REVIEW: NO MATARAS AKA CROSS THE LINE
NO MATARAS (2019) is David Victori’s first feature film as a director. He is the writer of the Spanish Films Second Origin (2015) and Son of Cain (2013), director and writer of award-winning short films worldwide, including Reaction (2008) The Guilt (2010) and Zero (2015) produced by Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender and also responsible of a TV Show called Flatline (2017).
He wrote NO MATARAS together with Clara Viola and Jordi Vallejo (El Inocente).
The main star is Mario Casas, who plays the role of Dani, a young man who has just lost his father and his mission in life as he was responsible for his care. His life is a boring one and one day, as he was considering going into adventure, meets a girl in a diner. This is going to be nothing, but trouble and he will be involved in serious crime.
I quite like the movie, for the first time, I can say Mario Casas was fantastic and even though of a quiet beginning the movie is really thrilling. Amazingly built it is a story that will keep you awake and in tension. There are some good twisting plots.
It was available on some VOD platforms but now it seems to have been canceled. I hope soon it will be up again.
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Elena Anele is the woman in charge of SPANISHFEAR.COM, Horror Rises from Spain and Un Fan de Paul Naschy . A literature and cinema researcher, finishing her postgraduate studies with a thesis about the mystic filmmaker José Val del Omar. She has published in different media and books as Fangoria or Hidden Horror. She has also been in charge of several translations including Javier Trujillo’s complete works, La Mano Film Fest, The Man who Saw Frankenstein Cry and many more.
