The hype is what got me stoked on this one. Every horror movie website I read was raving about it when it was running the festival circuit and finally it hit VOD. I put it off for awhile, waiting for the right time to watch a coming of age cannibal family drama. Oh, does that sound weird? fuckin aye..A creepy old dirty dude is wandering aimlessly down the sidewalk of a strip mall, he stops at a display window of two mannequins in bikinis and gawks halfway like he's never seen such a thing and halfway like a weird pervert who can just see this sort of thing, touch the glass and whambamthankyama'am. He continues on his path and before you know it he's on the ground dying, dying, dead. Give the custodians and coroner a couple minutes and this sidewalk is back into shape for the regular, well off bunch to grace it with their feet.
Enter family: two young men, a young woman and their mother getting ready for the days work and wondering where the hell their absent father is. I'm guessing if you know how to read then you can guess who creepy old dude was and through a series of strange communication the daughter finds out about the fathers demise. They panic, not unlike a regular family with the recent news of their passed father/husband, but also very differently; They question and try to promote a new head of the house before the day is even over. See, there's something that needs to be taken care of within the next day and while the father always took care of it before, a new member of the family must step up to the plate and assume responsibility and care and provide in the strangest way for the family. Saying much more might spoil the fun of this insanely delightful piece of Spanish film.
Their really isn't much bad I can say about this film, it's terrificly paced and keeps you invested and interested in the characters throughout its running time and delivers a couple twists and gut punches that make you smile and make you cringe. I won't say it's scary, kinda creepy. It's gritty in a realistic 'holy shit, this probably happens' kind of way.
One one of the covers or one sheets for this I saw a quote that said something like "A cannibal gore-fest", which is a hugely inaccurate way of selling this (though I'm sure it'll bring in some unlikely fans) because I don't exactly remember much, if any, gore. Sure, there is violence and blood aplenty but this is no gore fest. It's exactly what I explained it as, a coming of age cannibalistic family drama, and if that sounds like something you're into and you enjoy all the fixins that accompany a great film like an amazing score, great acting, direction and an original story.. Well, fork over the $7 and get this while it's still on VOD and not waiting in DVD purgatory waiting to be seen by the blockbuster folk.
I was WOW'd come end..
5/5
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