A moderately entertaining Spanish giallo.
Handyman Gilles (Naschy) arrives in a small town looking for work and soon finds himself employed as a groundskeeper at the home of three attractive sisters.
However, these aren't your ordinary sisters.
One is a certified (if beautiful) nymphomaniac, another is a wheelchair-bound invalid and the third is a defensive pretty with a prosthetic hand.
But when young blonde women begin turning up murdered around the countryside - with their blue eyes viciously poked out - the local police suspect the shady Gilles as the culprit.
Not surprisingly, though, there's more here than meets the, uh, eye.
It seems Gilles' mysterious female employers have a bevy of dark secrets all their own...
This watchable Naschy thriller has some decent atmosphere and a few nice set pieces (most notably the interesting climax/revelation). It's also good to see Naschy out of his werewolf subgenre and here he proves himself capable in this non-monster effort.
Also known as either as Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll or as The House of Doom.
Spanish: Los ojos azules de la muñeca rota.
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