BLUE EYES OF THE BROKEN DOLL

The story concerns a drifter named Gilles (Naschy) who arrives in a French village looking for work. He soon gets a lift from a woman named Claude (Lorys) who sports a prosthetic hand, hiding a gruesome deformity. She gives him a job as a handyman at a large house owned by her and her two sisters: nymphomaniac redhead Nicole (Leon) and wheelchair-using Yvette (Perschy). Soon after he sets up doing chores around the grounds, Nicole takes a strong interest in him and Claude voices her disgust, while Yvette is tended to by a doctor and nurse. As these domestic events occur, a black-gloved killer is murdering blue-eyed women and gouging out their eyes, saving them in a jar of water. Before too long Gilles is painted as a top suspect, due to a shady past involving his abuse of a former girlfriend, and a posse pursues him into the surrounding forest. The men kill Gilles, but the serial killings continue. In the end, it is revealed that a doctor who lost his little daughter to botched medical care in a hospital has kept her corpse in a hidden sanctuary and has been killing blue-eyed women so that he can obtain new eyes for the badly decaying corpse.

After Gilles is killed by a posse who suspect him, the murders continue, revealing that the doctor is the true killer, targeting blue-eyed women to replace his deceased daughter's eyes.

The ending subverts expectations by framing Gilles as the likely murderer, only to expose the doctor’s tragic and deranged motive. It underscores the film’s preoccupation with trauma and obsession, as the doctor’s grief drives him to gruesome extremes. The real horror is not just in the acts, but in the twisted rationalizations behind them.