Embrujada

This is the first Armando Bó/Isabel Sarli film I have watched. As all of them, it is an Argentine sexploitation in which her bombshell body appears naked several times (Sarli was the wife of the director... quite intriguing couple!) The innovation here is the presence of a monster, folklore creature El Pombero, who looks like a devil in the film and is sexually obsessed by her (and indeed possesses her in another way). Unfortunately it takes half of the film for him to appear. The story is confusing and the elements are not well connected, partially due a weird edition. Footage of a former Bó's film, "Índia" (do you guess who is the nude Indian?) Is included many times, but it is not obvious or explained that the Indian is the very same woman in the leading role of "Bewitched" (well, it is explained only after one hour!). She is married with a violent logger, who even whips an employee (?!!!), and is impotent. As she desires so much to have a baby, she looks for other men, making her husband have the most contradictory reactions (Armando Bó's alter ego, perhaps?!). Script is a chaos, as you can see... Acting is no better. Some actors are particularly embarassing. The film improves after the first half hour, but it never becomes good. The film is also somewhat racist: the Guaranís are told to bring the curse of her race, and she says that she wants a blond child with blue eyes. With another cut the film would probably become a better horror movie. Not a disaster, anyway.