The Corpse of Anna Fritz

The Corpse of Anna Fritz
Theatrical poster
Directed by Hèctor Hernández Vicens
Written by
Hèctor Hernández Vicens
  • Isaac P. Creus
Starring Alba Ribas
Cristian Valencia
Bernat Saumell
Albert Carbó
Music by Tolo Prats
Edited by Alberto Bernad
Release date
  • 15 March 2015 (2015-03-15) (SXSW)
Running time
 76 minutes
Country Spain
Language Spanish
Box office €360,000

The Corpse of Anna Fritz (Spanish: El cadáver de Anna Fritz) is a 2015 Spanish thriller film co-written and directed by Hèctor Hernández Vicens. It premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas on 15 March 2015.[1] It was remade in Telugu as the film Devi Sri Prasad starring Dhanraj in 2017.

Plot

Pau works as an orderly at a hospital, a job that gives him the opportunity to watch the bodies of young women that are brought to the hospital's morgue. One day he's stunned when the body of Anna Fritz, a beautiful and desirable actress, arrives. Pau cannot resist taking a picture and sending it to one of his friends, Ivan, who quickly arrives at the morgue to view Anna's nude body. Around the same time another friend, Javi, arrives for the same reasons. Ivan soon decides that he wants to have sex with Anna's corpse and begins raping it, prompting Pau to suggest that he take a turn after Ivan. However, during their act of necrophilia Anna suddenly returns to life and opens her eyes, which terrifies Pau.

The men are then faced with two choices. They can either report Anna's revival and face rape charges, as there was no way Anna could have consented to sex, or they can murder her and cover up their crimes. While Pau and Ivan both want to hide their crime, Javi pushes for them to save Anna and take the punishment for what they've done. The three men argue and Ivan unintentionally kills Javi. Without Javi to stop them, Ivan and Pau decide to murder Anna, only for her to end up killing them by tricking them into believing that she is once again dead, then stabbing them both with scissors once their guards are lowered.

Cast

  • Alba Ribas: Anna Fritz
  • Bernat Saumell: Javi
  • Cristian Valencia: Ivan
  • Albert Carbó: Pau
  • Nico Avila: the doctor

Release

The film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest film festival on 15 March 2015.[2] It was later released in Spain in October of the same year, where it made €36,000 at the box office and was viewed an estimated 9,000 times.[3] In February 2016, director Hèctor Hernández Vicens discovered that his film was popular in the Philippines, where it was illegally viewed or downloaded between 5 and 7 million times via outlets such as Facebook and YouTube.[3] This prompted the film crew to seek out legal counsel in an attempt to stop the illegal distribution. They have since managed to get an upload of the film deleted from YouTube.[2] Due to the film's popularity overseas, the film's crew and producers are seeking to launch an advertising and screening campaign in the Philippines.[3]

Reception

In a positive review from We Got This Covered, Matt Donato remarked that it is "not a perfect thriller — but it's an aptly paced ride that doesn’t shy away from divisive boundaries".[4] The International Business Times praised certain elements such as lighting, while stating that they felt it would have worked better as a short film.[5] Cliff Wheatley at IGN singled out Alba Ribas's performance, the story's tense subject matter and denouement, though he felt that its 76-minute runtime was overlong, "because it relies so heavily on the shock value of the subject matter and doesn't bother to deliver any inkling of a likable character".[6]

Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 67% rating based on nine critics, and an average of 6.4/10.[7]

See also

  • Deadgirl, a 2008 film with a similar plot

References

  1. ↑ "The Corpse of Anna Fritz". SXSW Schedule 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  2. 1 2 "Spanish necrophilia movie is surprise hit in the Philippines". The Local. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  3. 1 2 3 "El extraño caso de la película española sobre necrofilia que triunfa en Filipinas". El diario. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  4. ↑ "The Corpse Of Anna Fritz Review [SXSW 2015]". We Got This Covered. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  5. ↑ "'The Corpse Of Anna Fritz': Necrophilia Movie Pushes The Horror Boundaries At SXSW". International Business Times. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  6. ↑ Wheatley, Cliff (14 March 2016). "The Corpse of Anna Fritz Review". IGN. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "The Corpse of Ana Fritz (El cadáver de Anna Fritz)". Rotten Tomatoes.
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