Spanish Horror Films - The Orphanage, Fermat's Room, the Others, Rec 2, the Devil's Backbone, Return of the Blind Dead, Rec, the Nun, Darkness (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Orphanage, Fermat's Room, the Others, Rec 2, the Devil's Backbone, Return of the Blind Dead, Rec, the Nun, Darkness, Pieces, Open Graves, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Los Cronocrimenes, the Blood Spattered Bride, Hell of the Living Dead, Anguish, La Residencia, Who Can Kill a Child?, Fragile, Buried, Web Cam, Hierro, Exorcismus, the New Daughter, Sexykiller, Nightmare City, Los Ojos Azules de La Muneca Rota, Moscow Zero, the Ghost Galleon, Rottweiler, the Nameless, Romasanta, Night of the Seagulls, Licantropo, the Witch Affair. Excerpt: Anguish (Spanish: Angustia ) is a 1987 Spanish produced horror film starring Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Angel Jove and Clara Pastor.Plot In Anguish's complex and intertwined plot, viewers watch an audience watching a movie nested inside Anguish called The Mommy, in which much of the story takes place in yet another theater auditorium, where that audience watches yet another movie (the silent classic, The Lost World ).Anguish's main story concerns Alice Pressman (Zelda Rubinstein), a grasping, overprotective and psychotic woman, and her crazed son, Michael (Michael Lerner) who Alice controls through hypnosis and some never quite explicated paranormal domination. Her son is extremely myopic and progressing toward blindness. Alice believes that collecting eyes will mend her son's vision, and believes her own fantasy that he is a well respected ophthalmologist (he is actually an orderly employed at an ophthalmologist's office). She sends him to collect eyes from living victims, which he does at a local theater showing The Lost World .When the camera pulls back, a second story is revealed. Alice and Michael are the stars of The Mommy being watched by two teenage girls in a movie theater. In that theater, there is a man watchin...