Ever since they got rid of Franco (well, not so much got rid of him as meekly waited for him to go away) their cinema has been making leaps and bounds in becoming one of the most depraved in the world. They've been desperately trying to take over the French, and they're very close.
Because cinema is a fairly good reflection of the society that creates it, in Europe at least, I suspect that this society must be in need of a major clean-up. But that's a topic for some other time and place. Besides, most western nations need major reconstructive surgery, because the patient has never been as demented, confused and as cretinous.
This idiotic thriller for bird-brained sadistic perverts is not only based on several preposterous premises, but it is predictable nearly every step of the way. I managed to predict 95% of all the "surprises", and not because I'm brilliant (which I am) but because anybody could predict most of them.
Dumb premises:
SPOILERS
1. That a famous actress's corpse can be accessed and then sexually molested by just about anybody. I am pretty sure real morticians would laugh their asses off at how stupidly mortuaries are portrayed here. This is the pervert's view of the medical profession. A moron's view also.
2. That 2 out of 3 (i.e. 67%) regular young men (and these three are intended to be just average guys) would resort to necrophilia at the drop of a hat. This idiotic premise (about widespread interest among male youth to stick their peckers into corpses) was abused even worse in the even more idiotic though at least somewhat stylish piece of trash called "Deadgirl". But at least that girl was a zombie so we understood her behaviour. You can read more in my review of this stinker.
3. That a body pronounced as dead could simply come back, for no reason. Again, someone (the writer of course) isn't taking the medical profession seriously at all. The writer essentially knows zero about bodies, biology and mortuaries and is basically drawing up all this baloney out of his dumb ass. He was making it up as he went along: no idea was too dumb or too far-fetched not to be used to complete his pathetic screenplay.
4. That a "famous beautiful sex-bomb actress" would look as mediocre as this very average-looking actress playing Fritz. She neither has the looks nor the body to be a modern-day Monroe - which is basically how she'd been introduced. Not even close. The scene when they reveal her face had me laughing out loud. I had kind of expected it (because it's a Spanish film) but I still couldn't not find it funny. They might as well have placed Rosie O'Donnell in there, if laughs were what they were after.
5. That "Anna Fritz's body's location is being kept secret" because - somehow - this dumb movie wants us to believe that nowadays actresses have such a strong, fanatical, massive, cult following that when an actress snuffs it at a young age authorities have to take extra precautions to hide her body because masses of fans would be hurling into the mortuary to touch it. Laughable. 100 years ago cinema had this kind of magic pull on the audiences, when a guy like Valentino drew thousands of hysterical mourners into the streets. This doesn't happen anymore, not even close. The stars of modern cinema haven't got that kind of wide cultural appeal anymore, such huge impact; such extreme actor worship hasn't been around since 50 years, or more. Maybe in India it still exists, no idea, but not in the West.
Not to mention what a DUMB name Anna Fritz is. Which self-respecting actress of world renown wouldn't change her name? Into something sexier, like Anna Estrada. Sillier yet, she is a Spanish actress. Fritz? You gotta be kidding me. So her mother had a fling with a drunken German tourist at Mallorca? This title would work in a black comedy though.
It's very convenient for the incompetent writer to not allow Anna to walk - at all. She can speak, move her head, yet somehow she is paralyzed. What a cretinous plot-device. Nothing about this movie rings true even remotely. Except one thing... explanation follows.
How about the fact that a RAPE brings her back to life. Shouldn't she have THANKED the rapist for "resurrecting" her? Instead, she kills him. Well, at least that was realistic: that a "world famous actress" would act this thanklessly to the person who resurrected her - and later saved her life - is the only realistic thing about this crappy little turd-cake of a pelicula. I could certainly picture Emma Watson or Jennifer Lawrence stabbing their saviour 11 times with no emotion or remorse...
