Hellraiser-1

this movie is really a remake of "Expertos en pinchazos" an Argentinian comedy made in the seventies and starred by Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel, who were two very popular Argentinian comedians. The plot is exactly the same but apart from me, I am afraid very few people know about the original here in Spain so for fans of the funny duet Antonio Ozores and Juanito Navarro this is a nice comedy as the original was. Ozores plays the same role that Jorge Porcel and Navarro plays the same role that Alberto Olmedo, only that they are a bit older than the Argentinian actors. I think this movie was released straight on video, if it had been made a few years earlier and starred by Pajares and Esteso it could have been a big hit as the original movie was in its country. A curiosity and a must for fans of this "typical Spanish" movies.

This was a really difficult to find until Manga Films decided to edit it in DVD and in fact the quality of the vision is very good but now I know why this movie was so hidden, (I think even in TV it has been never programmed), it is because it is so horrible. It is just a gross, very unfunny comedy to take advantage of the success of Hurtado Sisters, three comedian sisters which become very popular in the TV show "Un, dos, tres"(One, two, three), what a good show it was and the Hurtado played "Las tacañonas" there, which were three very avare sisters which never wanted the participants to take any money, they could have made in fact a movie about those characters in the show instead having made this atrocity, the cast is good, very good comedian actors and actresses of that age such as Florinda Chico, Rafaela Aparicio, Raul Sender or Manuel Gomez Bur, and even the very ugly and so many times present in the casts José Lifante, but they cannot do anything to improve the idiotic plot, written by the way by the director and three guys more, just to write such a thing like that, completely untalented, a pity, Manga Films should not have recovered it, what a waste.

Well, i was for a long time looking for this movie, and i can tell you it was not worthy, quite bad acting and very bad plot. I was this was on the line of very famous Italian movies such as "Ator, the invincible" or "The savage spade of Krotar" but it was not like that, it is worse. Director Joaquín Gómez Sáinz tries to rip-off Conan, and he is at the same time the main character showing he has no charisma anyway. The worst thing about the movie is that it tries to be serious, with very pretentious dialogue, better you should make something funnier, all in all, very difficult to find but not worthy unless you are a completist or a fanatic of sword and sorcery.