Tesis - The Snuff Movie

Movie
German title	Tesis - The Snuff Movie
Original title	Tesis
Country of production	Spain
original language	Spanish
Publishing year	1995
length	125 minutes
Age rating	FSK / JMK 16
Rod
Director	Alejandro Amenábar
script	Alejandro Amenábar Mateo Gil
production	José Luis Cuerda
music	Alejandro Amenábar Mariano Marín
camera	Hans Burmann
cut	María Elena Sáinz de Rozas
occupation
Ana Torrent : Angela Marquez Fele Martínez : Chema Eduardo Noriega : Bosco Herranz Xaver Elorriaga : Castro Miguel Picazo : Figueroa Nieves Herranz : Sena Rosa Campillo : Yolanda

Tesis - The Snuff Film (also known under the title Tesis - Fascination of Horror ) is a Spanish feature film from 1995. The film is the first feature-length film by the director Alejandro Amenábar .

action

Angela is a student at the film school and wants to write her master's thesis on the subject of violence in film . While researching her topic, she finds video recordings of murders of fellow students in the university's archive. Through the videos she is confronted with the phenomenon of so-called snuff films . In her further research, she gets the help of her fellow student Chema, who is a die-hard splatter fan . The horror of the films is slowly being carried over to Angela's real life. When Angela falls in love with the student Bosco, she only realizes late that Bosco is the killer in the background of the snuff films from the university's archives and falls into the clutches of the psychopath herself.

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film : “In the form of an exciting, but also nerve-racking genre film, the production deals with a dehumanized world that is dominated by sheer greed for sensation. The horror is not represented as a demonic fascination, but in all its repulsive facets. A shocking film, despite the relatively reserved images. "

• Prisma Online: “Alejandro Amenábar, who was only 23 when the film was made, made a sensational debut film that reflects the interaction between violence in the media and voyeurism . He illustrated the fear and fascination of media violence in the style of a sophisticated genre thriller. "

Awards

• At the Goya Awards in 1997 , the film received seven awards, including the Best Film of the Year category. Amenábar was invited with his film to the Berlinale 1996 , where the film was presented to a German audience for the first time within the Panorama section.
• Goya 1997
  • Best movie
  • Best Director ( Alejandro Amenábar )
  • Best Actress ( Ana Torrent ) nomination
  • Best Young Actor ( Fele Martínez )
  • Best Original Screenplay ( Alejandro Amenábar )
  • Best Producer ( Emiliano Otegui )
  • Best Editing ( María Elena Sáinz de Rozas )
  • Best note ( Daniel Goldstein , Ricardo Steimberg and Alfonso Pino )

Web links

• Tesis - The snuff film in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website (Spanish, English)
• Tesis - The Snuff Movie atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tesis - The Snuff Movie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .