Re: THE COFFEE TABLE (no spoilers)

On 1/25/2025 2:10 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:

moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

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To celebrate their new baby, a middle-aged couple purchases some elegant
furniture.  THE COFFEE TABLE (Tubi, Ama$on) is a pitch-black horror
comedy from Spain.  Disappointingly, its under-90 minutes delivers far
more chutzpah than invention ...seemingly satisfied that a hellishly
shocking context makes any subsequent unawareness of it automatically
funny.  I waited for payoffs that never came.  Not recommended.

 It’s clearly a movie I would never watch, but I was intrigued by your
comments so I read the plot summary on Wikipedia. And I have to say my
reaction to the plot summary is almost exactly what you wrote. There was no
payoff and horrible events were supposed to be amusing simply because they
were too awful to contemplate. Reading about this movie was somewhat
interesting, but the thought of seeing it is…too awful to contemplate.

Otoh, it may be that we are both just irredeemably unhip...
The movie's well-crafted enough that I kept thinking some finale might ride in.  Sounds as though that Wiki entry could've saved me 90 minutes.