Empusa marks the final work of Paul Naschy , who died in 2009 , whom is dedicated in memorian the film . Dealing with a student of the occult , Abel (Paul Naschy) , equipped with a luscious flowing wig , an assortment of do-rags , crossbow and seven daggers . Abel's best pal is Victor (Antonio Mayans, Jesús Franco's regular), and the opening moments of the film find the two stumbling upon a severed hand of a young woman bearing an eclectic wrist tattoo that is washed up on the shore of a beach . Abel's social life is an enviable one . Although not much of a sight himself , he still shacks up with attractive women such as Natalia (María Jesús Solina) and Christabel (Cristina Carrión), the latter of whom he finds enjoying a nude stroll in the ocean waves . Along the way , he uses many methods to combat a cult of female vampires known as Empusas . Victims of Empusa are turned into more conventional vampires and Abel insists on keeping the hand , much to the chagrin of Victor, who wants to notify the authorities .
It's a B-movie and low budget entertainment with abundant sensationalistic scenes and a Naif style . Naschy infuses Greek mythology, chiller , folklore , nudism, Grindhouse-level bloodlust , cheesy scenes , adding tongue-cheek into a project that works better in its first half than its second . The first half plays like a weird but serviceable buddy-comedy between Abel and Victor who while walking on the beach dispose a severed hand , and he discovers that belonged to a victim of the Empusa , but shenanigans are far too slight to be meaningfully articulated . The second half has Naschy once again battling enemies at a grotto , the alluring bloodsuckers Empusas.
Naschy - the Spanish cult horror filmmaker - produces, writes, and directs himself playing the eccentric retiree who takes on a group of female demons in Ancient Greek mythology style that are essentially vicious vampires . The movie has a bit of ridiculous gore with loads of blood similar to tomato and is occasionally an engaging horror movie full of blood , gore and irony . Empusa is overstuffed , scrappy , messy and underwritten , made for a small group of people who enjoy unearthing lost gems . Unknown Vampire movie with the unforgettable Jacito Molina , under pseudonym Paul Naschy . His obsession with the Empusas only deepens and culminates in a violent encounter at a cave that dominates a great deal of the third act . Long time ago , the continental Europe's biggest horror icon created his classic character , Waldemar Daninsky , and from now on frightening to viewer. The legacy of films left by Paul Naschy was so enormous that dared to be original enough , if sometimes victim of his own bloated ideas . Jacinto Molina Aka Paul Naschy , who recently passed away, was actor, screenwriter and director of various films about the personage based on fictitious character, the Polish count Waldemar Daninsky. The first film about Waldemar was ¨The mark of the Wolfman (1967)¨ by Enrique Eguiluz , after that ¨Night of Walpurgis¨, ¨Fury of the Wolfman¨ , ¨Doctor Jekill and the Wolfman¨ ,¨The return of the Walpurgis¨, ¨Howl of the devil¨, ¨The beast and the magic sword (1982)¨ that is filmed in Japan and finally returning as El Hombre Lobo or Wolfman for the umpteenth time in ¨Licantropo (1998). After ¨The craving¨ it was such a box office disaster that Jacinto was bankrupt . He was forced to turn to Japan for making artist documentaries, as he filmed ' Madrid Royal Palace and Museum of Prado' and he gets financing from Japanese producers for ¨The human beasts¨, the first co-production Spanish-Japan and followed ¨The beast and the magic sword¨. Some of these works are peculiar, even lackluster, succumbing to a great deal of incoherence , yet doesn't amount to much satisfaction from disjoined pace , but seldom dull and, if nothing else, conscious-expanding in the willingness to venture into horror genre .
