Saturday, October 28, 2017

Night of the Scorpion (1972)


Bengala Film (Spain)
Directed by Alfonso Balcázar
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Dorado Films)

Widower brings his new bride to live in his large mansion with his sister and stepmother. They give them a frosty reception, to say the least, then his alcoholism makes a gradual return. He is tormented by guilt about his wife, whom he may have accidentally murdered in an alcoholic rage. A knife-wielding killer shows up in the last half hour or so, but too late to save this from the first hour's melodramatic dreck. Beautifully shot in sun-drenched Spain, but another disappointing giallo.

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