Gotho is a hunchback with an intellectual disability who works in a morgue. Everyone humiliates him constantly with the exception of one young girl he has known since childhood. The girl is sickly though, and when his fellow mortuary assistants attempt to rob the corpse, Gotho turns murderous.
Noticing his abilities, a doctor at the local hospital begins to experiment with creating a new lifeform, a "primordial" grown from the bodies of the dead gathered for him by Gotho. The lifeform at first looks like a pile of squid innards resting in a large testtube, and there is a trap door leading to a pool of sulphuric acid in the laboratory floor. Gotho, despite his below average intelligence, supposedly created the lab himself; it looks like something a Bond villain would be at home in.
Ridiculous details like that aside, the movie is really too depressing to be all that much fun. It's one of the most gruesome movies Naschy made: one scene has him supposedly cutting up a real human corpse for the camera. The live rats being burnt to death was something we also really didn't need.
Noticing his abilities, a doctor at the local hospital begins to experiment with creating a new lifeform, a "primordial" grown from the bodies of the dead gathered for him by Gotho. The lifeform at first looks like a pile of squid innards resting in a large testtube, and there is a trap door leading to a pool of sulphuric acid in the laboratory floor. Gotho, despite his below average intelligence, supposedly created the lab himself; it looks like something a Bond villain would be at home in.
Ridiculous details like that aside, the movie is really too depressing to be all that much fun. It's one of the most gruesome movies Naschy made: one scene has him supposedly cutting up a real human corpse for the camera. The live rats being burnt to death was something we also really didn't need.