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  • 12/27/2014
87 min - Horror - September 1975 (USA)

Paul Naschy plays a hunchback with below average intelligence who works at the morgue. He is in love with a sickly girl who happens to be the only person who is kind to him. Each day he brings her flowers until the day she dies. He never really accepts her death and believes she is just sleeping. The girl eventually ends up at the morgue where she is being prepared for burial. Naschy's character flips out at the desecration of the girls body and stabs and decapitates the men in the only scene of gore in the movie. The police begin to look for him. This is when the Hunchback meets up with a mad scientist who's work isn't accepted by the general society. The scientist promises the Hunchback that he would re-animate the girl's body if the Hunchback brings him fresh body parts from the graveyard and live victims. He uses the parts to create a monster.

Director: Javier Aguirre
Writers: Javier Aguirre (screenplay), Alberto S. Insúa (screenplay)
Stars: Paul Naschy, Rosanna Yanni, Víctor Alcázar
Transcript
00:00Death is on its way. Beware the Hunchback of the Morgue, a freak of nature, a slave with
00:14a body broken from torture, a maniac with crimes beyond your wildest terrors. What kind
00:28of underground horror chamber is he building? What kind of monster is he creating? Why does
00:38he need more and more flesh? Who is he? What is his weird secret? The secret that strangles
00:53an entire city with fear. The secret you'll remember all the way to your coffin. The secret
01:07that made him the Hunchback of the Morgue.