by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Zelda Rubinstein, the diminuitive "house exorciser" from Poltergeist, heads the cast of Anguish. The villain is a copycat loonie whose crimes are inspired by the movies. A series of murders occur, eerily similar to those committed by the heavy in a popular film. The gimmick: the killings take place in a crowded movie theatre, while the film in question is playing. It sounds ludicrous, but Anguish is very persuasively assembled by writer/director Bigas Luna.
characteristics
- Movie-within-a-movie
- Hypnotism
- Hypnotist
- Theater
- Murder
- Hypnosis
- Theatre
- Copy-cat
- Audience
- Dementia
- Eye
- Demented
- Disorientation
- Serial-killer
- Obsession
