Rojo sangre (2004)

Best movie ever!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

In "Rojo Sangre", that god of Eurohorror, Paul Naschy, plays a thinly veiled analogue of himself as an actor in the twilight of his career. At one stage he lists some of the movies he has made, and Naschy fans will instantly recognize many films from Naschy's own career. Sadly, as Naschy is here portraying an actor whose career has gone to seed, those titles aren't the only glaring reference to the actor's real life.Pablo Thevenets is an actor who the world has sidelined due to his age. He is ridiculed by casting directors, all younger than him, who regard him as a relic of a bygone and embarrassing era. When he finally lands a role, it is humiliating, and doesn't even involve acting on stage or screen: rather, he is relegated to dressing as macabre historical figures in front of a restaurant - and generally in the pooring rain while passers-by jeer at him.This job pays well, but for Thevenets - who has recently lost his daughter to murder and wife to another man - it is a final straw, and it begins to feel a bit like Naschy does "Death Wish", only with the criminals being puffed up showbiz hacks. Before we take Thevenets as a Paul Kersey clone, however, there is also the fact of his new boss, Mr Reficul, and what that name spells when reversed.This is all, of course, a treat for Naschy fans, for whom "Rojo sangre" is unmissable. If you have never seen a Naschy film, this one might not sell you completely - there are a ton of films from his back catalogue that are required viewing for anyone who is interested, particularly "El Caminante", "Night of the Werewolf", "Inquisicion", "Panic Beats", "Horror Rises from the Tomb", "The People Who Own the Dark", "The Werewolf Woman Versus the Vampire Woman". "Rojo Sangre" is a fans-only must-watch, but is a must-watch, nonetheless.

One of the great Spanish horror actors, Paul Naschy plays the role of Pablo Thevenet as if it is autobiographical, and it may very well be.He is washed up as an actor. Current directors want only pretty faces and lots of silicone. He lands a job as a doorman that allows him to use his prodigious talents as he was meant to.It is obvious that Pablo is entering a deal with the devil, but when the devil's assistant looks as good as Bibiana Fernández (Almodovar's Matador & his La Ley del Deseo), who cares? Apparently Pablo had some unpleasant experiences in life besides his downward fall as an actor and he snaps. This is where the horror begins. He is to spill blood copiously to get revenge.Christian Molina, in his first directorial project has managed to give us a new view of horror in a very stylized way, almost as good as Argento. I am looking forward to seeing his other films.

Well, apart from the fact that Christian Molina never did any film school whatsoever, and paired to the fact that he has worked most of his life on commercial work (TV commercials), it is no surprise when you walk out of the theater feeling sick of yet another cliché spit from a bad rehash of any of the classic horror films so ingeniously put together.If spending 12 bucks doesn't hurt your pocket then attend this exemplary work on "What never to do when shooting a horror film" or better put: "Read the manual before operating a cinema camera".Mr. Molina (Christian), stick to commercials, spare us while we have some faith in Horror movies just yet.

I rented the Seven Samurai and Rojo Sangre was in the box. Not wanting to drive all the way back to the video store, I watched it. Rojo Sangre is absolutely terrible. The plot is pulled along on a fishhook, with no reason for one event to follow the next.Key plot points are introduced with lines like: "here is the address of where to buy the finest cutlery". Jumping all over the place. Rojo Sangre tries to do too much with too little. What begins as an investigation into one man's rejection and subsequent madness turns into a quasi-spiritual hacker slasher which fails at both. Rojo Sangre draws the worst parts of Devil's Advocate, Eye's Wide Shut, and I Know What You Did Last Summer into a contrived flop. Rojo Sangre attempts to make up for this failure by including needless cruelty, and an affair that goes nowhere. The opening scene has the main character describing putting a live mouse in his ass. And yet no mention is made later of any sexual issues. The movie is laden with cheap tricks of this sort. And and the photoshop transitions ruin even the thin mood this film was able to muster. Not worth a bother.