(Anguish)
(1986)
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(Anguish) (1986) |
A group of people watching a movie about a mama's boy who gouges people's eyes out is terrorized by a real murderer.
Also known as: Anguish (American title)
Subgenres: postmodern
Director: J.J. Bigas Luna
Starring: Zelda Rubenstein, Michael Lerner
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"Postmodern" has become one of the nineties keywords, and now look--here's a postmod horror film made during the eighties. Unfortunately, it's a potentially interesting gimmick that is seriously handicapped by a poor script. I can respect what the filmmakers were trying to do, with the movie-within-a-movie, but in order for it to work, the "real" scenes have to be better-written than the film-in-a-film--it certainly helps the believability. No, the "real" scenes aren't silly, but they're protracted and at times frustrating. (We have to put up with enough noisy, selfish moviegoers in real life; why should I feel like I should shush them in a movie?) In short: interesting concept, mundane execution. (Dec 7, 1999) | ||||||
