TIMECRIMES (DVD Review) - 11/5/09

This tricky Spanish Sci-Fi come horror thriller shows the inherent dangers of time travel and why the path taken does not necessarily mean it is the right one. Writer & Director Nacho Vigalondo looks like one to watch as things start to get messier and messier as events spiral out of control in this tautly directed and highly efficient but concise tale. Unfortunately this sly story is in Spanish with English Subtitles so therefore is being remade in 2011 - As ever Hollywood rips off the best stuff and remakes it for it's own purposes!

Hector is looking through his binoculars and chances to see a young woman taking her shirt off in the woods behind his house. Deciding to investigate what is going on he searches the woods and is stabbed by a scissor wielding assailant but manages to escape, until he realises he is being followed. Breaking into a local building things start to get really weird sending Hector on a journey he does not really want to make.