During
the hot, sweltering summer, Mike, a young American tourist goes looking for his
missing friend in an isolated Spanish village. Here, he gets embroiled with an
alluring local woman who soon becomes obsessed with him. Forced to escape, Mike
soon finds that the horror is far greater than he could have ever imagined.
Stupid is as stupid does. This whole movie is stupid. Goodness, what a load of garbage. What is there to like? The plot? The acting? The scenery? People just do not behave the way this guy does in life-threatening situations. Only at the end does he do the NORMAL thing but its too late for that poor sap.
Its a psycho-horror drama flick about an American hippie-backpacker going rural to find his vanished friend, that ends up in a nightmare, because he turned down the wish of a hot sunburned Spanish woman, that gave away her heart but was sent back in return. so let the moral be, do not even think about letting a Spanish girl down, then shell let you run the devil on the Spanish highway.
it's a slow flick with some acceptable acting, a suspenseful score, and a beautiful filmography.
but it's not one for the grumpy old man, he's far too restless, but it's still a recommendation if you like psychophobia.
An excellently filmed and acted movie that kept my attention throughout. However, watching this at the time of the Australian bushfire crisis I was somewhat repelled, near the movie's start, by seeing the lead character throw an empty plastic water bottle into what looked like dry grassland under a blazing sun without any adverse comments from the other characters (unless I missed something!). For that reason, I gave these seven stars rather than eight.
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