una vela para el diablo and or the rather more poetic if pointless a candle for the devil a it more commonly know amongst english speaking audience and be set in a small spanish village where american tourist laura barkley ( judy geeson who be in fact english ) be try to locate her miss sister may ( loli tovar ) who be a photographer . laura try the small guest house where her sister be stay and it run by two elderly sister marta ( aurora bautista ) and veronica ( esperanza roy ) who claim that may leave that morning but who in fact hide a terrible secret . a laura investigate her sister whereabouts she learn martha and veronica lie to her and when another young attractive tourist name helen miller ( lone fleming ) mysteriously disappear laura be convince all be not a it seem at the guest house . this spanish production be co write and direct by eugenio martin and be a pretty lousy way to spend 85 minute of your time . the script by martin and antonio fo take itself extremely seriously and be a bit patchy and character come and go with little regard for flow narrative and people action and motif be questionable to say the least and the dubbed dialogue be poor and i be not really sure who this will please . for a start the body count be low and there no mystery elements or interest in whodunit a that make perfectly clear from the start and the exploitation level be virtually zero and to try and spice thing up a bit there be a few unpleasant sex scene and i mean if your go to show a sex scene at least have a decent look actress rather than a near old age pensioner . it seem that a short 68 odd minute version be more readily available than the 83 minute version i saw and personally i would be glad that it run for 15 minute less a that 15 minute of your life you do not have to waste watch this poor excuse for a film . i also have to mention the end which be one of the bad ending to a film i have ever see and basically laura be trap in the house with the mad sister and look out the window a a angry mob of villager approach and then it just finish a if they run out of film or someone forget to include the last reel . director martin do ok and he capture a certain feel of the spanish location but i be not sure what . there be a couple of sequence approach horror but it not scary and there no tension and it lack any suspense . if your look for gore forget it and there a couple of stabbings and an eyeball in a meal and a decapitated head and some blood splatter but generally speak this be very tame stuff . thing fare well on the nudity front but the actor use aren not exactly model material and unusually there be full frontal male nudity although i only mention it because it be unusual and not because i be gay or anything . this be obviously a pretty cheap production and it show and it quite well make for what it be i suppose and at least it be shoot on film and on location so that also give it a cinematic look . it always difficult to comment on act when people have be dub and here the english dubbing be pretty terrible although maybe geeson speak english on set . una vela para el diablo be a rubbishy piece of euro crap that not really sleazy or exploitative enough to satisfy me and i be sure there will be many out there who feel the same . i want to like it but i do not and disappointing .