The man who saw Frankenstein cry (2010)

As it can be seen in his home letter box, Jacinto Molina was two people at the same time. On one hand, he was the  furrier’s son from Postas street in Madrid and the young man who almost went to Rome and Tokyo Olympic Games. On the other hand, Paul Naschy, the myth who signed autographs  for hours in New York and Los Angeles and the one who received a call from Steven Spielberg asking him for copies of his films.

Hosted by the American director and screenwriter Mick Garris (Masters of Horror, The Stand, The Shining), THE MAN WHO SAW FRANKENSTEIN CRY revises the career of both aspects, intermingling them in order to explain how Paul Naschy figure would have never existed without the thousands of anecdotes that make up Jacinto Molina’s biography. For this, part of his personal photographic archive was recovered and essential places of his life will be visited, as for example the town of Mazcuerras in Cantabria, where he lived during some years of the Spanish Civil War, or Burgos, where part of his imaginary was moulded, imaginary that was expressed  in his cinema, and also it’s the place where he is buried nowadays; or his own house where he received fake bomb parcels from extreme right ideology supporters for being part of films such as Comando Txikia or El Francotirador. At the same time, cinema friends as John Landis, Joe Dante or Caroline Munro will talk about their experiences with Naschy and will dissect his career, telling anecdotes and less known periods of the filmmaker’s life.

Produced by Scifiworld, the fantastic cinema leader publication in Spain, in collaboration with La Cruzada Entertainment and Waldemar Media, THE MAN WHO SAW FRANKENSTEIN CRY will be premiered in the International Film Festival of Catalonia, Sitges 2010, a festival that has become one of the most important ones among all the other European festivals dedicated to fantastic cinema, and that is preparing a great tribute to Jacinto Molina.