Satanás (2007)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Andrés Baiz

Writers:

Andrés Baiz (writer)
Mario Mendoza (novel)

Release Date:

1 June 2007 (Colombia)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Awards:

4 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Damián Alcázar	...	Eliseo
Blas Jaramillo	...	Ernesto - the priest
Marcela Mar	...	Paola
Marcela Valencia	...	Alicia - The killer
Isabel Gaona	...	Irene - priest's lover
Martina García	...	Natalia
Teresa Gutiérrez	...	Eliseo's mother
Andrés Parra	...	Pablo
Diego Vásquez	...	Alberto
Vicky Hernández	...	Eliseo's neighbor
Clara Samper	...	Lucía - the librarian
Patricia Castañeda	...	Valeria - prostitute 2
María Cecilia Sánchez	...	Young woman in library
Hernán Méndez	...	Mario - the chess player
Héctor García	...	Taxi driver

Also Known As:

Satan (International: English title) (informal literal title)
Satanás - Profile of a Killer (Australia)
Satanas (Australia) (cable TV title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence including a brutal rape, sexuality, nudity and language.

Country:

Colombia | Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:R | Australia:R (2008) | Mexico:C | USA:R | Peru:18

Company:

Proyecto Tucan

Trivia:

The name of the killer in the real life and in the book was Campo Elías Delgado, named in the movie as Eliseo.

This film could be better!!!

Why I say this film could be better??? Well... it's based on a book: "Satanas" by Mario Mendoza... but the book it's based in one of the worst spree killing ever. Before Columbine, in 1987 there was a man called Campoelías Delgado who entered in a restaurant and kill the customers at the tables. The man was a former soldier in the Korea War, mentally ill and a tickin' bomb. Before kill the people in that restaurant, he burned his mother and shoot the neighbors in the building he lived... nobody knows if he kills himself with a shot in the head or died in the crossfire with the police... but it's a raw good story for a movie. But, I don't know... I haven't read the book, but the movie focuses in other minor characters whom don't worth it. The plot is in the head of Eliseo (played by the great actor Damian Alcazar, who is the only Mexican actor who can talk without that ugly accent)and his madness... I don't care about an illegitimate relationship between a priest and his fellow parishioner girl or the vengeance for a rape. It would be more like it if the movie could show HOW and WHY Eliseo hit the rock bottom.