Enrique buys a color television set just to satisfy a personal pleasure long time deferred but, from that moment on, he becomes obsessed with it in such way that eventually he is incapable to differ reality from fiction.
Acting
Narciso Ibáñez Menta descends into madness with terrifying precision.
Direction
Chicho Ibáñez Serrador weaponizes the TV frame itself.
Sound
Static hum becomes psychological torture device.
Director
Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for Spanish television in 1974—literally a TV movie about TV destroying a man. The medium IS the message.
Chicho Ibáñez Serrador also directed 'Who Can Kill a Child?' and essentially invented Spanish horror's intellectual tradition.
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