Anguish (1987) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Angustia
Year
1987
Running time
91 min.
Country
Spain
Director
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Cast
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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
1988: Sant Jordi Awards: Best Spanish Picture.
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