Timecrimes (2007)

 

There's something to be said for networking.  Even in the blogosphere as well as on Letterboxd networking pays off.  Welcome to story time with Cheeks DaBelly.  If you are reading this on blogger, I can also be found on letterboxd here:  https://letterboxd.com/CheeksDaBelly/ and if you are reading this one letterboxd I also have a blog which is here: http://themanholecover.blogspot.com/ .  For most of the year, the posts on my blog are few and far between but for one month every year, The Man Hole is alive with activity.  That month is October.  And the reason for all the activity, or another way of asking it is to say what's causing all dis?  Well, that's easy, October brings with it the best time of year, Halloween, and to celebrate I usually contribute to The Countdown to Halloween on blogger.  I try to watch as many horror films as I can and review them.  This year, I broke my own record with posting 64 films for the month.  That's more than two movie reviews a day.

 

I have a few regular readers who have been around for several Halloween's.  One of them being Caffeinated Joe.  You can find him here: https://wings1295.tumblr.com/  .  During this years countdown Joe asked me if I had seen Timecrimes.  I had not seen it and Joe recommended I check it out.  So here I am a month later and I can say I have now rectified that issue and I have indeed watched Timecrimes and I will give my review.  First and foremost Timecrimes is a Spanish language horror film about a man who time travels an hour into the past.  And then keeps doing it causing many different versions of himself.  Every time he does so his time traveling crimes or Timecrimes increase.

 

I'm a sucker for a good time travel flick and this is no exception.  Trimecrimes was written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo who has also contributed to two horror anthologies V/H/S: Viral and The ABC's of Death.  Both stories were one of the better stories in both of the films.  Even though this is a foreign language film for me, I took two years of Spanish way back when I was in high school.  Now, while I wasn't great with the language, even back then, I still retained enough that with the movie being subtitled, I still didn't find myself referring to the subtitles as much as I would if the film was Japanese or Korean.  Most of those I end up reading more than I do watching a film which is why to this day I have several horror films from Asia that I still have not seen.  Now I'm not sure if the film was supposed to have some element of a dark comedy but I couldn't help have a huge smile on my face for nearly the entire time.  Is it a perfect time travel movie?  No, but it sure does feel close to it.  I thank Joe for suggesting this one.  I'll give this four walkie talkies out of five.

 

 

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