Asesina como puedas
2013 · 3m · España
Directed by David Díaz
Genres: dark comedy, horror, thriller
Tones: absurdist, dark, darkly comic
Three friends waiting to be picked up for a party fall into the hands of a serial killer who hypnotises them into killing each other because he is indisposed.
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A serial killer too lazy to kill, so he just... outsources it? That's the kind of absurdist inversion that should not work but absolutely does—horror comedy that doesn't genuflect to either genre, just watches three friends hypnotized into murdering each other while a guy takes a nap. Genuinely subversive premise masquerading as a joke.
Díaz operates within the Spanish horror-grotesque tradition but inverts its moral architecture; the three-minute constraint forces a formal elegance in how the hypnotic logic unfolds, each beat precisely calibrated between comedy and dread. It's a small film that understands genre syntax well enough to dismantle it.
The entire film hinges on the hypnotic voice—that specific tonal choice of making the killer sound almost *bored* rather than menacing—and it's the decision that transforms what could be a gimmick into something genuinely unsettling and funny. Three minutes and minimal effects, but that vocal performance is doing all the heavy lifting.