Necrophagous
- Year: 1971
- Country of origin: Spain
- Genre: Horror
- Director: Miguel Madrid
- Length: 86 min
Film Synopsis
Necrophagous (1971) follows a grieving nobleman who returns to his crumbling ancestral castle after his wife’s death during childbirth, only to find unanswered questions, hostile relatives, and cryptic signs that something unnatural stalks the surrounding tombs. As he digs deeper into the empty graves, strange experiments, and the unsettling behavior of locals, the boundary between life, death, and monstrous transformation tightens into dread. This gothic horror blends eerie atmosphere and macabre mystery in a bizarre, cult European shocker.
Critical Perspective
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Wow, this is bad, and what’s worse is you don’t know how bad it is until you’re halfway through it and you realize, wow, this is bad. Then you see the monster responsible for this and words can’t explain how bad this is. … low-budget horror at its worst.
Danny Shipka, Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980 (McFarland, 2011)
Necrophagous Blu-ray & DVD editions
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| Disc Extras | Severin BD-ALL/US 2024 | Image DVD-1/US/OOP 2002 |
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| Audio Commentary by Andy Marshall-Roberts | ||
| The First Horror Film Festival in the World - Interview with Maria Pilar Rafáles | ||
| Something You’ve Never Seen - Interview with Ángel Sala | ||
| Theatrical Trailer as “Graveyard of Horror” | ||
| Theatrical Trailer as “The Butcher of Binbrook” |
Edition and Packaging Notes
- Severin’s Blu-ray is included in the “Danza Macabra Volume Three: The Spanish Gothic Collection” box set with Cake of Blood (1971), Cross of the Devil (1975) and The Night of the Walking Dead (1975).
- Image’s “The EuroShock Collection” DVD contains no extras.
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Collector’s guide
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The First Horror Film Festival in the World (11:02) -
Something You’ve Never Seen (8:06)
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Severin BD 2024
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| Extras | Audio Commentary by Andy Marshall-Roberts Severin BD |
| The First Horror Film Festival in the World - Interview with Maria Pilar Rafáles Severin BD | |
| Something You’ve Never Seen - Interview with Ángel Sala Severin BD | |
| Theatrical Trailer as “Graveyard of Horror” Severin BD | |
| Theatrical Trailer as “The Butcher of Binbrook” Severin BD |