At an end-of-term-party at a girls' dormitory run by nuns, a girl is killed, & the killer is the
mysterious Tuno Negro, a maniac slaughtering bad students after all
end-of-term-exams & transmitting his deeds on the internet ...
Another term, another university, & Tuno Negro is not far behind
- as a girl (affectionately called 7-11 because she's always open for
you-know-what) marries her professor (to improve her grades I wonder),
she is killed right at her wedding. It's now up to (female) student Alex
(Silke) to find the killer, but who could it be ... Her boyfriend Edu
(Jorge Sanz), who isn't quite as faithful as he should be ? The cop
Trucha (Patxi Freytez), who she has a hot affair with ? Her
priest-professor (Eusebio Poncela), whose cathedral she's examining for her thesis ? Any
other student or professor ? After some more killings & false clues
(aren't internet transmissions great if you want to fake something ?) it
becomes clear the killer is none of the above but ... Alex, having
digged a bit too deep into the 16th century legend of the singing
student-order Tuno Negro - them being poor students who killed richer
but less talented ones for their university places - & taking the
identification just one step too far. In the end she even manages to
exit the cathedral - by now burning - the same way the original Tuno
Negros did some 500 years ago when they fled the inquisition ...
Sure it's a student-slasher & it does follow the standard formula
to a degree, but also, it isn't half bad, very stylishly done with the
gothic cathedral as a great backdrop that's actually woven into the
whodunit quite nicely, thus given the story another dimension not
normally available in such movies.
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