Captain Orpheus Cambarro is the film's answer to Captain Obed Marsh. Arriving in Imboca during a famine, Cambarro turned the village to the worship of the monstrous Dagon, killing those who resisted. Forming a religion with himself as Dagon's High Priest, Cambarro began to sacrifice villagers or outsiders to Dagon while offering women to be raped by Dagon and the Deep Ones to bear new children for Imboca. Driven by fanaticism, Cambarro is the originator of all the evil of Imboca in the present.
Imboca's nameless priest, and Uxia's second-in-command, is a frozen-cold cultist with a seemingly singular fondness for Cold-Blooded Torture. Completely lacking in Uxia's redeeming qualities, the priest whips up a mob to pursue Paul and his friends to see them sacrificed or made breeding fodder for the Deep Ones. When Imboca's harmless town drunk Ezequiel helps Paul, the priest kills him by peeling his face off in the most excruciating way possible, and attempts to do the same to Paul before Uxia stops him.
The acting of some of the extras, especially if you understand Spanish and Galician, can be worthy of some unintentional chuckles.
Paul struggling to attach a pathetic tiny lock to the hotel door, which clearly won't hold back the mob anyway.
Paul finding out that he's half Deep One and attempting to immolate himself in response is a powerful moment. Unfortunately, it is immediately undermined by Uxia throwing off her robe, turning into a hilariously bad CGI model, and sort of ... pinwheeling her way over to Paul to yank him into the water.
Retroactive Recognition: For Spanish viewers, Macarena Gómez playing Uxía. She would later be well-known from the comedy TV series La que se avecina, released seven years later, although she did continue to play dark roles in thrillers and horror films and TV series like 30 Coins.
Special Effect Failure: Near the end of the movie, Uxia throws off her robe and rushes over to Paul in a desperate effort to stop him from killing himself. Unfortunately, in doing so she becomes a hilariously bad CGI model that looks a lot like the infamous Scorpion King from The Mummy Returns. This is all the more notable given the excellent practical effects the movie employs everywhere else.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: There's a good argument that Barbara would have made a better protagonist. She's strong, capable, and handles herself much better than Paul.
by Carles Cases is in equal parts mysterious, epic, sinister, and haunting — all in all, perfect for an H. P. Lovecraft adaptation.