The opening scene of the 1977 Spanish horror classic Satan's Blood likely won't encourage those hoping for a step up from the usual sex and gore. In the first five minutes, a woman is led into a room full of black-robed devil worshippers, who strip her naked, kiss her from neck to crotch, then stab her with a long knife. But when the movie repeats a version of the scene later, it isn't so run-of-the-mill anymore. Credit an intervening hour in which co-creators Carlos Puerto and Juan Piquer Simón take full advantage of their Madrid locations and the relaxed censorship of the post-Franco era. Satan's Blood is the kind of movie where a zestful married couple (played by Ángel Aranda and Sandra Alberti) spend an afternoon sipping café au lait and going to see Star Wars before joining a couple they just met for a weekend of greased-up four-way sex on a pentagram rug.
