Spanish director Eugenio Martin is not a name familiar to the average American moviegoer but for fans of European genre films, he has developed a cult following over the years, thanks to the release on DVD and Blu-ray of some of his better known titles. Among these are the fast-paced, enormously entertaining sci-fi/horror/train disaster hybrid Horror Express (1970) with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas, the giallo The Fourth Victim (1971) starring Carroll Baker, and A Candle for the Devil aka It Happened at Nightmare Inn (1973) in which two religious fanatic sisters are behind a series of murders. Martin also helmed several entrees in the Spaghetti Western genre such as The Ugly Ones (1966), Requiem for a Gringo (1968) and Bad Man’s River (1971) featuring Lee Van Cleef, James Mason and Gina Lollobrigida but some of his efforts defy easy categorization like Aquella Casa en las Afueras (English title: The House on the Outskirts, 1980), which is like a woman-in-peril melodrama crossed with an “old dark house” thriller. Throw in some unspoken but implied social commentary on women’s birthrights and you have a rather unique film from post-Franco Spain.