The Exquisite Cadaver (1969)
- Original title
- Las crueles
- Directed by
- Vicente Aranda
- Genre
- horror film, crime film, thriller film
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 16 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A wealthy publisher gets body parts in the mail two years after his mistress killed herself. The packages come with a blackmail letter from the dead woman's former lesbian lover, who wants revenge.
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What happens
The Exquisite Cadaver (Spanish: Las crueles) AKA: The Cruel Ones is a 1969 Spanish film noir psychological thriller film directed by Vicente Aranda, based on the short story Bailando Para Parker written by Gonzalo Suárez. The plot follows a well-to-do publisher and family man who begins to receive severed body parts in the mail two years after his mistress committed suicide. Along with one of these bloody parcels is a letter of blackmail from the dead woman's former lesbian lover, who seeks vengeance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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