Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Cannibal Man (La Semana Del Asesino)

Released Year: 1972
Directed by Eloy De La Iglesia

Casted by:
Vicente Parra as Marcos
Eusebio Poncela as Nestor
Emma Cohen as Paula
Story:
Marcos is a butcher, he went out with his girlfriend, Paula and try to make out in a taxi. The taxi driver feel annoying and shoo them out of the car. Not feeling enough, the taxi driver scold them and slapped Paula on her face. To protect his girlfriend, Marcos hit the taxi driver with rocks.

Nestor is living on the next tall building and always look at Marcos with binocular. The next day Marcos realize he accidentally killed the taxi driver last night on the newspaper. Paula advise him to surrender himself after they have sex but Marcos reject and killed Paula. After this, Marcos killed another friend and 2 other girls who have sex with him.

Marcos and Nestor is having some friendship bond and Nestor told him that he saw what happened in all the cases. Marcos try to kill Nestor but find himself couldn't do it. In the Marcos just surrender himself.
L² Scored: 2.5/10

L² Comment:
The english title for this film is kinda misunderstanding as Marcos is not eating any of the human flesh but just killing. The showering scene of Marcos and Nester is kinda gay, don't know why they put this in. Well, don't really fancy this film, just find it ok.

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