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<B>Aka: </B><I><B>Anguista</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Blood* *Violent* *No Strong Language* *No Nudity * *No Sexual Situations* *Gory*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1986/Color/85 Min./Key Video & Samba PC. Luna Films/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director............Bigas Luna (Jamon, Jamon)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Bigas Luna</B></div> <div> <B>Music...............J.M.Pagan</B></div> <div> <B>Producer..........Pepon Coromina</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Mother............Zelda Rubinstein* (Poltergeist, Poltergeist II, Teen Witch)</B></div> <div> <B>John...............Michael Lerner (Barton Fink, Framed, Maniac Cop 2, Omen IV)</B></div> <div> <B>Polly...............Talia Paul </B></div> <div> <B>Killer..............Angel Jove </B></div> <div> <B>Linda.............Clara Pastor</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: </B><B>This film would have been a seven, if not  for one scene at the very end where the lines of reality and the integrity of the movie within a movie become a bit two intermingled for us. </B><B>As confusing as this strategy may sound, it works almost without a hitch in this decent movie. Still, the acting is excellent - no less than two real actors doesn't hurt (Learner & Rubinstein) - and the film is otherwise put together well and creatively. Michael Learner is great as the son (John). Nice touch that it takes place in the Rex theater.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: An odd mommy and son live in a house full of animals where the son (an orderly) and the mother, who believes her son John is a surgeon, collect human eyes from living donors. When he loses his job as an orderly, his mother announces defiantly,"All the eyes in the city will be ours!" But that part of the movie is only a movie being watched in a theater. In a scene where the mother hypnotizes her son, members of the audience also become hypnotized. The portrayal of the Oedipal mother/son relationship has a particularly bad effect on one of the patrons. As the moviegoers watch John enter a movie theater and go about his collecting, they are paralyzed with fear. When scenes parallel to those in the movie begin to play themselves out in the theater, a bloodbath ensues with all the patrons locked in the theater - just like in the movie they were watching! What follows is a Rocky Horror Picture Show-style scene in which life imitates art down to the number of corpses. Only, its not as much fun for the audience.</B></div> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=27276611&siteid=39400671&bfpage=static_468x60style1_" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=27276611&siteid=39400671&bfpage=static_468x60style1_" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://a408.g.akamai.net/f/408/1284/24h/image.netflix.com/NetFlix_Assets/affiliates/banners/S46860v1" BORDER="0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT=""></A>  </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>