Killing Words

aka: Palabras encadenadas
Spain 2003, 89 minutes
Dir. Laura Mana
In Spanish with English subtitles
Rating: [R18]
Genres: Horror, Suspense/Crime / Serial Killers

Feat. Darío Grandinetti, Goya Toledo, Fernando Guillén, Eric Bonicatto

Aroview: This quality, award-winning thriller has a woman waking to find herself restrained in a dark basement, while a seeming serial-killer, pacing in the shadows, challenges her to play the 'word game' in order to secure her freedom.

With a coldly intellectual protagonist and overall tone that evokes the films of Michael Haneke (FUNNY GAMES), this is sometimes gruelling, but unfolds its story-logic with a few interesting surprises.