Crazy and macabre comedy written and directed by Alfonso Paso, inspired by 'The Residence', a horror film by Narciso Ibanez Serrador. Two offenders commit a murder and unwittingly decide to separate. One of them found refuge in a villa. Palmiro, a boy from the house who everyone consider silly, discovered him.
Acting
José Luis López Vázquez's sweaty, desperate physical comedy.
Direction
Paso's gleeful tonal whiplash between horror and slapstick.
Costume
Peak 1970s Spanish bourgeois fashion as visual punchline.
Director
Alfonso Paso
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paso was Spain's busiest playwright-filmmaker, churning out 40+ films in 15 years — this parody of Ibáñez Serrador's prestige horror exemplifies his irreverent commercial instincts.
Florinda Chico and López Vázquez were frequent Paso collaborators; their chaotic domestic energy here nearly hijacks the murder plot entirely.
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