Genre: Thriller, Drama, Horror, Suspense, Murder, Thieves, Detectives, Disturbing, Serial Killer, Investigation
Tagline: Me llamo Ángela. Me van a matar. [English Tagline: My name is Angela. They're going to kill me.]
Plot: Angela is a student who stumbles on a "snuff" film in the bowels of her own college. On watching the tape, she realizes that it shows a female student who disappeared two years earlier. Surrounded by suspects, Angela frantically tries to solve the puzzle. Angela (Ana Torrent) is an eager film student who stumbles on a "snuff" filmmaking studio in the bowels of her own educational establishment. While researching a thesis on cinema and violence, Angela seeks help from her professor (Miguel Picazo) in searching out extreme movies that could not be shown on television. While looking through the college archives, the professor finds a mysterious tape, and promptly dies of anguish while watching it. Angela manages to smuggle the tape home and enlists the help of fellow student Chema (Fele Martinez) in studying it; something of an outcast thanks to his thirst for horror movies, he seems the ideal person to help. But on watching the tape they realize that this is that most elusive of things: a genuine snuff movie, and one involving a female student from the college who had disappeared two years earlier. They're also able to identify the exact camera used: a Sony XT-500. Needless to say, this information soon imperils her life when she bumps into another fellow student, this time a
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 Incredible. Easily the best movie from Spain's Alejandro Amenábar, "Thesis" tackles that taboo topic of horror filmdom -- the urban legend of "snuff movies" -- with real Hitchcockian style.-- (eSplatter.com)
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