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(Fin de curso, La cartera, Portman, a la sombra de Roberto, Sexy Killer, Slam)
Producers:
Jaume Roures and Tedy Villalba
Screenplay:
Paco Cabezas
Music:
Fernando Velázquez
Cast :
Bárbara: Macarena Gómez
Alex: Alejo Sauras
Tomás: Cesar Camino
Inspector: Ángel de Andrés
Profesor Anatomía: Juan Carlos Vellido
Clara: Nadia Casado
Jesús: Juan Díaz
Santiago: David Tenreiro
Marisa: Alejandra Martin
A man in a 'Scream' mask
pretends to be deadly to get into the highschool girls' changing room, until he thinks he
sees someone else dressed in the same outfit... except it's another mirror image... but then it turns out it isn't and,
injured, he runs off. The next person he sees, when he thinks it's the baddie after him, is Bárbara (Macarena Gómez, right),
now back in her uniform. They go back into the changing rooms and, well, he basically finds out the hard way that she's
the one: The Sexy Killer of the title.
She also breaks the fourth wall by occasionally talking to the camera and telling us that she doesn't actually have a
reason why she kills, it's just something she does. At one point, while she's in the process of killing a man who just
ran over her new dog in his flashy car, she first recounts the story of her life which has brought her to this point.
Onto the other key cast members and there's Alex (Alejo Sauras), a clever bloke at the college who's working on
a project which can record your own thoughts. Damn, I want one of those! Meanwhile, Tomás (César Camino),
his autopsy colleague, starts going out with Bárbara with no idea what she gets up to, and she gets off on him describing
how he carves up the cadavers... However, for their date she dresses up with a hairstyle that makes her look anything
but sexy and more like Crystal Tipps looking for Alistair! (see below-right)
Anyway, back to the machine and Alex brings back a dead lab rat and hooks him up to the machine to see if they can record
the last moments before he died, since the brain still have minimal activity for an hour after death but, hey, with a
bit of stimulation they can make it work, right? Well, it does but unfortunately, a decent idea regarding this machine
gets overly silly and throws the premise away in the last third of the film. I wasn't expecting the change in direction
and it's one that's been done many times before and here it just seems pedestrian.
BTW, this film is an 18-cert because it glamourises violence, even if it is all ridiculously, and intentionally,
over the top gory fashion.
The film is presented in a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen ratio and looks clear and colourful throughout with no problems
and I'm watching the DVD on a Samsung Blu-ray BDP1500 machine, upscaled to a 37" plasma screen.
However, the sound is only in Dolby ProLogic, which is a shame as the style of the film would've suited a great DTS
soundtrack, but what we have is serviceable here and doesn't have any problems either.
When it comes to the extras... erm... there aren't any.
The menus are all static and silent with an image of Macarena Gómez in her role, there are (necessary) subtitles in
English only and the disc contains 12 chapters, so over the course of 85 mins it could really do with a few more as
I work on the average of one per five minutes, plus opening and closing credits.
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A man in a 'Scream' mask
pretends to be deadly to get into the highschool girls' changing room, until he thinks he
sees someone else dressed in the same outfit... except it's another mirror image... but then it turns out it isn't and,
injured, he runs off. The next person he sees, when he thinks it's the baddie after him, is Bárbara (Macarena Gómez, right),
now back in her uniform. They go back into the changing rooms and, well, he basically finds out the hard way that she's
the one: The Sexy Killer of the title.
The film is presented in a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen ratio and looks clear and colourful throughout with no problems
and I'm watching the DVD on a Samsung Blu-ray BDP1500 machine, upscaled to a 37" plasma screen.
However, the sound is only in Dolby ProLogic, which is a shame as the style of the film would've suited a great DTS
soundtrack, but what we have is serviceable here and doesn't have any problems either.
