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Selección Terror: El ojo del Infierno

· 1975

Selección Terror: El ojo del Infierno
El ojo del Infierno This Spanish-language serial by Burton Hare opens at Bloomfield Manor, where Major John Caldwell and his wife await the arrival of his brother, Colonel George Caldwell, during a violent snowstorm. The Colonel arrives despite the weather, recently retired from service in India. Tension emerges when the Caldwells' dog "Tigre" reacts with inexplicable aggression toward the Colonel. After a horse pulling the Colonel's carriage becomes mysteriously frightened and dies—bearing a strange burn mark on its neck—the coachman flees in panic into the blizzard, screaming. When the brothers investigate, they discover puzzling details: the carriage door shows signs of violent impact from inside, and most disturbingly, two sets of footprints follow the coachman's—one belonging to a barefoot adult whose feet leave barely visible impressions despite deep snow, while the coachman's tracks show desperate flight. The brothers follow the trail into a copse of beech trees as the narrative breaks off, establishing a gothic mystery in an isolated country estate.

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