H6: Diario de un asesino

Brutal film. I watched it at a press screening and I was as shocked as was the rest of the press! Everybody was dead silent as we left the screening room and the female audience there looked quite rattled. It is hard to comment on the film as it is so different and unclassifiable. And I had to remind myself that it was indeed fiction... Not recommendable for a first date unless she is into bondage... Or if you want to brag about how you can spot a cult film from a first time director...(Judging by the fantastic reviews worldwide)... Also, I think that the film has been selected for the Edimburgh Film Festival this year... - - - - 10/10

Antonio Frau is a cold-blooded killer.Frau has just been released from prison after serving 14 years for killing his girlfriend.He has inherited a run-down former brothel from a late aunt and married Francisca,who he met through a dating service and started writing to while inside.He lures prostitutes,most of them drug addicts,into his hotel at night where he ties them to a table,tortures and rapes them for days then cuts them into pieces using a chainsaw."H6:Diary of a Serial Killer" is occasionally pretty grim,but mostly uninteresting serial killer movie.It is not as extremely intense as my all time favourite Austrian "Angst",but there are some mildly shocking moments including rapes and chainsaw dismemberment.Fernado Acaso is pretty believable as a misogynistic killer and there is a bit of gore.Give it a look.

Man, just when you think you've seen all the brutal, messed-up scenes you can, along comes a movie like this to shake you up. What's in the water over there in Spain? Antonio Frau is a recently-paroled killer who served his time but hasn't been very well rehabilitated. He inherits an old brothel from some relative and he decides this is a sign from God to kill hookers...and pretty much anyone else who he deems "unclean". Of course, he doesn't just kill them, he "purifies" them, which consists of a lot of torture and drawn-out pain until finally dropping the chainsaw on them.

Admittedly, you don't see all the blood and guts, a lot of it is insinuated, but in a way that's better. It sticks with you, the mental images of what he does.

If you liked Hostel or are a big fan of really sick torture scenes, this is a must-see!

I deals with Antonio Frau : Fernando Acaso, a criminal who after 25 years in prison for killing his fiancee, he is then freed. Later on , a public notary tells him he has inherited an old boarding house from an unknown aunt. At the room number 6, of his motel he carries out grisly activities, by coping his admired French killer "Landru" and using a chainsaw , too. Meantime , he marries a nurse woman called Francisca : Maria José Bausa who deceives him with a doctor : Antonio Mayans , and both of whom live at the motel, going on their ordinary marriage life while Frau executes astonishing slaughter . Along the way he writes his self-biography and diary, detailing his ominous and dark exploits. Come in, dont be afraid.

Terrifying films with brief elements of black humor about murders with a series killer proceeding a criminal spree, about 18 victims cutting them in piezes, usually prostitutes, including lots of intercourses, gore and blood . A little known cast as Fernando Acaso playing a formerly convicted murderer who in freedom becomes a series killer as well as a women rapist. His wife is played by Maria Jose Bousa, in her only film, as a nurse who cheats him with her older doctor and she isn't aware his sinister activities. An un unknown support cast exception for short apperances from Alejo Sauras, Miguel Fernandez and Antonio Mayans who was regular actor in Jesus Franco or Uncle Jess films and his usual collaborator.

The movie contains an atmospheric musical score from Gaby Kemp and Jose Sanz, adding classic music by prestigious composers as Vivaldi : 4 seasons, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Requiem, Johannes Brahms : Concert no 2, Ludwig Van Beethoven : Sonata no 14 Moolight, Giacomo Puccini : Tosca , Frederic Chopin : Valse in Flat Major Minute, among others . The picture was regular but professionally directed by Martin Garrido Baron. He is a multiple artist, as he is actor/producer/photographer/director/composer. He has directed a few films as Vidas Tenebrosas , Nos veremos en infierno, El monstruo, and Mediterranean blue. Rating 5/10. Mediocre but entertaining.

With all the promising reviews warning about the morbidity & intense shock-value of this film, and especially with knowing what formed basic inspiration for the story , I can't help admitting I was a little disappointed after my viewing of "H6: Diary of a Serial Killer". Sure this Spanish effort is remotely gruesome and confronting, but not nearly as much as I expected (or hoped) and there are far more dull moments than shocking ones. As for the inspiration, the script (and even the main character Antonio Frau himself) often refers to Henri Landru. Landru was a French serial killer who murdered nearly a dozen of women during the years of World War one and carefully noted down his grim actions in a diary that eventually proved his guilt. Landru selected his victims randomly and killed without apparent motives, and maybe the character of Antonio Frau could have used a bit more sense of nihilism like that as well. His seemingly forced motives for killing young girls are (partly) what makes the film so implausible. Once freed from jail, where he did 15 years for murdering his girlfriend when he was a teenager, Antonio inherits an old and ramshackle motel in the middle of a prostitute-infested neighborhood. With his new wife working night shifts at the hospital, Antonio has plenty of free time to fulfill his new mission in life, namely the purification of sinners. He lures drug-addicted prostitutes to his motel and locks them up in room 6, where he rapes, humiliates and tortures them (talk about 'cleansing') before practicing his chainsaw dismembering skills on their scarcely dressed bodies. Antonio's modus operandi and motivations don't make the least bit of sense, but they do result in several nauseating and blood-soaked sequences. Totally gratuitous footage, of course, but suitably sadistic if you're interested in this type of cinema. But, like I mentioned before already, the film badly suffers from too many tedious moments as well. Antonio Frau really talks too much and insists on narrating all the things he writes down in his precious diary. Near the end of the movie and totally out of the blue, the script suddenly turns ambitious and actually attempts to make us believe the protagonist is a criminal mastermind, even more intelligent than the Jigsaw Killer or even Hannibal Lector. Yeah right. "H6: Diary of a Serial Killer" is nicely shot and benefices from macabre settings and a thoroughly grim ambiance. Fernando Acaso is fairly convincing as the twisted killer (at least during the first half of the film), Mariá José Bausá is bewitching as his voluptuous wife and Antonio Mayans (a Jess Franco regular!) makes a brief appearance as her lover. "H6" isn't nearly as sick and repulsive as some people claim, but nonetheless an interesting movie for Euro-horror fanatics to check out.