Breaking out with "Cold Sweat"
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Hyperbolic film reviewers sometimes like to describe movies as “explosive,” but COLD SWEAT is one to which that description applies. And that’s not just because the Argentinean film (out this week on DVD from Dark Sky Films and MPI) has proven to be a breakout success for its director/co-writer, Adrián García Bogliano, who talked about its creation with Fango.
COLD SWEAT focuses on Román (Facundo Espinosa), a guy who has tracked his missing ex-girlfriend to a nondescript house in an urban neighborhood. What he finds when he goes inside, however, is a pair of old men—survivors of the brutal political regime that terrorized Argentina during the ’70s—who have lured a succession of unwitting young woman inside, and have been performing sadistic experiments involving explosives on them. The villains’ unique characterizations lend the film a political undertone that’s unique among fright fare—and, as Bogliano tells us, in his country’s film output as well.
