Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends decide to take pictures of the body of Anna Fritz. They decide they could make love to her and nobody would know. They are in front of Anna Fritz ... and can do with it what they want.
The Corpse of Anna Fritz is a deeply unsettling Spanish thriller that earns its distinctiveness through sheer audacity of premise — a necrophilia-adjacent horror scenario that escalates into a survival thriller when the 'corpse' turns out to be alive. Novelty is high because very few films dare to occupy this moral and narrative space with such unflinching commitment. The cinematography is competent and claustrophobic, effectively using the confined hospital setting. Acting is serviceable; the leads convey escalating panic and moral degradation credibly. The plot is tight and efficiently constructed for its 76-minute runtime, though it leans heavily on its single shocking concept rather than deep narrative complexity. The ending is functional and appropriately grim, leaving a disturbing aftertaste, though it doesn't fully capitalize on the ethical dimensions it raises.