Year: 1973
Duration: 01:41:01
Directed by: Eloy de la Iglesia
Actors: Vicente Parra, Emma Cohen, Eusebio Poncela
Language: English
Country: Spain
Also known as: La semana del asesino (Spain; original title) | The Apartment on the 13th Floor
Description: Marcos accidentally kills another man after an altercation. He gets frightned and disposes of the bodie in the slaughterhouse he works at.
But this event only arouses in him the deepest pulsions he was keeping and he goes on into a violence spree that will lead him to acts of cannibalism.
A powerful drama that serves as a metaphor to the paranoia of the final years of General Franco’s dictatorship.
Review: Spanish horror thriller about a loss of self-control and the establishment of a maniac because of fear. Everyday tie in random killing entails disclosure of insanity in a very brutal incarnation. The main character manages to kill the next day curious, climber unravel a bloody secret, well, dead refers to meat, putting people in human meat patties.
The opening scene – perhaps the most memorable in the entire movie. A sort of documentary check endurance, consisting of shooting killing and butchering of animals at work. Cinematography seventieth always loved to show the main evil is not something mystical, monstrous or foreign, and most of the common man, making of welcoming strangers possessed maniacs of the attempts to have fun – with a bunch of violent deaths and the most common people to throw violent insanity, psychosis, and serial murder. In the scene zabienie cattle for meat, this unjustified human cruelty as well as possible spills in naturalism of its manifestations, pushing the central core of the idea through the other events of the film.
Variety of murder by strangulation to broadswords were taken up by the slasher genre, and put in the center of the plot itself, with all its killer cockroaches in my head, it was once a very popular technique, but by the mid-eighties, the emphasis has shifted to the victims or police officers. Here in the movie 73rd year it is possible to enjoy the full path of becoming murderers, his problems and experiences on different occasions.
Naturalism and realism of what is happening on a regular basis is supported by some trick of the next, or even passionate sex scenes. The search for the animal early in human nature lead to three basic instincts – to rape, kill, and eat. True even though the updated name “killer Week” in the U.S. box office – “Cannibal» (Cannibal Man), eat their victims protagonist not only did not seek, so still and know that the soup is put that same meat from the factory, it suffers nausea and madness. So that fans of cannibalism in the film is nothing to catch, and the psychoanalyst Freud raised to absurd visual feast savagery maniacal madman.
In addition to the main character, all the rest are either unnecessary frippery for the background, or the next future victims, somehow we learn about the room with the dismembered bodies. The only exceptions are always spying and stuff to friends obviously gay man, to impose the central character of their friendship and their society.
The film is too simple and linear, in principle, it is not in the negative, but only one of the characteristics, but also moments of tension that are looking with interest to be present in very small amounts, predictability, sometimes tiring, and no interesting characters and the script does not cause proper dive.
Got a standard and a good thriller, which can be viewed at sympathy for the genre, and is sure to enjoy, if not wait for anything particularly fancy. Scare a movie can only one – the idea that at some meat factory have here is the same guy who brings in the shop they dismembered body treatment of victims. And that hamburger or sausage, we eat the meat could get even human. At the expense of those who create their reality on the screen, without digressions into philosophy, psychology or relationship drama, the picture focuses on the more mundane, but no less terrible things everyday. Some rooms are better not to poke his nose, and the composition of the great food it is better not to think.
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