Arrebato (1979)

Name: Arrebato (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror
Released: October 1, 2021
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Carmen Giralt, Cecilia Roth, Eusebio Poncela, Helena Fernán-Gómez, Javier Ulacia

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Altered Innocence | Release Date: October 1, 2021 | Unrated

Starring: Carmen Giralt, Cecilia Roth, Eusebio Poncela, Helena Fernán-Gómez, Javier Ulacia, Luis Ciges, Marta Fernández Muro, Max Madera, Rosa Crespo, Will More

Summary: Horror movie director José is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events: a sudden reappearance from an ex-girlfriend and a package from past acquaintance Pedro: a reel of Super-8 film, an audiotape, and a door key. From there, the boundaries of time,Horror movie director José is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events: a sudden reappearance from an ex-girlfriend and a package from past acquaintance Pedro: a reel of Super-8 film, an audiotape, and a door key. From there, the boundaries of time, space, and sexuality are erased as José is once more sucked into Pedro’s vampiric orbit. Together, they attempt the ultimate hallucinogenic catharsis through a moebius strip of filming and being filmed.… Expand

Director: Iván Zulueta

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 105 min

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RogerEbert.com Carlos Aguilar

Oct 1, 2021

Arrebato invokes cinema as an otherworldly entity that possesses, just as addictive and destructive as mind-altering substances injected into the bloodstream. Read full review

Budd Wilkins

Arrebato is an arresting feat of self-aware filmmaking, lashing together experimental tendencies with the tropes and trappings of genre cinema. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Its parts recall many later works as diverse as Trainspotting and The Ring, its depiction of addiction and stasis leading us towards a legitimately brilliant ending that brings the whole thing into meta territory with its film-within-a-film coaxing us to enter the fray ourselves. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

A hallucinatory, claustrophobic examination of the secret potency of film itself, it enters the disorienting world of a young film-maker who discovers his camera has a feature he'd never imagined. Taking one right back to those great '70s mood-movies, it's a singular treat. [05 Nov 2003, p.97]

Jacob Oller

A movie completely in the addictive thrall of cinema, unhealthily enamored with the act of creation itself, Arrebato is an unnerving and enthralling fetish empowered by its hedonism: Drugs, sex, beauty, nostalgia and a disillusioned disaffection with them all. Read full review

Bill Cosford

It is a startling film in structure, style and story, but most of all in the simplicity of its plot -- which, once revealed (and that takes a while) is a horror story for cineastes. [03 Feb 1983, p.C8]

Richard Whittaker

Oct 6, 2021

Even if it beat Videodrome to the screen by two years, it's not quite the same level of must-see programming. It's fascinating, but less coherent, less scathing, and far more meandering. Read full review

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kayhamed

Oct 8, 2021

This film is a real mystery. I made a short film inspired by it. recommended.

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