After the death of his twin brother, Dante (Luis Machín) starts to become fearful of death, unable to deal with the thought of it, which comes up quite often, seeing as how his wife Beatriz (Julieta Cardinali) also dies. That's when he starts having hallucinations and starts to experience multiple versions of himself. As Dante is a tailor, there are a lot of mannequins as well, which allows this to be painted with the yellow tones of a giallo brush, helped by the masked and gloved killer who keeps murdering everyone around our protagonist.
Director and writer Daniel de la Vega has nearly too many ideas here with multiple duplicates and even time travel and scenes we've seen before repeated later and then shown how they impact the film. Sometimes when you shoot for the moon, you explode on the launchpad.
The good parts: the visuals look great, the Claudio Simonetti score helps and the 3D technique is more about depth than throwing things at you. It's also nice to see a good budget for a horror film from Argentina.
The bad: Near the end - massive spoiler - Dante must choose between sawing off his own hand to escape or dying. He chooses to hack himself to bits except, you know, he's in a wood chair. I'm all for giallo asking a lot and making you make narrative leaps, but sometimes, a bridge can be too far. Also: Dante has necrophobia, a fear of being around dead bodies. Isn't nearly everyone?
Director and writer Daniel de la Vega has nearly too many ideas here with multiple duplicates and even time travel and scenes we've seen before repeated later and then shown how they impact the film. Sometimes when you shoot for the moon, you explode on the launchpad.
The good parts: the visuals look great, the Claudio Simonetti score helps and the 3D technique is more about depth than throwing things at you. It's also nice to see a good budget for a horror film from Argentina.
The bad: Near the end - massive spoiler - Dante must choose between sawing off his own hand to escape or dying. He chooses to hack himself to bits except, you know, he's in a wood chair. I'm all for giallo asking a lot and making you make narrative leaps, but sometimes, a bridge can be too far. Also: Dante has necrophobia, a fear of being around dead bodies. Isn't nearly everyone?