movie of the sixties with thrills , chills , intrigue, tension , twists and killings. The story is not massively strong , but it is not bad either , here director strings a few or different threads together and that along with intrigue as well as suspense throughout tends to ensure the film is always interesting and thrilling . Stars Lisa Gaye , Debra Paget's sister , as the nutty patient who escapes from a mental facility and she goes bersek . Fernando Rey gives a good acting , as usual, as a doctor who creates a serum able to repair scar tissue and attempts to cure a deformed woman . They are well accompanied by a motley plethora of familiar Spanish faces , such as : Conchita Cuetos a veteran actress who goes on playing , Virgilio Teixeira as her playboy lover , Gerard Tichy as a doctor , Sergio Mendizabal , Carlos Casaravilla, Ana Maria Custodio, and Emlio Rodríguez, Pepe Martin as Police detectives.
The film follows the wake of the classic "Eyes without face" 1960 the masterpiece directed by George Franju . This issue about doctors undergoing surgical operations to change faces of disfigured women was an ordinary theme in European cinema , especially by Jesús Franco or Jess Frank and his Orloff saga including : "Gritos en la noche" or The awful Dr Orloff 1962 , "El secreto del Dr Orloff" 1964 , "Orloff's Invisible Monster" 1970, "El enigma del Ataud" 1969, "El siniestro Dr Orloff" 1984 and "Faceless" 1987 or Los Depredadores de La Noche . And even Pedro Almodovar himself dealt with this plot about doctors undergoing bloody surgical operations as "La Piel Que Habito" 2011 with Antonio Banderas , Elena Anaya .
The motion picture made in medium budget was competently made by the Spanish Isidro M. Ferry and American William Hole Jr . Spanish filmmaker Isidro Ferri was a craftsman who directed a few films , shorts , documentary , such as : Cruzada en el Mar , Escala en Hi-Fi and El Pisito. While the American William Hole Jr. was a producer/director who made some films such as : Hell Bound , Four Fast Guns , The Continental Twist and a lot of TV episodes from TV series : Peyton Place, 77 Sunset Strip, Colt 45 , Cheyenne , Bourbon Street , Hawaiian Eye , Sugarfeet , Boots and Saddles , among others.
