’7 Murders for Scotland Yard’ ‘Jack el destripador de Londres’ (original title) 1972
A question to my fellow film fans - Why is this man so popular !?
Paul Naschy aka Jacinto Molina Alvarez is the worst leading actor I’ve ever seen.
Ok, so there are loads of poor or even incompetent actors that have come and gone over the years, so why single out this individual ? Because, there are rare occasions when watching a movie that something just isn’t right, and you’re witnessing more than just low grade talent.
In the case of Naschy it’s like observing mental illness - Never have I seen the projection of needy self pity and off the chart narcissism than in this guy’s ‘performance’. It’s only the second of his films that I’ve watched, but the ‘characterization’ are identical. The poor hard done by, nobody understands me, brooding, more commonly seen in sulking adolescents.
Why does he have a cult following … is it simply because some people enjoy watching crap, and the worse the better ?
What I personally found so risible and repugnant are the so called ‘Small Man Complex’, aspects … the over compensation by some who believe that being shorter than average needs to be balanced with aggressive machismo.
One truly outrageous and completely unnecessary example is when Naschy’s character, ‘Pedro’, suspected of a series of Jack the Ripper style murders, has escaped from the police (even though he maintains his innocence ) The detective at the scene reports back to the Inspector on the case, to whom he gives a physical description. The actor playing Inspector Campbell, Renzo Marignano was extremely tall, 6’ 4½" (1.94 m) The young detective describes Naschy’s character as being slightly shorter than the Inspector !!! Naschy is listed on some sites as being 5’ 8" and that’s probably an exaggeration. Not that it matters one jot to the audience, but the line has clearly been added at the insistence of the ego manic leading man.
The evidence !
The film itself is poorly shot, on location in London, but almost certainly done without any filming permit. Photographed through the window of a parked car etc. The plot is ridiculous and makes little sense, plus you can spot the baddie almost immediately 
I won’t be watching any further Paul Naschy films - 2 out of 10 … only because it was slightly less awful than ‘2019: After the Fall of New York’ 
Even Kristofferson is quite embarrassed about it, and it’s very quickly dismissed in the Peckinpah documentary.