Hey, guys. Today I'll show you a horror film: "Cadaver"!
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care! The movie begins by showing a painting of
what appears to be the bloody head of a beheaded sheep. It is placed on a posh plate,
including a knife and fork in the sides. Inside a massive house, kids are shown running around
the corridor and the stairs, scavenging abandoned clothes trashed on the floor.
The scene is a landscape of a ruined city. The fogs are forming all over the worn-out
buildings that make them hard to see. The people are seen to be in extreme danger,
and are only taking advantage of what was left in the ruined city. A child goes to one of the
buildings alone; her parents are looking for her; and they find her staring through an opened
door. They realize that someone in that room has hung herself and taken her own life.
It is revealed that a nuclear disaster is what hit this city. Thousands of newspapers are trashed on
the streets, and the headlines say "nuclear disaster." We can see that the people debate
whether this "incident" is a nuclear "accident" or intentional. At the start of the movie,
this is the question that engages the viewers to think about what is in the story.
One day, Leonora wakes up from one of the buildings. She goes to a room to check if
her daughter, Alice, is safe. Leonora notices that the bed seems empty, as she wonders where
her daughter has gone. To make sure of it, she pulls the blanket and sees nothing.
Leonora is starting to become paranoid, and starts screaming the name "Alice" repeatedly.
This lady wakes up again, implying that all of what happened was only her dream.
We can now see that this movie has a dystopian setup of a society. The main characters
and the environment are manifesting remnants of trauma and tragedy.
Leonora continues to check if Alice is in the room. Unlike in the dream, Alice is present,
and she says that she has heard things again. Her mother starts to comfort her to sleep. However,
Alice starts being frightened again, when they hear a loud, thumping noise
just outside their sanctuary. Leonora holds Alice tight to make sure that she is okay.
One morning, a person is screaming throughout the city, and strangely inviting for a theater
play that is coming in the city soon. All of the viewers will have a free meal if
they decide to go. Being curious about it, Leonora asks the person how on earth that
a theater play would happen in the middle of a ruined city. The person says that it
is because Mathias is kind, and wants people to have fun despite the frightening times.
Leonora’s husband is Jacob. They are both suspicious about the theater play. Jacob
says that it cannot happen because it does not add up. On the other hand,
Leonora thinks that this might be a good thing. This is the strangest part of the movie. Why is
there A theater play in the middle of a ruined, poverty-stricken city? Suddenly, balloons, food,
and entertainment are happening in a dystopian world. How strange and peculiar is that?
Later on, the couple agreed that they should go to the show despite the fishiness of it.
That same night, they go to the mansion where it is located. At first, one of the staff does
not allow Alice inside, because she is a child. But Mathias, the show master, says that Alice
could be an exemption. They are overwhelmed by the massiveness of the house. They realize that
it is nowhere the size of their sanctuary. As they are having dinner together, Mathias goes
to the platform and delivers a speech. He welcomes all the people inside the building by saying,
"Welcome to the theater!". He says that the play will not happen on the stage,
with no auditorium and elevated seats. Mathias says that the whole stage is the hotel they are
inside. Mathias gives them masks of the color gold, and says that it is for the audience.
All the audiences put their masks on, and get to choose which character they are going to follow.
Leonora asks Alice who she wants to follow; Alice says she wants to follow Rakel. The three
of them now start strolling inside the hotel, mesmerized by the acting of the characters.
After going through the corridors, they find Rakel inside Mathias' room. They have some arguments.
Like what Mathias has said, we can see that this theater play is not your usual show. Instead of
sitting in a chair, the audience must move to see what is happening on the whole show. This is what
makes the plot of the film "Cadaver" unique. Inside the room, it seems like Rakel wants to be
reunited with Mathias. However, Mathias makes it clear that their relationship is already over.
Jacob says that Alice should follow Rakel throughout the whole play. However,
Alice is starting to be consumed by the wave. She is now strolling by herself. One instance,
while Jacob and Leonora are having a conversation, Alice starts to go
missing. The parents are now distressed, and start looking for their daughter.
Inside one room, they hear their daughter's scream. Jacob thinks that it is not funny anymore;
that is why he breaks one of the doors to look for Alice. While finding Alice, they realize
that Kathrine, the one they had dinner together with, has missing family members too; which is
why they teamed up together to look for them. They suspect that their missing family members
might be in Rakel's room on the fourth floor, room five. While inside, they go separate ways
to find them. However, not long after, Kathrine disappears too; and only one earring is left of
her. Here are the questions. Are the missing people all part of the show? Or just like what
Jacob is suspecting, is there something off with this theater play? We are to find out why.
To look for help, they ask some of the audience if they see their daughter Alice. Although,
because they got rid of their masks, the people think that they are actors and actresses, that is
why they are not helping them. Similarly, while the married couple is talking in the corridor,
one actress thinks that they are the audience because they are unmasked.
Still looking for Alice, they see the stuffed toy of hers lying on the ground. And in that
same room, they see Lars, the husband of Kathrine, asking for help. They notice that
the room is full of clothes. There are so many piling up that they are forming mountains of
different garments. Leonora looks through the clothes; and she finds her daughter's
red dress, just lying on the ground. Jacob inspects Alice's stuffed toy that
is stained with blood. He tastes the blood, and Jacob says that it is sweet and only fake blood.
