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Anguish
(1987)
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Title: Anguish (1987)
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Cast
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Mother
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| Michael Lerner | ... |
John
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Talia Paul | ... |
Patty
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Àngel Jové | ... |
Killer
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Clara Pastor | ... |
Linda
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Isabel García Lorca | ... |
Caroline
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Nat Baker | ... |
Teaching Doctor - Old Movie
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Edward Ledden | ... |
Doctor - Old Movie
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Gustavo Gili | ... |
Student 1 - Old Movie
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Antonio Regueiro | ... |
Student 2 - Old Movie
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Joaquín Ribas | ... |
Student 3 - Old Movie
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Janet Porter | ... |
Laboratory Nurse - Old Movie
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Patrice Manget | ... |
Nurse at Clinic - Old Movie
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Merche Gascón | ... |
Nurse at Clinic - Old Movie
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Jose M. Chucarro | ... |
Caroline's Boyfriend - Old Movie
(as Jose M.ª Chucarro)
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A film-within-a-film thriller about two teen girls among a small group of people whom are terrorized in a movie theater by a killer while watching a horror film about a murderous optometrist who stalks his victims in a movie theater in the film. Written by matt-282
Plot Keywords:
eyeball | film within a film | ophthalmologist | stabbed multiple times | psychopath |Taglines:
The eyes of the city are mine.Parents Guide:
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Country:
SpainLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
8 January 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Anguish See more »Box Office
Gross:
$228,789 (USA)Company Credits
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Runtime:
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Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Performed by Cecil Milner
Published by KPM Music Library
(uncredited)
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Quotes
Alice Pressman, the Mother: [toying fondly with a snail] What are you looking at with those little eyes?See more »
Crazy Credits
When the film ends, we suddenly see the credits scrolling up on a completely different movie screen, together with another completely different cinema audience of onlookers observing it before getting up and leaving one by one until the final onlookers stand up and walks to the left with the screen going black as he/she does so (implying that the real storyline was also yet another film within film). See more »Soundtracks
"Rescue"Performed by Cecil Milner
Published by KPM Music Library
(uncredited)
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This creepy motion picture ingeniously realized exploring the hypnotic effects of cinema talks about a timid eye clinic intern (Michael Lerner, Omen 4) under the sway of his psychic and authoritarian mother (Zelda Rubinstein, Poltergeister). Hypnotized by swirling spirals and screechy bursts of gleaming wails, the ominous son packs up his surgical tool set and goes out a rampage . Our hapless soon-to-be victims arrive for a view a horror flick only to watch the gore unfold in the audience as well as on screen in which are showing the silent film titled ¨The lost world¨ and ¨ The mummy¨ . As a group of viewers are killed in the form of a screening of a horror movie that brings naturalism to life. As the terror picture shown to the audience gets more and more violent. The spectators (Talia Paul, Clara Pastor) see Lerner carving eyes on screen while a psycho-killer (Angel Jove) obsessed with the movie unleashes his own criminal spree on the unsuspecting spectators and he attacks anyone who crosses her way and soon the place is filled with people killed. The survivors trapped in the theater must fend off attacks of the murderers. At the ending the remaining public start the desperate battle for their lives and eventually, the theatre turns a walled-in trap. Soon it becomes clear that the parallel arguments gather together in deadly synchronization.
The picture is full of suspense,thrills, mystery, and lots of blood and gore .This slick gore-feast is a triumph of style over movie logic. It's packed with overwhelming body count, excessive gore, grotesque killing, and rivers of red blood. This is one of the most original utilization of the movie-within-a-movie with terror argument, such as formerly made Lambert Bava in ¨Demons¨(1985). The picture is smartly designed ,stylishly photographed filming in Barcelona by Civit and with a suspenseful musical score by Pagan . Bigas Luna delivers the terror movie goods with sense of style. He's an expert on murky atmosphere such as proved in ¨Caniche¨, ¨Bilbao¨ and ¨Reborn¨. The picture will appeal to horror buffs and Bigas Luna fans.