Watched Spain's 2023 Killer Book Club (1:28:56). Seven young university students of literature and aspiring young writers (Angela Kuntz, Sara Pons, Eva Yanez, Virginia Rubio, Sebastian Hoyos, Koldo Abouk, and Rai Garcia) form a book club. On their seventh meeting they are joined by Fernando Aguado, Angela's boyfriend. One day, their mentor Professor Cruzado receives an e-mail from Angela and then tries to seduce and rape her inside his office. News of this incident spreads fast among the students. The members of the book club agree to prank the professor, dress as clowns, and terrorize him inside his apartment, but, during an ensuing chase, the professor falls off a railing and dies.
The members of the book club agree to keep their prank a secret. The professor's death is ruled by the police a suicide, since he was on the brink of a divorce. Everything seems to go on fine--until a killer dressed as a clown--most likely one of the book club members--murders the students one at a time.
This is an entertaining, exciting movie, though it uses two old templates: Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None a.k.a Ten Little Indians and Scream. Too much guesswork is demanded of the audience as to who the killer is, and the longer it takes, the more it gets either hilarious or boring. There are two credible twists at the end, though--and, alas, a third twist that makes everything dwindle down to a B-grade movie.
like Scream
too much running through ambitguous corridorws
tgen little indians
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