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Anguish

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Original title

Angustia

Year

1987

Running time

91 min.

Country

Spain

Director

Bigas Luna

Screenwriter

Bigas Luna

Cast

Music

José Manuel Pagán

Cinematography

Josep M. Civit

Producer

Luna Films, Samba P.C

Genre

Horror | Film In Film. Cult Movie

Synopsis

John, a loutish optometrist orderly, louses up on the job and is dismissed. His odd, little mother, using a form of hypnosis, sends him out on a killing spree, starting with Caroline, the woman who caused his dismissal. But this is all just a movie titled "The Mommy" being shown to a small matinee crowd at a seedy movie theater in Los Angeles. As it happens, two teenage girls in the audience, the strong-willed Linda and the squeamish Patty, discover that one of the patrons sitting near them is a real maniac. In the old movie, when the scalpel-weilding John enters a movie theater and beings killing the patrons and theater employees one by one, and removing their eyeballs for his mother's collection, the killer in the audience, armed with a silenced .38 pistol, begins killing the patrons and employees of the theater in a manner which parallels the action on the movie screen.

Awards: 1987: Goya Awars: Best Special Effects

1988: Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival: Special Mention. 2 nominations

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Anguish

1987

Bigas Luna

6.3

(3,754)