The Hanging Woman

Spanish horror dvd overstuffed with cool extras
The recent Troma DVD is the best option to date for watching this gloomy, atmospheric chiller about the walking dead. Most versiosn are missing gore or nudity, but Troma has taken great pains to present a complete presentation, albiet sourced from a few different places. Teh film is presneted with the English dub ( no original Spanish with English subs ) and with all the 'good bits' intact.
The disc really excells in the extra department as well, with three interviews with the people responsible for it's creation, a director's commentary track in Spanish with English subtitles, a trailer and poster gallery, and a complete second feature, THE SWEET SOUND OF DEATH from 1965.
If you are a fan of Spanish horror or Paul Naschy ( he is very good here in a supporting role )you simply cannot go wrong here, especially for the asking price.

Not a great zombie film...
I bought "The Hanging Woman" from Amazon.Com for two reasons. A, once I found out what the story was, I was really interested, and B, look how cheap it is! Perfect.

The story is about a man named Serge who, upon his arrival in some small village in the 19th Century, comes across a woman's hanging body. He finds the family of the woman, and thus, he stays with them. (?) Well, a lot of the movie is a jumble. An investigation on the woman's supposed murder, a woman at the house who is involved with black magic and some ugly necrophiliac guy who lives under the house, and the owner of the house being a scientist experimenting with the dead. This somehow all comes together when Serge and Doris, the scientist's daughter, team up to solve some of these mysteries. It climaxes with the dead rising in the caves under the house, with Doris trapped in there, and Serge fighting off death up at the house as the mystery of it all starts to come into place.

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This Troma DVD represents amazing value for money with two films on the disc plus the kind of extras for the main feature you used to get from Anchor Bay and Blue Underground all for a super low price. The picture and sound quality are both acceptable for such a rare movie, which is not a classic, but is very good for such a low budget production, with some creepy-ish moments and sprinklings of gore, but the desolate village location and underground scenes are effectively distinctive from other pictures of this genre. Paul Naschy steals every scene he's in and no-one puts in a shoddy performance. I'd never seen this film before, but I'm proud to add it to my collection. I can only hope Troma gains the support of horror fans enabling them to acquire more rare treats to pour some love over, the DVD case is nice too in a white case with terrific cover art. My 5 star rating is for the overall package of value and love shown to fans by Troma.

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