Atroz

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Movie
German title Atroz
Original title Atroz
Country of production Mexico
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2015
length 75 minutes
Rod
Director Lex Ortega
script Lex Ortega,
Sergio Tello
production Abigail Bonilla
camera Luis García
cut Elena Morales ,
Lex Ortega,
Mario Ivan Ponton
occupation

Atroz is a Mexican splatter film by Lex Ortega from 2015. The independent film plays with elements of snuff film and uses motifs from found footage and torture porn .

action

Commissioner Juárez is called in a fatal car accident. The two drivers Goyo and Gordo were arrested. Juárez does not wait for forensics and finds a video from the glove compartment of the car. The video shows how the two drivers brutally torture a transvestite to death. Juárez has the two murderers tortured to find out the location of the crime.

At the scene of the crime, the officers discover one with another murder and a video cassette showing Goyo's youth. Goyo was abused and humiliated by his parents when they found out that Goyo was gay. Together with his sister Daniela he kills his parents. But after the murder, he tries to kill his sister too.

Juárez first reveals to Goyo that his partner Gordo has committed suicide. Then he explains that the transvestite was his brother and also that Daniela is not dead at all. He leads her into the interrogation room and opens her handcuffs.

background

Parts of the film were crowdfunded and had a budget of around US $ 7,000. The well-known Italian director Ruggero Deodato appeared as a supporter and presented the film. The finished film was distributed by Unearthed Films under the name Atrocious on DVD and Blu-Ray, the German-language version came as a media book on the Dutch label Extreme.

The film is based on a short film from 2009. This is basically the transvestite murder in the film and has been digitally edited to do justice to the found footage character. The other two murders can also be seen as detached episodes.

criticism

Due to the snuff and episode film elements, the film is reminiscent of similar hard torture porn films such as A Serbian Film and the Guinea Pig film series as well as episode films such as The ABCs of Death and Mexico Barbaro . As with similar horror films, the film was only reviewed by genre sites and magazines, with the harsh splatter scenes making it impossible for mainstream audiences to access it. The reviews vary from a strong film for genre fans to a difficult film in which violence is used for its own sake to a "silly brutal comic".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Horror Releases: Atroz (Atrocious) (2016) - Reviewed. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Atroz in the online movie database . Retrieved February 11, 2020
  3. ↑ Christopher Zabel: Atroz Blu-ray Review. Retrieved February 11, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ a b Film Review: Atroz (Atrocious) (2015). In: HNN | Horror News.net. October 5, 2016, Retrieved February 11, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Morbido 2015 Review: Is ATROZ This Year's Most Notorious Horror Film? November 1, 2015, accessed February 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Mick: Review: ATROZ (2015). In: Horror Films & Thrillers. Retrieved on February 11, 2020 (German).