Perhaps the writer is making a world-wide appeal with this movie to allow molestation of fresh bodies, in order to find out which corpses are still alive. This may be a revolutionary new sport that the world can partake in, or at least Spain...
Because cinema is a fairly good reflection of the society that creates it, in Europe at least, I suspect that this society must be in need of a major clean-up. But that's a topic for some other time and place. Besides, most western nations need major reconstructive surgery, because the patient has never been as demented, confused and as cretinous.
This idiotic thriller for bird-brained sadistic perverts is not only based on several preposterous premises, but it is predictable nearly every step of the way. I managed to predict 95% of all the "surprises", and not because I'm brilliant (which I am) but because anybody could predict most of them.
Dumb premises:
SPOILERS
1. That a famous actress's corpse can be accessed and then sexually molested by just about anybody. I am pretty sure real morticians would laugh their asses off at how stupidly mortuaries are portrayed here. This is the pervert's view of the medical profession. A moron's view also.
2. That 2 out of 3 (i.e. 67%) regular young men (and these three are intended to be just average guys) would resort to necrophilia at the drop of a hat. This idiotic premise (about widespread interest among male youth to stick their peckers into corpses) was abused even worse in the even more idiotic though at least somewhat stylish piece of trash called "Deadgirl". But at least that girl was a zombie so we understood her behaviour. You can read more in my review of this stinker.
3. That a body pronounced as dead could simply come back, for no reason. Again, someone (the writer of course) isn't taking the medical profession seriously at all. The writer essentially knows zero about bodies, biology and mortuaries and is basically drawing up all this baloney out of his dumb ass. He was making it up as he went along: no idea was too dumb or too far-fetched not to be used to complete his pathetic screenplay.
4. That a "famous beautiful sex-bomb actress" would look as mediocre as this very average-looking actress playing Fritz. She neither has the looks nor the body to be a modern-day Monroe - which is basically how she'd been introduced. Not even close. The scene when they reveal her face had me laughing out loud. I had kind of expected it (because it's a Spanish film) but I still couldn't not find it funny. They might as well have placed Rosie O'Donnell in there, if laughs were what they were after.
5. That "Anna Fritz's body's location is being kept secret" because - somehow - this dumb movie wants us to believe that nowadays actresses have such a strong, fanatical, massive, cult following that when an actress snuffs it at a young age authorities have to take extra precautions to hide her body because masses of fans would be hurling into the mortuary to touch it. Laughable. 100 years ago cinema had this kind of magic pull on the audiences, when a guy like Valentino drew thousands of hysterical mourners into the streets. This doesn't happen anymore, not even close. The stars of modern cinema haven't got that kind of wide cultural appeal anymore, such huge impact; such extreme actor worship hasn't been around since 50 years, or more. Maybe in India it still exists, no idea, but not in the West.
Not to mention what a DUMB name Anna Fritz is. Which self-respecting actress of world renown wouldn't change her name? Into something sexier, like Anna Estrada. Sillier yet, she is a Spanish actress. Fritz? You gotta be kidding me. So her mother had a fling with a drunken German tourist at Mallorca? This title would work in a black comedy though.
It's very convenient for the incompetent writer to not allow Anna to walk - at all. She can speak, move her head, yet somehow she is paralyzed. What a cretinous plot-device. Nothing about this movie rings true even remotely. Except one thing... explanation follows.
How about the fact that a RAPE brings her back to life. Shouldn't she have THANKED the rapist for "resurrecting" her? Instead, she kills him. Well, at least that was realistic: that a "world famous actress" would act this thanklessly to the person who resurrected her - and later saved her life - is the only realistic thing about this crappy little turd-cake of a pelicula. I could certainly picture Emma Watson or Jennifer Lawrence stabbing their saviour 11 times with no emotion or remorse...
Perhaps the writer is making a world-wide appeal with this movie to allow molestation of fresh bodies, in order to find out which corpses are still alive. This may be a revolutionary new sport that the world can partake in, or at least Spain...