H6: Diario de un asesino (2005)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Martín Garrido Barón

Writer:

Martín Garrido (writer)

Release Date:

7 July 2006 (Spain)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Plot:

Antonio Frau is a formerly convicted killer who, while having an active sex life with his buxom wife Francisca who also cheats on him with her older doctor, becomes a serial killer/rapist of women.

Plot Keywords:

Buxom | Serial Killer | Torture | Serial Rapist | Bloody Violence

Cast

Fernando Acaso	...	Antonio Frau
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ángel Alarcón	...	Francisca's Father
Raquel Arenas	...	Rosa
Ruperto Ares	...	Pablo
María José Bausá	...	Francisca
Ramón Del Pomar	...	Curro
Miquel Fernandez	...	Antonio Frau
Martín Garrido	...	Miguel Oliver
Antonio Mayans	...	Dr. Planas
Sonia Moreno	...	Tina
Xènia Reguant	...	Marisa
Mark San Juan	...	Peralta
Alejo Sauras	...	Cristóbal
Elena Seguí	...	Soledad Mendez
Miquel Sitjar	...	Flores

Also Known As:

H6: Diary of a Serial Killer (USA) (DVD title)

Runtime:

Spain:92 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:18 (SPIO/JK) | USA:Not Rated

Company:

Kanzaman

Trivia:

Selected for the San Sebastian Horror & Fantasy festival 2005

Twisted Spanish serial killer flick is nasty & brutal

If one were to believe the blurb on the front of the box, this is "The Spanish Answer To Hostel". One has to wonder if the person that wrote that has seen Hostel, for this isn't really anything like it. Antonio Frau has been to prison for many years for killing his girlfriend, and now that he's out he finds he's the only living relative of an aunt who has left him a "guest house" which was actually a whore house. Of course Antonio moves right in and takes a bride, Francisca, who was apparently VERY anxious to move out of her unpleasant home life to have taken up with Senor Frau. For while his lovely wife is at work (having an affair with a doctor that she's carried on with for some time), dear Antonio is torturing and dismembering hookers and serving up the remains to his wife for dinner. He's also keeping a diary which was something that he learned from famous French serial killer Henri Landru. Now Antonio actually lets one hooker go, who takes the money he gives her and she squanders on some bad junk that she shoots up and ends up in the police station where she inadvertently gives him away, being that he's also killed her pimp by shoving him down a flight (or several) of stairs. So of course the cops are now watching Antonio but he is rather slick & little evidence has been left. This is fairly gruesome and yet doesn't really go too far, the camera at least has the decency to pan away during some of the more nasty dismemberment scenes, and all one basically sees sometimes is the clean up after, which is bad enough. Francisca's mother dies sometime during the course of the movie, & she and Antonio go for the funeral, after which they stay with her father, who commits suicide with Antonio accidentally wandering in on him and smiling as he commits the act, which was incredibly creepy. I would put this more in the category of "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer" than I would in the category of "Hostel". Brutal, nasty, and ugly, but not without redeeming values and even a hint here and there of dark comedy. 8 out of 10.