Der Kreuzmörder
(2012)
Regisseur:
Rafa LaraSchauspieler:
Angélica Aragón, Ilean Almaguer, Tomás Goros, Alberto Guerra, Jimena Guerra, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Guillermo Iván, Carlos Padilla, Alejandro Tommasi, Luis Felipe TovarIn Mexico City ermordet ein Serientäter junge Frauen und schnitzt ihnen ein Kreuz ins Fleisch. Die Presse hat ihm deshalb schon den Spitznamen Kreuzmörder verpasst. Hinter den Taten steckt ein verstörter junger Mann, der einst als Knabe in die Hände eines Sextäters im Priestergewand geriet. Nun schwankt der Psychopath ständig zwischen Reue und Wahnsinn und scheint sich seit neuestem sogar ernsthaft verliebt zu haben. Ein trinkfester Cop kommt ihm auf die Spur und versucht, einen weiteren Mord zu verhindern.
Ein Killer, der eigentlich selbst ein Opfer ist, und an dessen Identität und Motiv es von vorn herein keine Zweifel gibt, schraubt die ohnehin nicht gerade niedrige Mordrate Mexikos in neue Höhen in diesem trotzdem durchweg spannenden und handwerklich kompetent gemachten Horrorthriller. Die Killaktionen werden nicht allzu drastisch ausgewalzt, dafür interessiert sich der Film auch für den Charakter des Strafverfolgers und mancher seiner Nebenfiguren. Gute Wahl für Genrefreunde.
In Mexico City, the police department finds the eleventh victim of the serial-killer known as The Cross Killer. The efficient but alcoholic Detective Garcia is assigned by the Public Prosecutor to hunt down the serial-killer and the coroner disclose his profile, telling that he is a rapist, misogynist, sadistic and necrophilic killer that carves a cross on the back of teenagers. The disturbed street artist Victor that is The Cross Killer discloses to a victim that when he was twelve years old, in his hometown San Jose del Monte, his pious mother caught him masturbating and delivered him to the Priest Jose. The pedophile priest raped him, showing the darkness with the successive abuses and Victor has been listening to demons since then. When Victor meets the teenager Gabriela, he falls in love with her and believes that she is an angel. But he has never respected The Fifth Commandment and Gabriela is convinced by Victor to go with him to the place where he lives to see a painting.
In Mexico City, the police department finds the eleventh victim of the serial-killer known as The Cross Killer. The efficient but alcoholic Detective Garcia is assigned by the Public Prosecutor to hunt down the serial-killer and the coroner disclose his profile, telling that he is a rapist, misogynist, sadistic and necrophilic killer that carves a cross on the back of teenagers. The disturbed street artist Victor that is The Cross Killer discloses to a victim that when he was twelve years old, in his hometown San Jose del Monte, his pious mother caught him masturbating and delivered him to the Priest Jose. The pedophile priest raped him, showing the darkness with the successive abuses and Victor has been listening to demons since then. When Victor meets the teenager Gabriela, he falls in love with her and believes that she is an angel. But he has never respected The Fifth Commandment and Gabriela is convinced by Victor to go with him to the place where he lives to see a painting.