They think that maybe that all of these are only part of the show. Still, they look for
their daughter. They find that the people with surgical masks are suspicious, because they are
the ones dumping and burning the clothes. They go down to the hotel to look for more. Not
long after, an actor wearing white clothes comes after Jacob, and puts a knife on his throat. Jacob
fights him and tells Leonor to run. Leonor escapes the scene as the actor is chasing her. She goes to
hide inside a closet, the actor is about to find her; but a woman says that all the actors are
needed in the ballroom. Whether this show is real or not, it is surely getting into the audiences'
nerves. Leonor does not think of this as a harmless show anymore. This feature in a movie
is good; it is like putting the film watchers in the characters' shoes, both as audiences.
Leonor goes to the meeting of the actors and actresses. She finds out that Kathrine is also
one of the actresses and not the audience. Leonor has been seeing and hearing her daughter Alice in
her imagination. Her mind is starting to collapse, as she cannot get Alice out of her mind. All she
wants is to find her daughter; but the only dimension she finds Alice in is solely in her
mind. The second batch of the show's viewers is starting to come inside the hotel. Leonor finds
herself looking at the same painting of a beheaded sheep inside different rooms all over again.
Being curious about it, she goes near it to inspect it. Leonor is touching it to make
sure that there is not something behind it. In the lower part of the painting, she sees
a silver button, immediately pushing it. It is a trap. As soon as she pushes it,
the floor below her collapses, and she is now stuck underground. In the underground,
Leonor sees the people with surgical masks. She sneakily follows one of the masked men.
She realizes that behind all the paintings she has been suspecting of before, is this place.
This is where some of the staff work in the dark; and she is about to find out what they are doing
inside this dim-lighted and crowded area. Leonor finds the end of the place. Unlike the
other area, this one is well lit. She sneakily peeks; and she sees the people with the surgical
masks. All of their clothes seem to be stained with blood. Leonor also sees them carrying naked,
unconscious bodies. She thinks that these are the audiences that were killed by the staff.
Some of the masked men are seen chopping human body parts. This explains why their uniforms are
full of blood. Their job is to make sure that the body parts are well chopped.
Leonor cannot bother to look at them anymore, worrying about her husband and daughter. Inside
her mind, they might be dead and killed by these people. This is the rising action of
the film. It is revealed that the show has a bloody and gory side to it. The
revelations that we will find out later will explain why this film is called "horror." It
makes the viewers choke on their own saliva. Going away to the bloody place, Leonor bumps into
Lars. As soon as they bump into each other, Lars knocks Leonor down. Lars pulls her unconscious
body into a crowded room. Not long after that incident, Leonor finds that her feet and hands are
tied with rope while hanging upside down. Mathias looks her in the eye and says, "Join us!" Mathias
says that Leonor is the longest person who has survived the theater play. Leonor realizes that
the hotel has so much food despite the famine, because they are eating all the human audience.
Leonor begs Matias to let her go so she can be with her family. Leonor refuses the invitation
of Mathias to join their team. He says it is a shame because her husband, Jacob, accepted the
invitation and understood their situation. Mathias pulls inside his suit the red dress of Alice. He
apologizes and says that he did not mean to take Alice away from her. As soon as Alice sees the
dress, she becomes distressed; and she asks him where he put her daughter. Mathias orders Lars
to finish off Alice. However, as he is about to cut her throat, Jacob comes into the scene.
Jacob says to Lars that he will try to convince his wife to join the team. He says to Leonor that
they can do so many things in the hotel, unlike the outside world, wherein they barely eat food.
Leonor insists that she will not join the hotel. That is why Jacob gives up, and requests Lars if
he could make the killing. Lars gives the knife to Jacob for him to kill his wife. Little does
he know, Jacob lunges at him and punches him in the face, making him touch the floor!
Jacob then immediately uses the knife to free his wife from the rope. However,
Lars stabs Jacob from behind, leaving him dying. After he stabs Jacob, he immediately
goes to Leonor to be his next target. To protect herself, Leonor bites Lars' wrist,
and pushes him to the sharp hook, leaving him dead and with a big hole around his stomach.
This scene explains that even when they get to be murderers, some of the people, like Lars,
still join the hotel for the sake of their family. Lars showed that he joined the hotel
to give her family a much more comfortable life. The film is trying to say that, in a dystopian,
famine-stricken society, even good people can do bad things for them to survive.
Leonor goes to Mathias, and threatens him to expose him to the new audience if he does not
tell her where Alice is. However, all the audience thinks this is only a play. Mathias whispers to
her that he is glad that he finally joined the theater. Leonor gets an idea to convince
the audience that she is telling the truth. Using her acting skills, she wants to make the audience
intrigued by her, follow her character, and show them where they chop the people.
While acting, all of the audience follow Leonor. Mathias gets distressed, and orders the team to
stop them. Leonor is successful in her plan. All of the audience, including Kathrine and
the other actor, sees for the first time the butcher room. All of them rush to Mathias to
blame him. After all this time, the other actors and actresses did not know that they were killing
people. Leonor asks Mathias where Alice is, because she knows that she is not dead yet.
Suddenly coming into the scene, Rakel stabs Mathias in the stomach. Mathias says that he
kept Alice alive, because she reminds him of her late daughter. Mathias is slowly dying,
and gets picked up by the people. In the end, Leonor is reunited with her daughter,
Alice. This time, it is not her imagination anymore. Knowing that she is real, she hugs
her and makes sure that Mathias and all the other bad people will never separate them again.
They go outside the hotel, and go back to the place where they belong.
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