Abrakadabra

Nov 1, 2018

1h 9m

★ 4.5

Overview

The Great Dante, a prestigious magician, accidentally dies during a risky magic trick. Thirty-five years later, his son Lorenzo, also a magician, presents a show at one of the city's most important theaters. From this point on, a series of murders will begin to occur that someone tries to pin on him. Lorenzo will have to find out who it is and why this person wants to implicate him

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Production Companies

Black Mandala

Feratum Films

Guante Negro Films

Abrakadabra Trailers

Cast

Young spectator

Clara Kovacic

Lorenzo Manzini

Germán Baudino

Juan Bautista Massolo

Dante Mancini

Raúl Gederlini

Antonella

María Eugenia Rigón

Dancer

Ivi Brickell

Daniel, a writer seeking seclusion to work on his new book, finds himself stranded at a rural bed and breakfast run by a strange and prudish young woman and her ailing, wheelchair-bound husband who remains shut in his room all day. As night falls, a psychotic, razor-wielding killer begins stalking the bed and breakfast, brutally slashing the throats of its most sex-crazed guests, whose bodies and luggage then mysteriously disappear the following morning...

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4.8

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5.0

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6.2

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6.6

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3.0

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6.0

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5.1

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7.3

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6.6

Torso

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