Crimson [Blu-ray]

Director: Jean Fortuny

Overview

In this Spanish horror/crime drama, a gangster is shot in the head during a jewel robbery. His accomplices take him to a doctor, who tells them that his brain is destroyed and he needs a transplant. They murder a rival gangster and have his brain transplanted into the wounded robber.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/14/2016
UPC:	0738329206963
Original Release:	1973
Rating:	NR
Source:	Redemption
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	1:29:00
Sales rank:	26,636

Special Features

Standard 89-minute version and the complete, more sexually explicit 98-minute version; Audio commentary by horror film historian Richard Harland Smith

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jacinto Molina	Jack Surnett
Oliver Matthews	Actor
Silvia Solar	Actor
Evelyne Scott	Actor
Víctor Israel	Actor
Claude Boisson	Actor
Paul Naschy	Actor
Daniel White	Composer

Technical Credits

Jean Fortuny

Marius Lesoeur

Jean Fortuny	Director,Screenwriter
Marius Lesoeur	Executive Producer,Screenwriter,Producer

Editorial Reviews

Yet another grotesque Paul Naschy vehicle, Crimson is a hybrid crime thriller and sci-fi story that delivers all the dismemberments, medical atrocities, and beheadings so common to the Spanish horror star's films. This time our hero is the leader of a bumbling gang of thieves who ends up badly wounded during a robbery gone wrong. Naschy spends most of the film unconscious with gauze wrapped around his head, waiting for an experimental brain transplant. Meanwhile, his henchmen murder an archrival for use as a donor, bicker for a while over who should decapitate the specimen, then finally just lay the corpse on a railroad track and wait for a train to do the work. Naschy eventually revives to rage half-heartedly against the unnatural experiment performed upon him, but mostly he just holds his noggin and moans about his brain. Crimson is full of memorable moments, such as a dour gangster walking directly on stage to calmly question a frugging go-go dancer, and the requisite clumsy dubbing and inappropriate music score take the viewer into a cracked universe that will either amuse or confuse, depending on disposition. The conclusion finds Naschy stumbling around with a syringe sticking out of his neck, and anyone who is still with Crimson by this point won't be disappointed.