L'arte di morire

as I saw this flick in the middle of the night, that might have made it even more breathtaking, for that is what this is, breathtaking. The idea is brilliant and quite original, the idea that one can die at different levels before the final death, and that death, however terrifying, is the final liberation. But it is the idea I loved, not the film itself. Something is lost, the staging is simple and the murders are textbook. It in the end is nothing more then a successful slasher film. I wish someone would do a remake which was actually true to the idea. The only character which really works here is Ivan, a forlorn and neglected genius, slightly schizophrenic and well, charismatic. Unlike the others, who are simply uninteresting.

Spain has made good impression lately with movies such as The Nameless, tesis, Abre los ojos, Los amantes del circulo polar... Unfortunately el arte de morir fails to impress. it inspires boredom instead of inspiring awe and terror. The murders depicted (it's a slasher film) are uninteresting which is the worse defect for a film of that genre.

This movie was 1hr 42m of my life that I will never get back. It is singularly the most boring movie I have ever seen. The only suspense involved in watching this is the sensation that any time now, something is going to happen. Unfortunately, nothing ever does. The ending was wholly predictable. I can't think of a single redeeming quality for this flop of a film. It has zero substance. Every death in the film comes as expected. Watching fungus grow on the side of a dead tree in real time is more thrilling than this movie. Retirees eating soft foods give a greater sense of danger. To sum up, this movie was terrible.

Nice Spanish Thriller(supernatural)/Drama that's definitely worth watching,nice rental!!

It's your typical "Kill them one by one" movie (like Scream) where a bunch of young adults did something wrong in the past and have to pay for that now...

This is NOT a horror/Comedy,it breaths a dark,chilling atmosphere... It's very well directed,kind of strange and has good music(New Wave/Gothic).

Ideal to watch once on tv or for an overnight rental.

GO SEE THIS,YOU'LL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!!

See ya!

Not necessarily claiming "El Arte de Morir" is a blatant rip-off, but let's see if the following plot description rings any bells... Six friends hide a terrible secret together. Four years ago, during a camping trip, they wanted to teach their obnoxious buddy Nacho a lesson, but of course it ended in a fatal accident. A new police detective has reopened Nacho's unsolved disappearance case, but while the six are being cornered by him, a ruthless killer also shows up and eliminates them one by one.

Given the plot and the release a few years after the big US slasher hit, one can only assume this is a Spanish cash-in of "I Know what you did last Summer". As a seasoned slasher lover, I personally have no problem with rip-offs, but they have to be entertaining and full of bloody violence and nudity. Now, "I know what you did Last Summer" was already not a high-flyer in the genre, and this "El Arte de Morir" is even less so, despite the fact that director Álvaro Fernández Armero tries hard to add a few unexpected and supernatural twists at the end. Without success.

The film suffers from a few things where unfortunately many slashers miss the mark. The so-called "friends" can't stand each other at all, and they make one idiotic and illogical decision after another. There is hardly any tension, the attempts to mislead the viewer are a mess, the murders are uninspired, and the acting performances are not convincing at all. Especially the male actors are weak, while the Spanish beauties Maria Esteve and Lucia Jimenez still portray decent and believable characters.