Summaries

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse. The eccentric get obsessed with the film of the low budget horror filmmaker and research what happened with the author which disappeared. The research will lead the characters to fall deeper in drugs addiction. Finally it is discovered that the low budget filmmaker was absorbed by his camera and the eccentric prepared himself to be absorbed too.

In the grip of substance addiction, and trapped in a complicated, almost destructive relationship with his actress girlfriend, Ana, the frustrated horror-movie director, José Sirgado, returns home after a long day in the editing room. There, a woman in his bed and a surprise in the shape of an intriguing package await him: a spool of developed Super-8 film and a cassette tape created by Pedro, an obsessive filmmaker and strange cousin of Sirgado's ex-girlfriend, Marta. Now, as José devours the mysterious but equally captivating audio-visual material, using heroin as a means of enlightenment, an inscrutable correlation between the vampiric force of José's poison of choice and filmmaking is starting to take place. Will they find the pathway to rapture?—Nick Riganas

Details

Keywords
  • drug addict
  • hallucination
  • concierge
  • arthouse horror
  • spanish horror
Genres
  • Fantasy
  • Mystery
  • Horror
  • Drama
Release date Aug 25, 1983
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Unrated
Countries of origin Spain
Language Spanish
Filming locations La Mata del Pirón, Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain
Production companies Nicolás Astiarraga P.C.

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 55m
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.66 : 1

Synopsis

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