This bloody Spanish psychological horror flick starts right out with some slaughterhouse footage of cows being sliced up and drained of their blood. Whenever I see this I figure we're in for an underlying anti-meat-consuming message which you could easily read into this. From there on we get the tale of a fellow who slowly unravels and becomes a murdering nut-job after accidentally and justifiably killing an asshole cab-driver. I probably would dig this movie a lot more if it wasn't so slowly paced and the title is pretty misleading as well since, as far as I can tell, there isn't any cannibalism going on here at all. It's alternate, less splashy title of APARTMENT ON THE 13TH FLOOR, and it's original title of WEEK OF THE KILLER, are both a little more accurate in conveying the non-horror elements on display. Probably a good movie for fans of stuff like HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER but in a more subdued version.
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