Today's suggestion:'THE BODY'

The Body is 2012 released Spanish thriller.It also known as El cuerpo in spanish. It is included in the genre of mystery thriller.The movie is directed by Oriol Paulo. And starring José Coronado, Hugo Silva and Belén Rueda in lead roles.The movie is remade into different languages including Korean.Also it is available in Hindi in the same name. An English remake is set to release in 2020 .The movie revolves around the missing of a body from a mortuary and the subsequent investigation lead by the police. The film goes through a mystery and thrilling mood. The story is about the incidents happening at one night. It includes so many thrilling moments and suspense.It has a total run time of 107 minutes

ABOUT

Mayka, a well-known businesswoman is dead and her body goes missing from the mortuary on the same night. The police inform her husband about this and his suspicious behavior makes doubt in the officers about Mayka's death. He forced to stay with the police in the hospital until the enquiry is over .And later at the night some strange events starts to occur and it turns his life upside down.What is the secret he hiding? what happened to Mayka? How did the body disappear?The movie discusses the answers.Also,background music played well in setting up the entire mysterious thrilling mood

Positives

1)Good direction: Always engaging and keeps a thrilling mood. The movie is telling about the events occurring at one night. The directed depicted the emotions and different layers of each character adequately.Also he succeed to maintain a horror mood at certain portion of the movie which was really thrilling.

2)Suspense buildup: A story with good suspense makes the viewer eager to know rest. It keeps suspense from the very beginning itself and a mysterious mood maintained throughout the movie. It helped in tension build.

3)The performance of all the actors was good. Their good performance helped has a major role in engaging people without getting bored.

4)Cinematography: As the movie is about a one-night thriller, cinematographer worked to give his hundred percentage. The night sequences, The settings, tone, everything was perfect.

Negatives

1)Cliche story is the main drawback. But it makes up this drawback with good suspense and direction.

2)Predictability increases as it approaches the climax.Although it will never make the movie boring.

Overall verdict

The movie is a perfectly engaging thriller. It will never make the audience bored or distracted from the story. Even though the story has drawbacks and cliche elements, we didn't feel it until the last, where the suspense is revealed. The direction, screenplay, performance of actors was all appreciable. This is much suggested for thriller lovers. But it could satisfy all types of audiences.

our rating: 8/10

The movie can be obtained from telegram groups and yify with subtitles. Also available in online streaming platforms.