This Mexican horror from 1969, originally titled ‘La Horripilante Bestia Humana’ has its fair share of cheap gore and a liberal helping of female wrestlers! It also featured footage of an actual human heart transplant operation in two separate scenes and it was these that added it to the video nasty list, where it remained throughout the panic. All this hadn’t happened when we released it on super 8 and I’m unable to say whether our 16mm master had the sequences or not, but this would seem to be highly unlikely as according to the BBFC site there is at least three minutes missing from the Grand National 1974 theatrical print. In fact it was a remake of director Rene Cardona’s 1963 film ‘Las luchadoras contra el medico asesino’ only in colour and with more blood and nudity. During it’s release on super 8 it would only sell a few dozen copies.
Label courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’
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