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1996 ‘Tesis’ Directed by Alejandro Amenábar

My name is Angela. They're going to kill me.

While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...

Ana Torrent Fele Martínez Eduardo Noriega Xabier Elorriaga Miguel Picazo Nieves Herranz Rosa Campillo Paco Hernández Rosa Ávila Teresa Castanedo José Miguel Caballero Joserra Cadiñanos Julio Vélez Pilar Ortega Olga Margallo José Luis Cuerda Emiliano Otegui Walter Prieto Florentino Sainz Helena Castañeda

Director Director

Alejandro Amenábar

Producers Producers

José Luis Cuerda Alejandro Amenábar Hans Burmann Wolfgang Burmann Julio Madurga Emiliano Otegui María Elena Sáinz de Rozas Ricardo Steinberg

Writers Writers

Mateo Gil Alejandro Amenábar

Editor Editor

María Elena Sáinz de Rozas

Cinematography Cinematography

Hans Burmann

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Executive producers exec. producers.

Emiliano Otegui José Luis Cuerda

Production Design Production Design

Wolfgang Burmann

Composers Composers

Alejandro Amenábar Mariano Marín

Sound Sound

Pelayo Gutiérrez Nacho Royo-Villanova Ricardo Steinberg

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Sogepaq Las Producciones del Escorpión S.L.

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While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty…

The chilling first feature from the master of psychological thrillers, The Others director Alejandro Amenábar, examines society’s insatiable obsession with violent imagery. Located in the sleazy underworld of amateur snuff films, this tense, creepy campus-set thriller is rife with unsettling turns.

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Snuff movies, true-crime TV shows and other forms of violent entertainment figure heavily in restrained thriller about a film student who becomes the star in her own life-or-death drama. Newcomer Alejandro Amenabar provides an inventive plot and a sufficient supply of red herrings. Could click in the international video market with savvy handling.

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Snuff movies, true-crime TV shows and other forms of violent entertainment figure heavily in the plot of “Thesis,” a surprisingly restrained thriller about a film student who becomes the star in her own life-or-death drama. Newcomer Alejandro Amenabar provides an inventive plot and a sufficient supply of red herrings, but fails to sustain suspense in the pic’s draggy second half. Theatrical prospects are iffy. Even so, “Thesis” could click in the international video market with savvy handling.

Ana Torrent is well cast as Angela, a Madrid film student who wants to write her thesis on violence in movies. Her faculty adviser offers to help by searching the university’s archives for violent videos. Unfortunately, he wanders into a secret storage room and picks up an unmarked videocassette, and he’s shocked into a fatal heart attack while viewing the tape.

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Angela discovers her mentor dead in a university screening room. Impulsively, she steals the tape he was watching. At home, she discovers the video is a recording of the torture-murder of a co-ed who disappeared three years earlier.

Rather than alert the police, Angela decides to investigate on her own. She seeks info about violent video from an eccentric classmate, Chema (Fele Martinez), an avid fan of porno and splatter movies. He looks at the snuff video and immediately recognizes that it was shot with a special model of video camera. Just a few days later, Angela spots one of those cameras in the hands of a handsome student, Bosco (Eduardo Noriega), who just happens to know the long-missing co-ed.

Amenabar effectively develops a slow-simmering attraction between Angela and Bosco, slyly hinting that she may be drawn to him because of the danger he possibly represents. Meanwhile, Chema fumes jealously and does a great deal to arouse audience suspicion. Other prime suspects include Castro (Javier Elorriaga), Angela’s new faculty adviser; and Yolanda (Rosa Campillo), Bosco’s possessive girlfriend.

Despite some whopping improbabilities — would snuff movie producers really hide their master tapes in a university storage room? –“Thesis” generates genuine tension. Pic also manages a few pointed comments about the relationship between violence and voyeurism, particularly in a final scene that has the host of a Spanish tabloid TV show warning viewers that they’re about to see a clip from a snuff movie. The viewers appear to be raptly attentive.

Torrent manages the difficult trick of seeming intelligent even when her character does some pretty dumb things. Martinez is aptly ambiguous in his portrayal of the surly Chema.

Hans Burmann’s moody cinematography is a major asset. Other tech values are first-rate.

According to pic’s production notes, Amenabar is, at 23, the youngest feature filmmaker in Spain. It will be interesting to see whether he can fulfill the promise he displays here.

Production: A Las Productions del Escorpion production. Produced by Jose Luis Cuerda. Executive producer, Emiliano Otegui Piedra. Directed, written by Alejandro Amenabar.
Crew: Camera (color), Hans Burmann; editor , Maria Elena Saenz De Rozas; music, Amenabar, Mariano Marin; art direction, Wolfgang Burmann; sound (Dolby), Goldstein & Steinberg; assistant director, Walter Prieto. Reviewed at Berlin Film Festival (Panorama), Feb. 16, 1996. Running time: 125 MIN.
With: Angela ... Ana Torrent Chema ...Fele Martinez Bosco ... Eduardo Noriega Sena ... Nieves Harranz Yolanda ... Rosa Campillo Figueroa ... Miguel Picazo Castro ... Javier Elorriaga

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"My name is Ángela. They are going to kill me."

