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Truly Dreadful Film

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

I was pleasantly surprised while watching this, finding it highly engaging. For a low budget movie, it is well-acted, well-scripted, and well shot! My only complaint is that, to me, it ran on a bit long towards the end. Pacing was good up to that point, but towards the end it felt redundant and labored. But that's a minor point on an overall fun film. Very glad to have found this gem!

The core concept of this film is watching a slasher movie about people in a theater... who are watching a slasher movie themselves. The main idea certainly has merits and a lot of potential but alas, writer and director Bigas Luna never achieves it.The first slasher (the movie within the movie) has occult and psychedelic overtones but is rather silly. It does feature the only two actors worthy of the title in Lerner and Rubinstein. The second film is uninspired at best and features awful acting all around. Both suffer from drawn out scenes that go absolutely nowhere.The most excitement regarding Anguish is when you first discover you are watching a movie within a movie and then, you wait for something clever to happen... except it never does. Poorly written, shot, acted and edited, Anguish will mostly be remembered as a cool idea that may have been ahead of its time.

This movie is basically two for the price of one. It's a movie within a movie and it works out great and entertaining.No way that this is a brilliant movie but the way it got constructed still make this a quite good one and an original as well. The story evolved around a group of people watching an horror-flick in a cinema, that is about a psychopathic killer, who is under the heavy influence of his mother, when it turns out that there is a killer on the loose in the cinema as well. The events of the movie within the movie and the events within the cinema mirror each other, which really gives you the feeling that you're watching two movies at the same time. The time spend between the two story lines of the different movies is divided equally, so you feel attached and drawn toward both stories. It's this approach and the execution of it that makes "Angustia" a fun and original watch.You are basically having two slashers in this movie, the one even more gory and bloody than the other. Fans of the genre will therefore have plenty to enjoy with this one. The movie perhaps feels more like a Giallo in its style than a typical horror movie really and that's not a bad thing of course.It's a Spanish movie but yet it's done entirely in English. It had a Spanish director and some of the actors were Spanish as well but with the English there were obviously aiming toward an international market. And why not with a concept such as this one. This movie must have been great to watch in a packed cinema. It would had made you look over your shoulder once or twice for sure.But of course there also are some American actors to make this movie attractive for the international public. It was great fun to see Zelda Rubinstein in this. She was a real perfect actress for the genre and always played this sort of roles very well. I also really liked Michael Lerner as the eye collecting killer. He's not a big name but a well known face within the industry.A great fun and original movie!8/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

I'm not sure why this 1980s horror film is so overlooked. It is a very unique film, if a bit gimmicky. It stars Tangina (wait, I mean, Zelda Rubenstein, of course!) as a psycho-mommy whose relationship is a bit too tight with her son. In fact, she hypnotizes him on a nightly basis and has him going out about town, gouging out people's eyeballs for her personal collection! Just when you think the story couldn't get more bizarre, it does. This is definitely for fans of films about messed-up mother/son relationships. For those who can't stomach Tangina, you still might get a kick out of this truly original 80s horror flick. It's been compared to "Demons," but such a comparison is superficial. Beware, most reviews on this one feature major plot spoilers!