Arrebato

'Arrebato' is the first film by Iván Zulueta, who happens to the creative guy behind the psychedelic album art of Contrabando (1968), a power-pop classic by Spanish band Los Brincos. When you peep the cover art, you're sure that the creative genius is not an ordinary person. The result of the thought process is Zulueta's feature as becomes one with the medium, enjoys the ecstasy and immersing oneself in this trip. It is a tremendously subjugating work, a suffocating, claustrophobic to film during drug abuse. The contextualization (late 70s) and the hypnotic setting adds to the terror as the characters are victims of their own personal demons and constantly fuelled by sex, heroine and paranoia. A visionary junkie in the super 8 era, narrated as an epistolary story by Lovecraft, this gem is an experimental exercise in metacinema. Zulueta achieves moments of great artistic inspiration, supported by a suffocating, depressing cinematography that highlights the gloomy environments that the characters in the film inhabit. I could say that it is like a Spanish David Lynch with Bava-esque atmosphere, while the plot development and twists predates Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983) and Vernon Zimmerman's Fade to Black (1980). It checks all the boxes in transmitting the despair, generally unpleasant, in a credible and distressing way.

This might sound very clichéd, but ARREBATO (RAPTURE) is not a cinema for everyone. Be cautious as it will put you off.

Get hold of it if you can. Best vampires movie ever without even showing any teeth...

If you thing you are committed to your work, see the protagonist of this movie.

The director had to adapt to stern constrains in number of characters and locales and still he came up with a modern classic, catching the spirit of the "movida madrileña" ( a musical an cultural boom in Madrid eighties) and providing a metaphor for the trail of wasted talent this outburst leave, because of drugs, diversion and basic human frailty. In my personal top 5 Spanish movies of all time.

Writing this review after watching movie just now. It was a slow,bizarre, unexpected and confused thrill feeling in the end.

Up to 1 hour 30 minutes, i was wondering what is the movie about. Last 30 minutes was making sense or a story or screenplay.

It was a kind of slow paced mystery,supernatural and finally let u guess movie.

I felt good but not a mystery or thriller or supernatural genre.

It is food for movie critics and movie lovers( I am not Either)

Good one but not for Mystery/Thriller entertainment lovers.

Arrebato by Ivan Zulueta is a wonderful, strange movie. The desire and the magic of cinema full the screen. This extremely beautiful film describes clearly the darkness state of things, the joy and pain of living, taking drugs, being and loving the cinema. A little big jewel to feel.

From initial ridicule (despite the official recommendation as a quality feature) to flat-out praise, it took more than twenty years to realize the seminal influence of this film on Spanish production, from Almodovar onwards. It draws many influences from the Warhol-esque New York underground scene but has tremendous scenes.

Whoever wants to understand what Betty Boop was all about, must see Cecilia Roth dance scene, it is fabulous.

Contains a lot of drug addiction references, which should be seen as an analogy to the addiction to capturing moving pictures and watching them. The only way for a film director to get rid of the latter is to dissolve into the industry.