Tras El Cristal (In A Glass Cage)
This one gives little away on the cover, but it's a Spanish horror with English subtitles. I've got the Cult Epics unrated/uncensored/special edition version (figured I'd start stating the version as a lot of these have cut versions with a lot of the violence etc omitted)
The story follows an ex-Nazi doctor who was posted up in concentration camps. Due to his position of authority, he's able to commit sex crimes on little boys. Eventually after the war, he goes to Spain where no one knows him, gives into his warped peado sexual fantasies, and out of shame for his action attempts to kill himself by jumping from a roof...
He fails, but his body is crippled.
He's then kept alive on a giant iron lung machine, unable to move. His wife and daughter minister him until one day a male nurse arrives to take care of the doctor. They develop a weird relationship, the nurse discovers the Nazi doctors diaries and starts reading them - later re-enacting the acts out back on the doctor.
This involves, among other weird shit, jacking off into the Nazi doctors face while his crippled body is help in an iron lung, unable to move. It's pretty fucking disturbing even if you don't 'see' that much on camera.
The male nurse almost relishes the opportunity of exerting this power, that the doctor once used to have, and he gets keen to kill himself. Between turning the doctors house into a Nazi war camp knock off, and killing the doctors wife by hanging her over a balcony, he starts acting like the doctor would have - dressing in his nazi uniform and later abducting young boys to kill via lethal injections of gas direct to the heart.
It's not an easy ride this one. The sound made by the pump on the iron lung machine pumping oxygen is used to great effect to build tension, I thought they utilised that brilliantly. This one doesn't rate so highly as some of the more graphic ones I have in the collection, but this is a great film none the less. The psychological horror and leaving bits up to the viewers imagination works well.
There's a part near the end where the male nurse forces the nazi doctor to suck his cock while being kept alive on the iron lung, and the doctor dies by choking on the nurses penis, eyes rolling back as sperm/saliva drips from his face. Brilliant, but not for everyone. Pretty disturbing though, as Spanish horrors tend to be. I've only seen this and The Skin I Live In so maybe I'm making that assumption a little early on about the Spanish, but yeah, from what I've seen their plot lines in horror films are WAY out there haha!
Check it out.
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