Ángel Negro
4.6 /10 1 Votes4.6
Director Jorge Olguin Genres Horror, World cinema Writer Jorge Olguin Language Spanish | 4.4/10 IMDb Duration Country Chile | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 31, 2000 (2000-10-31) Cast (Angel Cruz), Álvaro Morales (Gabriel Echeverría), Andrea Freund (Carolina viuda de Ferrer), Juan Pablo Bastidas (Miguel Ferrer), Fernando Gallardo (Juez Soto)Similar movies Set in Chile, Horror movies Tagline She\'s a Devil of an Angel... and she\'ll scare the HELL out of you!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ángel Negro ("Black Angel") is a 2000 Chilean slasher film written and directed by Jorge Olguín. Ángel Negro is the first Chilean horror film. After a mysterious accident, a group of friends is hunted down by a masked killer.
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Plot
In 1990, six friends celebrate their graduation. The party comes to a shocking conclusion when one of them, Angel, falls to her death. Ten years later, two of the people who attended the party show up dead in Miguel's morgue, where he works as a medical examiner. Convinced that Angel has come back for vengeance, he alerts Carolina. Through flashbacks, the film reveals that Miguel had a relationship with Angel, who was bullied and unaccepted by her peers. Miguel and Carolina try to survive the masked killer, and Carolina works to uncover what really happened the day that Angel died.
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Production
Director Jorge Olguín wanted to make a homage to his favorite filmmakers, John Carpenter and Dario Argento. He decided to use all the standard giallo and slasher film tropes and cliches but with a unique Latin American flavor. Shooting took 20 days and was in Santiago.
Release
Ángel Negro premiered on October 31, 2000, and it entered wide release in Chile on November 1, 2000. Troma Entertainment released it on DVD in the United States on October 25, 2003.
Reception
Mike Long of DVD Talk rated it 1/5 stars and called it "dull, pointless, and unoriginal." David Johnson of DVD Verdict wrote that the film "is not piss-poor by any means, but it certainly won't change the way you look at horror movies."