The Exquisite Cadaver
Director: Vicente Aranda
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Capucine
The Exquisite Cadaver (Spanish: Las Crueles) AKA: The Cruel Ones is a 1969 Spanish art house exploitation film directed by Vicente Aranda, based on the short story, Bailando Para Parker written by Gonzalo Suárez. The plot follows a well-do-do publisher and family man, who begins to receive severed body parts in the mail two years after his mistress committed suicide. Along with one of these bloody parcels is a letter of blackmail from the dead woman's one time lesbian lover seeking vengeance.
With slow deliberation, a girl lays her head down on railroad tracks as an oncoming train plows forward. Two years later, Carlos, a well-do-do family man and publisher of pulp horror novels receives an anonymous yellow package containing a severed human hand. He buries it in a nearby park. The next yellow package he receives is left unopened on a bench in the city. However, when he arrives home, the package is awaiting him. This one contains a torn up dress and a photograph of a girl. His beautiful wife reads him a telegram asking if he would like a forearm. He feebly attempts to lie about the contents with a work-related explanation to his wife. Now suspicious, Carlos’s wife follows her
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