Pulsión sangrienta
2014 · 13m · España
Directed by Gerard Tusquellas Serra
Genres: coming-of-age, crime, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
Marc comes from a happy, historic family of serial killers whose parents assume continuation of tradition, while Marc fears never feeling the bloody urge that defines a good murderer. On turning 18, Marc must kill a first victim and reveal the truth.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A coming-of-age premise that inverts every sentimental beat—instead of finding yourself, Marc has to *perform* becoming a killer in a family business that treats murder like a hereditary profession. The film swings for the absurdist throat and actually lands it, which is rare enough that most scouts will pass and miss the point entirely.
Tusquellas Serra constructs a darkly comedic family portrait with the formal precision of a gothic melodrama, using the domestic space and intergenerational ritual to interrogate what we inherit and refuse; it sits comfortably in a lineage of Ealing-meets-Haneke provocation.
The film's entire engine turns on the decision to play Marc's existential dread—his fear of *not* being a killer—with genuine pathos underneath the comedy, which means the cast has to sell emotional stakes for an impossible premise, and that single tonal calibration is what makes a 13-minute premise about killer inheritance actually land as something moving.