Tesis ("Thesis") is a 1996 Spanish thriller film.

It tells the story of Ángela, a film student working on her college thesis about violence in movies. When her tutor dies watching a Snuff Film in a secret room of the university's library, Ángela hides the film and enlists the help of Chema, a strange boy in her class with an interest in gore. The appearance of another, enigmatic student named Bosco and the entry of her new tutor will further complicate things, as Ángela tries to uncover the author of the mysterious video.

Tesis was director Alejandro Amenábar's first movie, made while he was himself in college, and was written by Amenabar and Mateo Gil. The movie won seven Goya Awards in 1996, including the award for Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. It stars Ana Torrent as Ángela, Fele Martínez as Chema, and Eduardo Noriega as Bosco.

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Accidental Murder : Chema kills Castro while trying to disarm him. This convinces him more about not going to police, since he thinks they will just treat him and Ángela as murderers.
Adults Are Useless : Played with . Ángela flees into a room and closes the door when she sees Bosco at home, presuming that he has broken into. Cue her mother walking in to tell her that she has been talking to her "friend" and he's been waiting for her for a while. However, Ángela never tells her mother anything bad about him, so she cannot be faulted for thinking nothing of him.
All Girls Want Bad Boys : Ángela is obviously attracted to Bosco from the beginning, despite being introduced to him as a possible Serial Killer of young women, and refuses to report her suspicions until she's sure he's not innocent.
Alone with the Psycho / I Have You Now, My Pretty : Happens twice to Ángela. First with Castro , before Chema saves her, and then with Bosco .
Annoying Younger Sibling : Ángela's younger sister nonchalantly blurts the theme of her thesis to Bosco, which makes him easily deduce why Ángela was tailing him, and later goes on a date with him.
An Arm and a Leg : The killer saws the limbs of his victims while they are alive.
Asthma Peril : Angela's advisor Figueora dies of an asthma attack caused by the violent horrors he saw on the snuff tape, and provides Angela with her motive to keep looking for whoever filmed it.
Subverted when it's revealed that he owns the same type of camera .
Ax-Crazy : Bosco and Castro are both this. They're sadistic and psychopatic killers who loves to tortures and then slaughter woman while filming the act.
Beard of Evil : Castro has the fullest and best trimmed beard of all characters in the film.
Big Bad Duumvirate : Bosco and Castro are the main perpetrators of the snuff movies. The former is the masked killer who tortures and butchers the women while the latter is the one filming the scene.
Betty and Veronica : Chema and Bosco for Ángela, though she presumably ends with neither.
Boom, Headshot! : The killer finishes his victims with a shot in the mouth before they can die of their injuries as ends happening to the killer himself.
Brown Note : Ángela's first tutor dies of a heart attack while watching the film. Ángela takes it, but she's reluctant to watch at first and only listens to it.
Chekhov's Gun : The knife Ángela takes from Bosco's kitchen later saves her from him .
Cold-Blooded Torture : The killer aims to inflict as much pain as possible before killing his victims. That includes hitting them in the head with a hammer and cutting their limbs with a hacksaw, among other things.
Dating Catwoman : Ángela is attracted to Bosco, which he exploits right to the end when he tries to distract her by asking the color of his eyes, in an attempt to grab the gun out of her hands.
Death by Irony / Karmic Death : At the end, Bosco unwittingly records his own death by gunshot in the same place, with the same camera, and with the same gun that he used to commit his murders, and at least part of it is shown on TV for everyone to see.
Evil Gloating : Both Castro and Bosco go on tirades about what they want to do with Ángela after she uncovers them. Justified ; as snuff filmmakers, they want to scare their victims as much as possible.
Face Death with Dignity : Though obviously scared beforehand, Angela doesn't sob or try to bargain after she's tied to the killer's chair.
Gory Discretion Shot : The Snuff Film within the movie is never really shown, only a few glimpses and shots of people reacting to it.
Ángela starts following Bosco after she sees him with the camera type used to make the snuff movies. He notices and turns back, then starts following Ángela when she tries to act like she wasn't.
See Death by Irony / Karmic Death above.
Hypocrite : Ángela is very vocal about her dislike for violence and her disgust for anyone who revels in it, yet every time there's something really violent she can't help herself but to look, and she records the screams from the Snuff Film to listen to them. The film uses this to underline that, regardless of how much society reviles violence, it is inevitably attracted to it.
MacGuffin : The Snuff Film that 'kills' Ángela's teacher.
Nightmare Fetishist : Ángela, who tries to look at the dead body at the station and is writing her thesis about violence in film; Chema, who has gore and violent videos and a house decorated with monster motifs; Castro and Bosco, who film snuff movies .
Police Are Useless : Chema and Ángela refuse to report anything to police until the movie is over. The university's security guards are useless too, leaving without checking on Ángela's first tutor and not realizing he is dead, despite having a security camera on the projection room.
Poor Communication Kills : Chema can only spell the word "garage" when he tries to warn Ángela about Bosco . This leads Ángela to said garage, where she discovers that it is the place used to film the murders, and she is immediately taken prisoner.
Psycho Psychologist : Castro is the ringleader of the Snuff film business, responsible of the torture and death of 16 girls. He is also is a Psycologist, and teacher of Audiovisual Psycology. He also advises the students to become sold-offs! . Many people celebrated his death in the cinemas with cheers and joy!
Red Herring : Ángela discovers that Chema lied about not knowing Bosco beforehand, that he has the camera type used in the murders in his closet, and that he has been following and filming her while she investigated the case without her consent. He's not involved in the crimes.
Ripped from the Headlines : An obvious take on the 1992 disappearances and murders of the Alcasser Girls, just moved to a film school, and the Conspiracy Theory that they were abducted by snuff movie makers in particular. Similarities include the killer talking about sawing a hand and finishing with a headshot, which was said to have happened to Miriam García (in reality, the hand's bones had been dislocated during decomposition and left accidentally at the scene), and Ángela fearing for her young sister when she sees her talking to Bosco in a disco (the Girls disappeared when they were going to one). Finally, the ending has the people looking forward to Bosco 's death on TV, an obvious reference to the unprecedented exposure and sensationalism of the Alcasser case in the media.
Serial Killer : The epilogue reveals that Bosco murdered 16 girls and buried them in his property.
Sibling Rivalry : Played with. Ángela fears for her sister when she sees her talking to Bosco at a disco, but can't share the reasons with her... so she kisses Bosco in front of her.
Snuff Film : The MacGuffin of the movie.
Nice Guy : Chema, in contrast to the alluring bad boy Bosco.
No Social Skills : Chema isn't the most diplomatic person around.
Stalker with a Crush : Ángela's crush on Bosco doesn't seem very healthy at the end of the movie, and Chema is also one of these, with him stalking Ángela and filming her in her home .
The Sociopath : The person who filmed the Snuff Film , namely Bosco, and also Castro .
Take That! : Jorge Castro is famously based in one of Amenábar's college teachers, Antonio Castro, whom Amenábar claimed made him fail his exams due to disagreements. Notably, Antonio fired back at Amenábar in an interview and revealed that the latter never bothered to attend his exams (which Amenábar retorted by claiming he would have surely failed him).
Tall, Dark, and Handsome : Noriega's Bosco. Not surprising that Ángela develops a crush on him (or that he fully uses it to his advantage).
Treacherous Advisor : Castro to Ángela. Chema is also discovered to have been hiding information from Ángela and suspected of being the killer at one point, but he genuinely wants to help her.
The most common criticism of the movie is how stupid it is for the killer to store the snuff movies in a room college library where anyone can walk in at any moment. The whole movie would not have happened if only Castro or Bosco had kept the copies safe in their property.
Bosco traps Ángela and ties her to a chair, yet misses that she has a literal knife up her sleeve , allowing her to escape.
We Used to Be Friends : Ángela discovers that Bosco and Chema knew each other beforehand and share an old photo.
Will They or Won't They? : Ángela flip-flops during the movie between believing Bosco innocent and wanting to clear my name and believing he's the killer and wanting nothing with him because of that .
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Egoist Not Rated. In Japanese, with subtitles. Running time: 2 hours. In theaters.

