The 30-minute horror short so disturbing, even the director's mom walked out.
When the others leave for the night, the last mortician begins to fondle the corpses. He quickly moves to the corpse of a young woman who died in a car crash.
Practical Effects
Hyper-realistic corpse effects that fooled early audiences into thinking it was real.
Direction
Cerdà's clinical framing makes the unwatchable somehow hypnotic.
Director
Nacho Cerdà
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'corpse' was played by actress Xevi Collellmir in prosthetics so convincing that viewers at Fantasia Film Festival reportedly vomited and fainted.
Part of Cerdà's 'Death Trilogy,' this helped define 90s extreme European horror alongside works by Catherine Breillat and Gaspar Noé—though Cerdà later disowned the shock-value approach.
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