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Director:
Eloy de la Iglesia
Writers:
Eloy de la Iglesia (story)
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Release Date:
June 1973 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
When the butcher goes berserk....
Plot:
A young man, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Forgotten cult classics #3 more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Vicente Parra ... Marcos
Emma Cohen ... Paula
Eusebio Poncela ... Néstor
Charly Bravo ... Esteban
Fernando Sánchez Polack ... Señor Ambrosio (as Fernando Sanchez Polak)
Lola Herrera ... Carmen
Goyo Lebrero ... Taxista
Vicky Lagos ... Rosa
Ismael Merlo ... Jefe de personal
Rafael Hernández ... Agustín
José Franco ... Tendero
Valentín Tornos
Antonio Orengo ... Camarero
Antonio Corencia ... Obrero burlón
Antonio del Real ... Obrero burlón (as Antonio Fernandez del Real)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Apartment on the 13th Floor (USA) (dubbed version)
The Cannibal Man (International: English title)
Week of the Killer
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Runtime:
UK:98 min | Spain:90 min
Country:
Spain
Language:
Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Was the first movie to use the "vomit-bag" gimmick. Theatres offered free barf bags with the tickets to increase the sales of this 'violent' film. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Hélas pour moi (1993) more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Forgotten cult classics #3, 8 July 2001
Author: Daywalker from Germany

The alternative title "Cannibal Man" is very misleading, because this film is not a gory splatterfest about the sick mind of a serial killer, it is more a drama about a man whose life falls apart aroused by a chain reaction of unhappy circumstances. You might compare this film to similar movies like "Henry" for example, but this one is more a portrait of the situation in the early 70s when the dictatorship of Franco ruled the Spanish nation. "La semana del asesino" is full of macabre minor details and polished dialogue sequences. Not like the typical horror mass productions, more an unusual outsider cinema...

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