H6: Diario de un asesino (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.8/10   

Director:

Martín Garrido Barón

Guionista:

Martín Garrido (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

7 julio 2006 (Spain)

Género:

Horror | Suspenso

Plot:

Antonio Frau is a formerly convicted killer who, while having an active sex life with his buxom wife Francisca who also cheats on him with her older doctor, becomes a serial killer/rapist of women.

Plot Keywords:

Buxom | Serial Killer | Torture | Serial Rapist | Bloody Violence

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Clean towels! We need clean towels, room 6.

Reparto

Fernando Acaso	...	Antonio Frau
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Ángel Alarcón	...	Francisca's Father
Raquel Arenas	...	Rosa
Ruperto Ares	...	Pablo
María José Bausá	...	Francisca
Ramón Del Pomar	...	Curro
Miquel Fernandez	...	Antonio Frau
Martín Garrido	...	Miguel Oliver
Antonio Mayans	...	Dr. Planas
Sonia Moreno	...	Tina
Xènia Reguant	...	Marisa
Mark San Juan	...	Peralta
Alejo Sauras	...	Cristóbal
Elena Seguí	...	Soledad Mendez
Miquel Sitjar	...	Flores

También conocida como:

H6: Diary of a Serial Killer (USA) (DVD title)

Duración:

Spain:92 min

País:

Spain

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Color

Clasificación:

Germany:18 (SPIO/JK) | USA:Not Rated

Compañía:

Kanzaman

Trivialidades:

Selected for the San Sebastian Horror & Fantasy festival 2005

Clean towels! We need clean towels, room 6.

With all the promising reviews warning about the morbidity & intense shock-value of this film, and especially with knowing what formed basic inspiration for the story , I can't help admitting I was a little disappointed after my viewing of "H6: Diary of a Serial Killer". Sure this Spanish effort is remotely gruesome and confronting, but not nearly as much as I expected (or hoped) and there are far more dull moments than shocking ones. As for the inspiration, the script (and even the main character Antonio Frau himself) often refers to Henri Landru. Landru was a French serial killer who murdered nearly a dozen of women during the years of World War one and carefully noted down his grim actions in a diary that eventually proved his guilt. Landru selected his victims randomly and killed without apparent motives, and maybe the character of Antonio Frau could have used a bit more sense of nihilism like that as well. His seemingly forced motives for killing young girls are (partly) what makes the film so implausible. Once freed from jail, where he did 15 years for murdering his girlfriend when he was a teenager, Antonio inherits an old and ramshackle motel in the middle of a prostitute-infested neighborhood. With his new wife working night shifts at the hospital, Antonio has plenty of free time to fulfill his new mission in life, namely the purification of sinners. He lures drug-addicted prostitutes to his motel and locks them up in room 6, where he rapes, humiliates and tortures them (talk about 'cleansing') before practicing his chainsaw dismembering skills on their scarcely dressed bodies. Antonio's modus operandi and motivations don't make the least bit of sense, but they do result in several nauseating and blood-soaked sequences. Totally gratuitous footage, of course, but suitably sadistic if you're interested in this type of cinema. But, like I mentioned before already, the film badly suffers from too many tedious moments as well. Antonio Frau really talks too much and insists on narrating all the things he writes down in his precious diary. Near the end of the movie and totally out of the blue, the script suddenly turns ambitious and actually attempts to make us believe the protagonist is a criminal mastermind, even more intelligent than the Jigsaw Killer or even Hannibal Lector. Yeah right. "H6: Diary of a Serial Killer" is nicely shot and benefices from macabre settings and a thoroughly grim ambiance. Fernando Acaso is fairly convincing as the twisted killer (at least during the first half of the film), Mariá José Bausá is bewitching as his voluptuous wife and Antonio Mayans (a Jess Franco regular!) makes a brief appearance as her lover. "H6" isn't nearly as sick and repulsive as some people claim, but nonetheless an interesting movie for Euro-horror fanatics to check out.