Tésis (Thesis)
Tésis is a Spanish film written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar (co-written by Mateo Gil). This film features Ángela (Ana Torrent) as a film student at Madrid's Universidad Complutense (I've totally been there, by the way!). Ángela is writing her thesis on violence in film and is searching all over the university for examples of violence on film and discussions of the topic. She searches the library's massive audio-visual collection and even speaks with other classmates. This is how she meets her cohort in investigation throughout the course of the film, Chema.
This is my "partner in crime"? He looks like a doped up Stephen King!
Chema (Fele Martínez) will end up helping Ángela more than she could have imagined. He has the largest collection of violent and pornographic films of any of the film students and even the library. He offers to let her view his collection, and she takes him up on his offer. Surprisingly, this is one horror film which sticks to its plot - perhaps this is why I like it so much. His inviting her over is not an attempt to have sex with her, he doesn't have some horror dungeon set up in his apartment, and he is really just another film student who is rather introverted and want to help out.
Ángela's professor goes into the library himself, and comes upon a film which he takes to view in a classroom. As he watches the film, Professor Figueroa dies, we assume from a heart attack. Ángela discovers her professor dead with the projector on, and takes the film that he was watching and leaves. (Apparently she is not too concerned about calling an ambulance or the police, just about that movie! It must be powerful!) What Ángela discovers, er, realizes is that she is now in possession of a snuff film.
That's not the snuff film... that's sexy Eduardo Noriega. Notice her caressing his lip... *sigh* Oh yeah, she also suspects him as the killer.
In the snuff film, a young woman is seen tied to a chair. Her name is Vanessa, and she is a student who had disappeared from the University (No one "goes missing" in my blog... you can't GO missing, there is no place called Missing and it's not an action you can perform. GAH! OK. I'm done.) A figure, who appears to be male, is then seen torturing and killing her. Ángela decides to investigate, like any good horror movie protagonist, and see if she can find out who is behind the crime. She suspects a classmate of the young woman who died, Bosco Herranz (played by the lovely Eduardo Noriega, later made famous by another Amenábar movie, Abre los ojos an excellent film which is the original to Tom Cruise's crappy Vanilla Sky).
Ángela then waffles back and forth between believing the Bosco is the killer and believing him innocent and handsome. Indeed, Chema's odd behavior does not help the situation, as she begins to suspect him of the crime. She runs from Chema. She runs from Bosco. She does not who she can trust (and I am not going to tell you who it is, because this is truly a horror movie worth watching).
Damn. Now I'm the victim. And who is that? Are you Chema? Are you Bosco? And are you getting my good side?
As you can tell by this last photo, Ángela is caught by the killer. Indeed, she is the next in line for her own snuff film. Her encounter with the killer is filmed. Yeah, I'll give you this - the killer IS male. You're welcome. But who is it? And does Ángela die, or does she get away? That's for you to find out!
Go forth in fear!
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