Faszination des Grauens (1996)

Faszination des Grauens: Directed by Alejandro Amenábar. With Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga. While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty…

“u0026quot;Tesisu0026quot; is not only a tantalizing Horror Thriller, but is also an intelligent study of peopleu0026#39;s fascination with death and the imagery of death. Several movies about the topic of snuff films have come up in the last several years (8 MM, for example), this one is definitely the best.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAngela is a young woman who is writing a thesis on violence in the media, in order to get her degree in communication science. Doing research, she gets to know Chema, a fellow student who is obsessed with violent movies. Angela finds a snuff video of a girl tortured to death, Chema recognizes the girl as a former student from their school, who disappeared several years ago. Angela and Chema get themselves into great danger, trying to find out who killed the girl.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThrilling from the first to the last minute, and sometimes quite shocking and disturbing, u0026quot;Tesisu0026quot; is a movie that will definitely not disappoint you if youu0026#39;re looking for suspense. But not only is the movie thrilling and entertaining it also makes some very interesting points in the questions why people are fascinated with death and violence, what the effects of fascination with violence are and how media are dealing with it. Iu0026#39;ll never forget the beginning of the movie, when a suicide occurs in the Madrid subway and Angela, although she doesnu0026#39;t want to be u0026#39;fascinated with violenceu0026#39;, canu0026#39;t help but try to get a look at the dead body.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe acting in the movie is very good, specially Ana Torrent as Angela and Fele Martínez as Chema. A good cinematography supports the suspense and the thrilling atmosphere. Alejandro Amenábar did a great job writing and directing this movie, one of the most thrilling of the 90u0026#39;s. A great horror thriller, researching peopleu0026#39;s fascination with violence and death, u0026#39;Tesisu0026#39; is disturbing, terrifying and intelligent! 8 out of 10!”