Estigma

This is a film that borrows tropes from other films but in the end lacks any kind of verve to sustain viewer interest. It is beautifully lensed, with creative shots and a dream-like cinematography--the focus is on imagery rather than narrative, tell-tell signs of a Giallo film. And yet, this isn't a Giallo, despite numerous stylistic flourishes associated with the genre. Some half-baked narrative about a psychic teenager who believes he can kill with his thoughts and pursues his older brother's girlfriend. It's slow moving by today's standards, taking it's time to develop characters (which is nice), but ultimately the movie doesn't deliver the goods. Others have remarked about the modest gore, which didn't help things, but this wasn't directed by Fulci or Argento. The movie veers between a coming-of-age drama, a thriller, a Giallo, and an art film, but ultimately can't make up its mind what it wants to be, so it's nothing.

Just an over long mess that remains a curio of Spanish Cinema, a movie that is constructed as a patchwork of other, more interesting films.