Mientras
Duermes
(2011)
Mientras
Duermes (Sleep Tight) is
a creepy thriller about
César (the always
good Luis Tosar), a
lonely
doorman/supervisor of an
apartment block who is
in the process of
perpetrating
psychological (and
possibly physical)
torture on Clara (Marta
Etura, also always
good), a young, bright,
fun loving woman. It
seems César is
entering Clara's
apartment before she
gets home, waiting under
her bed until she goes
to sleep and then
knocking her out with
chlorophyll to do want
he wants to her. And
he's sending her secret
admirer letters that are
going too far. Things
escalate when
César overhears a
phone conversation
between Clara and her
boyfriend where she
dismisses him and he
decides to amp up his
torture. He gives her a
rash, then cures it,
then puts cockroaches in
her apartment.
César helps get
rid of the cockroaches
as she goes to her
mother's place and is in
the process of the next
phase of his torture
when she comes home with
her just arrived
boyfriend and he is
stuck in the apartment.
He is caught leaving the
apartment, but manages
to get away by saying he
forgot his bag of stuff
that they had found.
Police also close in on
him, but he manages to
divert them. Things are
spiraling out of control
for César and
when he is given his two
weeks notice to finish
his job and leave the
complex, he is also
running out of time to
complete his master
plan. Excellent and very
creepy (and quite
disturbing) thriller
from the director of the
two [REC] films (the
first one I really like,
the second one's not bad
either) that is driven
by an excellent
performance by Luis
Tosar who plays a
bitter, lonely man who
gets in over his head
extremely well. Sure to
be remade and toned
down, so see this film
before then.
Marta
Etura
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