spencergrande6
The body of a famous and beautiful movie star is brought to a local morgue where some young guys have their fun with it. How could they not? She's once in a lifetime. They get coked and liquored up and have a good time with her. Then the corpse wakes up. Is she a zombie? A metaphor for their guilt? Actually alive? A surreal combination of all those? It would have been cooler if it was.Nope, she's alive and there's no pretension whatsoever about it. Any theme is lost in this straight laser-focused twist on the kidnapped young woman thriller genre. It's a good twist for the genre, but other than that offers nothing new or of any substance to it.Oh, and you never find out why anyone thought she was dead in the first place - it's completely inexplicable.
lipjam
I watched this based on the good reviews. The acting isn't bad nor is the production. The music score is quite good also. However, the story line is so preposterous and filled with holes as to beggar belief. Even if you can get over the opening sequence: This actress who is so famous and adored is simply abandoned in the charge of a testosterone charged young man who posts photos of her and has has his friends visit the hospital without any suspicion or checks. It doesn't get any better. It is predictable and a little tedious at times. The plot twists for me were not really twists as sweeping bends you can see coming a mile off. The ending just takes the biscuit. I did not see that coming but it is so stupid that it could only be made up on the spot. I suppose if you're twelve and want to see a naked dead lady then knock yourself out. If you want a thriller with a believable story line then I doubt this will satisfy. Not really worth the one hour and four minutes of your life. If you still want to see it prepare to suspend disbelief (like leave it outside the front door) and you may not be disappointed but I would recommend you opt for something a little less puerile.
James Lister
This film has a shock factor due to the subject matter. The characters aren't bad, but with the one setting and only few characters they do feel a little one dimensional at times. Alba Ribas (Anna Fritz) steals the show for me. But the other actors do a good enough job too. The story is non-existent. Although I get what Isaac P. Creus is trying to convey. But it doesn't quite work for my taste. However, the payoff is pretty satisfying after what they did to her. I however cannot recommend this film as I think it doesn't really offer anything, but a shock value which is over after a couple of minutes.
sol-
Put in charge of a female celebrity's dead body, a young morgue attendant boasts to his friends who insist in seeing the dead woman naked, and things only become more twisted as one of the friends expresses an interest in necrophilia in this independent thriller from Spain. From such a plot description alone, 'El Cadáver de Anna Fritz' might sound like a film done in incredibly bad taste, but it is rarely exploitative (only the briefest glimpses of the nude corpse are seen) and a sudden twist after eighteen minutes pulls the film in a decidedly different direction with the friends forced to make some tough moral decisions. None of the actors playing the three friends are particularly remarkable, but there are some interesting shifts in personality; most notably, the morgue attendant goes from reluctantly letting his friends in, afraid of losing his job, to giddily playing practical jokes on them. That said, Bernat Samuell has a bit of a bland character - he is pretty much the moral compass of the group throughout, but co-stars Christian Valencia and Albert Carbó undergo enough shifts in personality to keep things fresh. The plot also requires some suspension of disbelief (medically speaking in particular) but it is an engaging film through and through if one does not think about the probability of it too much. Several ideas raised by the film are fascinating, including celebrity worship and the ability of the human survival instinct to overtake rationality. Clocking in at only just over an hour in length too, the film is briskly paced and never outstays its welcome.
AD
