José Ramón Larraz Gil[1] (1929 – 3 September 2013) was a Spanish director of exploitation and horror films such as the erotic and bloody Vampyres (1974), The House that Vanished (1973), Symptoms (1974), Black Candles (1982) and Rest in Pieces (1987) among others.

[2][3] Born in Barcelona, Larraz earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree and moved to Paris in 1952, where he started his career as a comics writer for magazines like Pilote and Spirou.

[4] His most known creation was the action-comic series "Paul Foran", which he wrote under the name "Gil" and also made some artistic contributions to.

[5] Larraz moved to England, where he began making films, then in 1976 apparently [clarification needed] relocated his operations back to Spain.

Symptoms was an official British entry at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.