A group of decadent expatriates live in a small coastal Spanish village. They include a washed up Hollywood actress (Carroll Baker), a drug addicted poet (Dennis Hopper), a flaming homosexual (Win Wells, who also wrote the script), an ex-WWII pilot (Richard Todd) and his alcoholic wife (Faith Brook). When a strange group of "hippies" visit the village, mysterious deaths begin to occur. Directed by Silvio Narizzano (GEORGY GIRL), this unsavory film is incoherent and makes no sense. I suppose one could describe it as surrealistic but that's just a cover up for the movie's incomprehensible plot. The characters have names like Treasure (Baker), Chicken (Hopper) and Alice (Wells). There's blood drinking cats, slaughtered pigs and a child being trampled to death by an indifferent crowd. Despite the American and English cast and a Canadian director, this is a Spanish film. There's also an uncomfortable scene where a black woman (Alibe Parsons) is racially humiliated by Hopper that's positively revolting and Wells' swishing predatory gay reeks of homophobia. Previously having played siblings in GIANT (1956), Baker and Hopper's film careers were sliding at this point so I suppose they took what they could get. Retitled BLOODBATH for its U.S. release.
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