Devil’s Kiss (La perversa caricia de Satán)

Devil’s Kiss (La perversa caricia de Satán)

1976

Director- Jordi Gigó

Cast- Silvia Solar, Olivier Mathot, José Nieto, Evelyne Scott, María Silva

            Clair is a vengeful Countess who has lost her standing. She married a man who was viewed as too good for her by his family. They turned their backs on him and he killed himself out of depression. She teams up with a professor who is not only telepathic, but is also working on a formula to regenerate dead tissue (yep, you read that sentence right). His formula works on the tissue but does nothing as far as actually generating the spark of life and reanimating the dead. They join forces and hatch a plan for her revenge. He operates on a recently deceased corpse, injecting it with serum to repair its cells. She, using occult rituals, summons the powers of darkness to breathe life into the lifeless husk. Using his telepathy, the professor plans to control the reanimated zombie and have it kill the Countesses enemies.

            There is a fly in the ointment though. The professor has a failing heart and his control over the zombie is slipping. One night, the zombie breaks free of his control and kills some people not on the hit list, including the maid in the mansion that the  professor and Countesses are staying in as guests. No problem, just reanimate her right and no one will know. Except that the zombie maid breaks free of his control and murders someone else. Things get out of control and the authorities get involved as the Countesses’ scheme falls apart.

            The movie is pretty low budget and not particularly scary. However, it’s weird plot of a telepathically controlled, Satanic fueled, Frankenstein-eque monster is pretty original. There’s no telling what they could have done with a larger budget. Watch it if you want some out of the ordinary Euro horror.