The Corpse of Anna Fritz

The Corpse of Anna Fritz
El cadáver de Anna Fritz
Directed by Hèctor j Vicens
Written by Hèctor Hernández Vicens, Isaac P. Creus
Starring Alba Ribas
Cristian Valencia
Bernat Saumell
Albert Carbó
Music by Tolo Prats
Edited by Alberto Bernad
Release dates
  • 15 March 2015 (2015-03-15) (South by Southwest)
Running time
100 minutes
Country Spain
Language Spanish
Box office €36,000

The Corpse of Anna Fritz (Spanish: El cadáver de Anna Fritz) is a 2015 Spanish thriller film directed by Hèctor Hernández Vicens and written by Hèctor Hernández Vicens and Isaac P. Creus. The film premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas on March 2015.[1]

Plot

Pau works as an orderly at a hospital, a job that gives him the opportunity to watch the bodies of young women that are brought to the hospital's morgue. One day he's stunned when the body of Anna Fritz, a beautiful and desirable actress, arrives. Pau cannot resist taking a picture and sending it to one of his friends, Ivan, who quickly arrives at the morgue to view Anna's nude body. Around the same time another friend, Javi, arrives for the same reasons. Ivan soon decides that he wants to have sex with Anna's corpse and begins raping it, prompting Pau to suggest that he go after Ivan. However, during the act of necrophilia Anna suddenly returns to life and opens her eyes, which terrifies Pau.

The men are then faced with two choices. They can either report Anna's revival and face rape charges, as there was no way she could consent to sex, or they can murder her and cover up their crimes. While Pau and Ivan both want to hide their crime, Javi pushes for them to save Anna and take the punishment for what they've done. The three men argue and Ivan unintentionally kills Javi. Without Javi to stop them, Ivan and Pau decide to murder Anna, only for her to end up killing them by tricking them into believing that she is once again dead, then stabbing them both with scissors once their guards are lowered.

Cast

Release

The film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest film festival on 15 March 2015.[2] It later released in Spain in October of the same year, where it made €36,000 at the box office and was viewed an estimated 9,000 times.[3] In February 2016 Vicens discovered that his film was popular in the Philippines, where it was illegally viewed or downloaded between 5 and 7 million times via outlets such as Facebook and YouTube.[3] This prompted the film crew to seek out legal counsel in an attempt to stop the legal distribution and they have managed to get an upload of the film deleted from YouTube.[2] Due to the film's popularity overseas the film's crew and producers are seeking to launch an advertising and screening campaign in the Philippines.[3]

Reception

We Got This Covered gave the film a mostly favorable review, writing that it was "not a perfect thriller – but it’s an aptly paced ride that doesn’t shy away from divisive boundaries."[4] The International Business Times wrote a mixed review, praising elements of the movie such as its lighting while also stating that they felt that it would've worked better as a short film.[5]

See also

References

  1. "The Corpse of Anna Fritz". SXSW Schedule 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  2. 1 2 "Spanish necrophilia movie is surprise hit in the Philippines". The Local. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  3. 1 2 3 "El extraño caso de la película española sobre necrofilia que triunfa en Filipinas". El diario. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  4. "The Corpse Of Anna Fritz Review [SXSW 2015]". We Got This Covered. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  5. "'The Corpse Of Anna Fritz': Necrophilia Movie Pushes The Horror Boundaries At SXSW". International Business Times. Retrieved 2016-02-17.

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