Night of the Executioner (1992 Spain)

 Night of the Executioner (1992 Spain) 

Dr. Hugo Arranz is celebrating his 50th birthday with his wife and daughter, 

when vile hoodlums break in, rape and kill both wife and daughter and cut off 

his tongue in fairly graphic fashion. Fortunately he survives and unsurprisingly

 goes all vengence on their punk asses, after some training with knives, guns 

and weights. Director/star Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina) proves a dab hand with 

the material, though showing his age his past as a weightlifter enables him to 

pull off some impressive lifting during the training sequence, and while he takes 

a comically short time to become a sharp shooting, knife throwing master, he wears 

a face of such grim determination that his character becomes believable. Its a fine 

performance in a stony sort of way, he does little more than occasionally nod his 

head or shift an eyebrow but is never dull, he radiates a cold, unfeeling menace, 

stark urge for vengeance that really fits the material. (IMDB) NV