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Thesis (1996)

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Sex & Nudity (3)
Violence & Gore (2)
Profanity (1)
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (1)
Frightening & Intense Scenes (1)

Sex & Nudity

Mild 14 of 33 found this mild Severity? None 5 Mild 14 Moderate 10 Severe 4 We were unable to submit your evaluation. Please try again later.
Full female nudity but not in a sexual manner. Edit
In a brief sexual scene, a man walks into a room approaching a woman on the bed, slowly pointing a knife on her neck. Then, the woman kiss and licks his hand. He kisses her lips passionately and kiss her lower body to her privates. Then, the camera cuts to her face. We see her moaning with pleasure. Edit
A man and a woman kiss passionately at a nightclub. Later, we see them kissing outside while laying on the grounds. Edit

Violence & Gore

Severe 15 of 21 found this severe Severity? None 0 Mild 1 Moderate 5 Severe 15 We were unable to submit your evaluation. Please try again later.
There are many scenes of torture snuff very graphic and realistic, in addition to sexual abuse. Edit
The beginning of the film features many scenes from a mondo film which are incredibly graphic. This includes people getting beaten, people being shot in the head, etc. Although these scenes are short, they are very graphic. Edit
Moderate 10 of 22 found this moderate Severity? None 0 Mild 10 Moderate 10 Severe 2 We were unable to submit your evaluation. Please try again later.
Some swearing and insults. Edit

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild 15 of 19 found this mild Severity? None 2 Mild 15 Moderate 2 Severe 0 We were unable to submit your evaluation. Please try again later.
Use of chloroform and any other drug (certainly tobacco and/or alcohol). Edit

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Severe 13 of 18 found this severe Severity? None 1 Mild 2 Moderate 2 Severe 13 We were unable to submit your evaluation. Please try again later.
There are many bloody and disturbing scenes of torture snuff, as well as scenes of strong suspense and tension. There are some scares and a peculiarly tense and claustrophobic up scene for some. Edit

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