Dorathen Better Late Then Never

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Leofwine_draca Low budget serial killer films repulse me, I can't deny it. When I watch films like this, or THE LAST HORROR MOVIE, I can't help but be offended by the constant degradation of women. The director asks you to wallow in filth and depravity and what do you get out of it? A film like H6: DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER is hardly disturbing, it's just cheap and sleazy, and rather pointless at the end of the day.Comparisons have been made between this and HOSTEL, but H6 has nothing of the suspenseful storyline of that film. It's been described as the Spanish answer to American PSYCHO, but it misses that film's black comedy and assured performances. There are superficial similarities to HENRY: PORTAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, but that was a masterpiece of quiet realism and mind-numbing brutality by comparison. What we get instead is a grotty, no budget production in which half the running time consists of an ugly middle-aged guy raping and murdering women in his basement.Yes, that's all the story this film has. Sure, the filmmakers attempt something more by including a friendly voice-over narrative and a seemingly disconnected ending, but it really is trash. The performances are bad, with the protagonist underacting to the point of being non-existent, while the women are just forced to strip down and scream a lot. H6 is a graphic, brutal horror flick, but other than repulse it does nothing for the viewer. I hated it. If you want to see a decent Spanish killer film check out something like SLEEP TIGHT which is masterful by comparison.

CelluloidRehab Sometimes we think, due to our limited circumstances, that as a species we have evolved to a level beyond the animal. That we are somehow more developed and more advanced. How much "evolutionary difference" is there between defecating in the fields and creating a special "place", with water, where one goes to defecate? Also think about how sometimes it is of a communal nature (sometimes even doing it side-by-side, separated just a couple of feet apart from each other by incomplete walls). The most prude of us, the English, even went as so far as to disguise it with language,as if perfuming the air. They called it a water closet. George Carlin would have something funny to say about that subject right about now. I'm definitely no George Carlin, but I can press play. If you are ready to deal with the baseness of the human species, then this movie might be right for you.The movie starts brutally in a darkened stairwell, where we witness a most violent break up. Antonio Frau, in the most extreme act of machismo, strangles his girl friend/ wife. This movie tries very hard to make you feel extremely uncomfortable with what is happening on the the screen. It would easily qualify as grind house, except that it is way too dark, stylized and imposes too much seriousness to be campy. It resembles more of a "From Hell" in the type of a demi-hero, demi-villainous character it employs. Antonio Frau (Fernando Acaso), after being released from prison years later, inherits an abandoned ex-whore house from his aunt. This becomes the scene of the fun house experience at Freddy Kruger's house. Fernando Acaso does an amazing job of creating a Jeffery Dahmer like demeanor. It is cold on the outside, yet charming somehow. Throughout, however, is this creepy feeling like you are being surgically sliced into bits (in his mind). The storyline follows a modern piece of historically inspired fiction. Historically speaking, Henri Landru was a French serial killer that preyed mostly on widows, during World War I in Paris (10/11 of his victims were women). Henri kept a detailed log of all the women and all of the aliases he used on each. At one point a relative of one of his victims shows up looking for them. This stirs up the police, which leads to Landru and his journal (which was used as evidence to convict him). Landru eventually is guillotined a few years later. Antonio Frau actual speaks about Landru in the movie. He is considered a flawed inspiration. Henri was in it for the money, however, Antonio has another agenda as well (a Saw-like agenda). There is such a duplicity to the character of Antonio Frau. Some of the really graphic scenes had very little actual gore, but actually maintained a somber and terrifying style which helped it from falling back into grind.The style is eerily single X snuff-like. There is some guilt in watching, yet it feeds the voyeuristic and bass tendencies in humankind to continue to not look away. It is hard to recommend this movie to anyone, considering the nature of the violence. This is why I gave it a 5/10. Depending on the type of person watching this movie, I can easily see it going either way. Much like someone once said of Kronos; You either find it interesting or strongly, wrenchingly dislike it. There is no love.

rothsindel This self proclaimed "very talented artist" have directed easily the worst Spanish film of the 21st century. Lack of emotion, coherence, rhythm, skills, humor... it repeats the same situation over and over again. It shows no character development. It does not even show any violent and/or sexual content, and it does not add anything new to the psycho-killer sub genre. So lame it should be shown at film schools as an example of "what not to do" in a first movie.BTW where the hell is the "talent"? there are scenes which have been shot almost identically; there are scenes which have two or more master shots and it is quite awful to see the action jumping from one master shot to another without a reason. The camera almost never moves, as if the "very talented artist" was afraid of showing his lack of visual skills. The actors playing the main roles act like amateurs, and the supporting cast is hardly believable. There are more holes than plot in the script (if ever there was one)...A really disheartening movie, and a whatsoever talented director.

Kanzaman-2 Brutal film. I watched it at a press screening and I was as shocked as was the rest of the press! Everybody was dead silent as we left the screening room and the female audience there looked quite rattled. It is hard to comment on the film as it is so different and unclassifiable. And I had to remind myself that it was indeed fiction... Not recommendable for a first date unless she is into bondage... Or if you want to brag about how you can spot a cult film from a first time director...(Judging by the fantastic reviews worldwide)... Also, I think that the film has been selected for the Edimburgh Film Festival this year... - - - - 10/10