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A handsome man with no face?, 20 June 2005

Author: ingridtl from Mexico

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This is a wonderful film of suspense, is about a detective that is obsessed to catch a murderer of women in the city of Mexico. This detective had bad dreams in which he sees women with no face, dancing and spelling bad words about him, but he thinks the dreams are associate with his obsession for catch the killer. Consulting a friend, who is psychiatrist, he tries to found the cause of his nightmares and his obsession about the red color into them; this is the reference of the title "A man with no face". The end is a surprise. The writer had the opportunity to consult a very famous psychiatrist of the city of Mexico to endow his work of more credibility.

An innovative and intelligent thriller, 8 December 2011

Author: Chris Cuervo from Mexico

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A Mexican psycho-killer film before psycho-killer era... there is a man (maybe a killer) obsessed with his mother, like Psycho (1960)... there is a masked killer hunting women, like those filmed by Mario Bava's giallo in 1960s... but this is a 1950 movie. The script make it a very interesting and tense movie, also Jorge Stahl's cinematography works fine, with some touches of expressionism in the set design and the classical light/shadow use of the film-noir. Arturo De Córdova did a great job, playing a character he did tenths of times, a refined man with a dark side that eventually arise and possesses him completely. Even when Juan Bustillo Oro is barely remembered, this film is a proof of how unfaithful is that poor attention to his work in modern decades.

Blank face of the killer., 25 January 2011

Author: HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby, Poland

A blank faced killer is preying for young women.A detective wants to catch him.He has nightmare visions about elusive stalker.Very dream-like and atmospheric horror movie from Mexico with extremely moody prologue.The funeral procession with coffins,blank face of the mysterious figure in the fog and a lone detective sitting on the bench.My copy of "El Hombre Sin Rostro" is in Spanish,so most of the plot went beyond me.The dream sequences are genuinely spooky and creative,the acting is spot-on and the cinematography is elegant.I wish I could see "El Hombre Sin Rostro" with English subtitles.But maybe I should stop being lazy and finally learn Spanish.7 blank faces out of 10.

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