Afterparty (II) (2013)
2/10
Uninspired and superfluous wannabe slasher
21 December 2023
I did see this Spanish (wannabe) slasher out, but I was totally worn out afterwards: it's (fortunately not too long) 75 minutes of totally chaotic running around of 5 persons, locked-up inside some isolated villa (from the outside it's like a post-modern bunker made of concrete), everybody is either chasing, or trying to escape from everybody else, hitting and stabbing at each other with whatever they can find, and screaming their heads off. The action is cramped into all kinds of corridors, stairwells, and rooms, preferably with the lights turned off, so it's even hard to tell the various persons from each other. Which in fact isn't really a problem, because they are all nondescript and extremely unsympathetic; only main character Carlos, who's supposed to be some sort of soap superstar that teen girls rave about, gets a tiny bit of background, just to proof that he's undoubtedly the worst of the lot.

Yes, there is a meagre story: the girls who all swooned over Carlos find out that he's in fact untrue and philandering, and want to teach him a lesson by construing a weird prank, that goes totally awry, with the afore mentioned consequence of everybody going at everybody's throat. Probably there's meant to be a moral: something with the dangers of stardom and blind worshipping by fans, but it goes all down the same chaotic and pretentious drain. And for a supposed horror there's hardly any suspense or serious scares, while the killings are simple and uninspired. I would say: don't bother with this totally superfluous failure.
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