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| The girl with some unusual invisible friends make up this dark poster for Enrique Urbizu's A Real Friend |
We follow a lonely girl, whose only friends are Leatherface (from Tobe Hooper's horror masterpiece The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)) and a vampire, SPOILER who turns out to be her father.
The end of this strange, Spanish horror TV-movie did not make a whole lot of sense to me, and the surely well-meant drama it contains before this also fell somewhat to the ground for this reason. The film relies mostly not on dialog but instead on its countless horror movie references, so that passages in it seem surreal. If the idea behind A Real Friend comes from a personal experience, I must admit it is disturbing.
The film is part of the Spanish horror TV movie series, Películas Para No Dormir ('films to keep you awake') in which I found Álex de la Iglesia's The Baby's Room (2006) to be the best, and, as opposed to the mostly merely strange A Real Friend, - very scary!
A Real Friend is written by Jorge Arenillas (Invader/Invasor (2012)) and co-writer-director Enrique Urbizu (Life Marks/La Vida Mancha (2003)), with James Phillips (Hiroku: Defendors of Gaia (2013)) voice-directing the English version.
Watch the great American trailer for the horror TV movie series that A Real Friend is part of here
Cost: Unknown
Box office: None - TV movie
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[A Real Friend premiered on TV on 25 October (Spain) and runs 73 minutes. It was shot in Barcelona, Spain. Urbizu returned with No Rest for the Wicked/No Habrá Paz para los Malvados (2011). Goya Toledo (Rated R/Los Años Desnudos (2008)), who plays widow mother Angela, returned in Joaquín Sabina - ... y Seguido 1992-2005 (2006, video), La Contessa di Castiglione (2006, TV movie) and theatrically in El Último Justo (2007) 888 IMDb users have given A Real Friend a 5.2/10 average rating.]
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