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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Pepa Doncel (1969)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.