Suspenseful film that will have you on the edge of your seat until an amazing finale , including engrossing drama , puzzled intrigue and fantastic happenings . Ricardo (José Luis López Vazquez who gives a splendid performing as an art restoring) and Eva (ex-Miss Italy Lucia Bosé who married bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin and mother of Miguel Bosé) are a higher class , wealthy marriage who have a long but cold relationship . Ricardo is an art restorer and has a lover (recently deceased May Heatherly) who works for him . While , his spouse starts a particular lesbian relationship with Patricia (Yelena Samarina) . In their wedding anniversary Eva gives him a luxurious gift : a big Swedish car , a Volvo . Ricardo sets off for his work when he comes across a smoking , overturned car with a person and his child trapped inside but , afraid he'd get bloodstains in his new Volvo , he ignores their cries for help and drives away just before the wreck blows up . Soon after , Ricardo begins having illusions , blood begins pooling in his backseat and he suffers an overwhelming as well as upsetting feeling , and Ricardo , then , can't get the damned spots out no matter how many times he cleans the auto . The nightmare and terror begins and it goes on...
Intriguing film is packed with thrills , suspense , plot twists , and results to be quite entertaining . Stirring as well as exciting yarn displays intense drama , emotion , suspense , puzzled events , twists and turns . This is a suspenseful flick that really thrills . The moving atmosphere and strange intrigue enhance as well as the protagonist suffers the rare events . From start to finish the intrigue and thrilling scenes are continuous till a striking ending . Here filmmaker portraits a selfish society , including fantastic elements and abundant metaphors . There are undercover critiques to influence of religion on family , marriage and social relations by that time . The picture develops a desolate atmosphere and a colorful but threatening ambient in the background , including a surrealist party representing a motley social group . "Blood Stains in a New Car" takes parts here and there from ¨Muerte De Un Ciclista¨(1955) or ¨Death of a cyclist¨ by Juan Antonio Bardem as well as the Italian Giallo and the Spanish Fantastic/Horror or ¨Fantaterror , including their usual zooms . The screenplay is plenty of enjoyable incidentals and interesting events one time the initial accident takes place . Screenplay does something strange by the weird end : it actually removes the stakes of everything that came before with its surprising revelation that had been built up by that point about the strange blood stains . The film benefits itself from a very good secondary cast , such as : May Heatherly , Yelena Samarina , Ricardo Tundidor and Maria Garralón as maid and who subsequently starred the successful series ¨Verano Azul¨.
Dated , inappropriate and imbalanced musical score by Teddy Bautista . Evocative and appropriate cinematography by Manuel Berenguer , being utterly shot in Madrid . This "Blood Stains in a New Car" was well written and directed by Antonio Mercero and resulted to be a flop at Spanish Box office . Mercero is a author of great hits TV series and several award-winning films . In 1970 he started working for TV as he filmed several documentaries and some chapters for the series "Crónicas Un Pueblo" or ¨Chronicles of a village¨(1971) , a big hit in Spain despite its deep ideological content , risky for the period it was made in ; and specially successful were his works in the fantastic genre as ¨The phone booth¨ (1970) (TV) , a TV cult movie , which won 10 national and international awards , including the Emmy Award in 1973 , and ¨Gioconda is sad¨ (1975) . Then he realized ¨Los Pajaritos¨ (1973) , the series "Ese Señor De Negro" or ¨That man in black¨ (1975), ¨La Noche del Licenciado¨ (1978), and his three biggest hit smashes : ¨Turno Oficio¨ TV (86,87) series about advocates in law , "Blue summer¨ or ¨Verano Azul" (1978) which became a sociological phenomenon and "Farmacia De Guardia" (1990) about Apotheke workers . Other important film directed by Mercero was ¨Don Juan Querido Fantasma¨ , an amusing comedy well performed by Juan Luis Galiardo . And , of course , the good natured comedy with brief touches of drama titled ¨Esperame En El Cielo¨ . Others works have been ¨Guerra De Papa¨(77) and ¨Tobi¨ , both of them realized in similar style . Nowdays , he still works for TV as ¨Manolito Gafotas¨ series and some of his latest work in cinema have been ¨The treasure¨ and ¨Hora De Los Valiantes¨ (85) about the Spanish Civil War . His last film was ¨? Y Tu Quién Eres?¨ about Alzheimer illness and starred by Manuel Alexandre . Rating : "Blood Stains in a New Car" , better than average , 6.5/10 . Well worth seeing .
