Directed by Jorge Grau (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie), who co-wrote the story with Juan Tébar and based it on a story by Guy de Maupassant, Violent Bloodbath also goes by the titles Death Penalty, Night Fiend, Penalty of Death and The Private Life of a Public Prosecutor.
Judge Oscar Bataille (Fernando Rey) believes in the death penalty and several men have been put to death because of him, some of them perhaps innocent. While he’s on vacation with his wife Patricia (Marisa Mell), he discovers copycat murders of those who have been put to death because of his work. At the same time, Patricia is having an affair with her ex-husband Wilson (Espartaco Santoni). As the murders continue, we wonder, could Bataille be the one doing them? Or is it someone else near him?
A lot of people seem to have a problem with the title of this movie, expecting, well, a bloodbath. Instead, they get a soap opera about a judge with OCD dealing with his past and his wife trying to decide between safe love and dangerous lust. It has a solid idea and the story is good, so if all you care about are murders and gore, there are plenty of slasher movies to enjoy.
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