Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: Spain

Only a Coffin is also known as Les Orgies du Dr. Orloff and yes, that’s the title I prefer.

Howard Vernon wasn’t supposed to play Dr. Orloff in this, but once you realize that it has a lot of the same locations as The Awful Dr. Orloff and that, well, everyone just wanted him to be Dr. Orloff again, it makes sense.

He gathers all of his equally horrid relatives to his castle to tell them that he’s dying of cancer. And PS, he’s spent all of the family fortune. That said, he’s insures himself for millions and tells them that only one of them can get it at which point he kills himself.

The family covers it all up just in time for nephew Daniel (José Bastida) to get into bed with his secretary Judith (María Saavedra) and his poor, innocent wife Greta (Danielle Godet) to discover them. His body disappears as well — is this a giallo? — and then Greta thinks that she has found Orloff’s exhumed body before he attacks her.

Only Pablo (Adolfo Arlés), Daniel’s brother, believes her. So when he digs up Orloff, he finds his sibling’s body and…someone else. Someone not Dr. Orloff.

As you expect, Dr. Orloff is using this night to kill everyone he ever wanted to kill. Would we expect anything less? Well, a little, as this is a Santos Alcocer movie (he also made El Coleccionista de cadáveres, which was released in the U.S. as Cauldron of Blood). Which means it’s fine, but if Jess Franco made it, it would live up to that Orgies of Dr. Orloff name.

They tried, however, by adding BDSM inserts of a masked man and three naked women being tortured in scenes that have nothing to do with the plot. I love this idea and wish that movies I have no interest in watching but have to — holiday movies, romantic comedies — had random moments of gratuitous nudity and non-sex sex.

You can download this from the Internet Archive.