While Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar is known mostly for his big-hearted melodramas, he’s also dabbled in De Palma-esque thrillers, but never indulged in a full-on shock horror movie — until this surreal 2011 entry. It’s the story of a brilliant surgeon (Antonio Banderas), who is keeping a beautiful young woman prisoner (a stunning Elena Anaya).
You’re not really sure what his end game is, but you know, from moment one, that it must be perverse as hell. And guess what? It is. The movie has a big twist so surprising it would make M. Night Shyamalan weep like a newborn baby.
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