El Arte De Morir

Year: 2000 Directed by: Álvaro Fernández Armero Cast: Fele Martinez (Tuno Negro, Darkness)  María Esteve   Gustavo Salmerón (99.9)  Adría Collado (Evita)

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 When a couple of friends drive out to a house in the forest to have some fun,
it ended in misery. Now, four years later, someone seems to be taking revenge
for what they did that night.

 First time I watched this movie I hated it, absolutely despised it, but now,
about a year later, I really enjoyed it. I think the first time I watched it,
I wasn't paying attention enough to the movie, which ended in me not understanding
anything of the movie since it has a few twists. Also, last time I watched this
movie, I watched it English dubbed and this is terribly dubbed. While this time
I watched it in Spanish language with English subtitles, I think that helped
a lot. The plot is quite original for being a slasher, bringing a supernatural
feel to it. Like I've said before, Spain makes great horrormovies, still, this
is far from as good as the brilliant slasher School Killer.

The acting in this movie is good, that is, as long as you don't watch the dubbed
version, which takes a lot of feelings away in my opinion. The directing is pure
perfection. Best directing in a slashermovie ever I would have to say, there are
many interesting angles and at the subway scene it shakes just a little to make
us really feel that we are on a subway train, or whatever those things are called,
I'm Swedish for crying out loud, what do you expect from me.

There are many things in this movie that could have been made better, but that's
just my opinion. For example, I think that they could have thrown in just one
loud noise scare somewhere to make us jump out of our seats. And I don't like
the fact that one guy disappears for most of the movie and then comes back just
for 5 minutes or so. Some of the characters are underdeveloped, even though the
main persons are very nicely developed. One thing that you must think of when
you put this into your VCR or DVD or whatever is that you cannot drop the focus
of the movie for one second as then you might not understand anything that will
happen in the future. This is not one of the best slashers ever made, but it's
a good try so I will give this four of five stars.

 As a slasher, I would expect more from this movie, but since it's also super-
natural, I can't really blame them for not having a higher bodycount or more
gore. A guy gets some huge nails through his stomach or whatever they are, someone
else gets the head jammed into a table until it's blood all over the face. And
then... there's nothing more worth mentioning.

 Probably the best thing about the movie, even though it felt a bit cheap using
the same track for two scenes. A lot of rock and grunge in this movie, also some
drum'n bass, which is always so suitable for a slasher. A track that is played at
a club resembles a lot to the track used in Valentine, when the girls are at a
art exhibition. Of course we get the regular slasher atmosphere soon-something-will-happen
strings and layer aswell, but that's nothing worth going deeper into.

 Another good slasher from Spain, which fails at scaring, but succeeds at entertaining.
If you're going to but this film, you should get the Spanish DVD as it has many extras,
although they are in Spanish. On the DVD we get Trailers, information about the cast,
English, Spanish and French subtitles, English and Spanish sound, chapter selection
and Making Of. If you don't pay enough attention to the movie you will lose the whole
plot, so if it rings, then pause the movie or you might aswell just shut it off.

Review By: AnthroFred