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One of my all time favorites.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is one of those films that has you wanting to yell at the characters on screen starting about 20 minutes in: "Go to the police! Why don't you go to the police?" They wade into some deep crap and have no reason NOT to go to the police, but hey! Why don't they just try to solve the big mystery of the snuff film and the missing girls by themselves (even though the have enough evidence to give to the police to have the thing wrapped up in probably a day)? Only ninety minutes in, after another death and more threats on their lives, do they even mention the possibility of maybe, you know, going to the police. Of course they never do, and seem completely idiotic for that. The actors are very good, especially Ana Torrent, Fele Martinez, Xabier Elorriaga, and Miguel Picazo, maybe too good for such a lame script. Ana Torrent especially seems far too intelligent to be acting as stupid as she (or her character) does for 121 minutes. I mean I get that horror films have characters doing stupid things, like NOT GOING TO THE POLICE when they should, but this one seems especially bad in that regard. It's not even particularly stylish which sometimes covers for bad script problems. The director would do far better in his later films.

I have only one thing to say about the movie "Thesis" (1996): yuck! Directed by the same man who did "Open Your Eyes" (1997), "Thesis" deals with a female college student studying violence in film. She makes friends with a misfit who has a video collection of porn and ultra-violence. By a bizarre chance, she encounters a snuff film. She and the misfit realize that the victim is a girl from campus who disappeared two years ago. They begin to theorize that someone on campus is doing the killings. But who? And now, it seems, the killer(s) are after her . . .While I must admit the film scared me, the subject matter was just too gross. Movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III" (which I also watched today) I find at best humorous, at worst boring. But I always know that they're fakes: from the moment they're first conceived by some drunken screenwriter looking for his big break, they're fakes. And even though, of course, "Thesis" is fake, the idea behind it is that REAL people would REALLY torture and kill on screen for the enjoyment of other REAL people. So, again: yuck!

Another brilliant film by the director who brought us such others as 'the sea inside, with the brilliant directing and story again from one of his films, using his own name in the film, (floppy disk) entries and other really advanced techniques like the mirror scene.Brilliant acting by all of the cast and of course by Eduardo Noriega. Well worth all of its awards especially its Goya awards, and one of the truly great films by a great director, Amenabar always excites and draws a truly suspenseful and meaningful plot to the table with carefully selected dialogue and choices of shots, one for all to see, and a clear 8/10.

Ángela is a university student who decides to base her thesis on the effects of violent images on society. She asks her professor Figueroa to see if he can help with getting her access to the university's film library which contains all kinds of violent images. Meanwhile Angela learns that there is a fellow student, Chema who is big into such films and so she asks him to show her his collection, suspicious at first he declines, but eventually gives in. Angela is shocked that he has shelves of porn of all description and films containing scenes of actual deaths. Figueroa meanwhile gets access to the film library, but aware there is another person there and embarrassed at being caught looking for such films, he hides there, but discovers a hidden stash of video tapes, taking one he immediately returns to a screening theatre, to watch it, where he dies of a heart attack brought on by shock. Angela finds him there, takes he tape and scared to watch it alone brings it to Chema, he immediately recognizes it as a real snuff film, but not only that he recognizes the girl, a former student missing these last two years. Together they realize there must be a killer or killers within the university making these films and try and investigate further, but soon realize they are in grave danger from unknown enemies. Riveting thriller, that reaches into some very dark areas of society, its intelligently made and handles the touchy subject with class and never feels like an exploitation film. Amenebar creates an atmosphere of tension, dread and foreboding, where the foes are completely unknown to both the characters and the viewers and where everyone becomes a suspect. Amenebar really does toy with the viewer especially in the last quarter of the film where I changed my mind on the killer numerous times, in this a very accomplished debut feature.