Hunchback of the Morgue
Hunchback of the Morgue is a 1973 film from Spain, directed by Javier Aguirre, running 79 minutes. reelscum files it under fantaterror.
- Year
- 1973 · 1970s films
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 79 min
- Director
- Javier Aguirre
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (44/100)
- Also known as
- Rue Morgue Massacres · The Hunchback of the Rue Morgue
Defined in the glossary: Fantaterror
Naschy's grisliest, and the one where the rats were not an effect.
Paul Naschy plays Gotho, a morgue hunchback in love with the one dying woman who was ever kind to him, who keeps her corpse and starts killing to protect it while a cellar-dwelling mad scientist puts his talents to worse use. It is the goriest thing Naschy ever fronted, wall to wall with acid-melted faces, a hacksaw and a slippery basement monster. It has also been dogged for fifty years by the rats in the crypt scene, which were real and did not survive the shoot.
Peak grim Naschy, and the one even his fans warn you about.
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The cycle in depth
- Fantaterror: the Spanish horror boom, 1968 to 1976
Two cuts of every film, one for the censor in Madrid and one for the drive-in. Democracy killed the trick in two years.
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