A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is horribly burned. After he undergoes an operation to reconstruct his face, he begins to plot his revenge against his former mistress.
Practical Effects
Grotesque burn makeup that still squirms six decades later.
Acting
Barry Sullivan's bandaged rage versus Martha Hyer's unhinged desperation.
Director
Julio Coll
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Soledad Miranda appears briefly before becoming Jess Franco's doomed muse in the 1970s.
This Spanish-American co-production grafted Hollywood noir onto European exploitation, creating an identity crisis the film itself mirrors.
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