Revised synopsis revealed
Jaume Balagueró is moving forward on a non-Rec related film entitled Flatmate. This solo effort, without the aid of Rec‘s Paco Plaza, is currently in pre-production for Filmax and we’ve received word of the first actor to join the cast: LuÃs Tossar
Tossar was recently seen in Spain in last year’s Cell 211. In addition to this morsel of news, here’s an updated synopsis, different than the one we posted a few months back:
We all know who our friends are but what about our acquaintances? Those people who play a small part in our everyday lives, how well do we really know them? And how well do they know us?
Marcos works as a doorman in a Barcelona apartment building. Happiness eludes him and he feels the need to reaffirm his reasons for living on a daily basis.
He goes about his day to day work mainly unnoticed by the residents of the building, but he pays close attention to them. He knows all the intimate details of their lives, everything about them, especially one of them. Clara King is a happy-go-lucky young woman, who always looks on the positive side of things. Her cheery attitude to life makes Marcos’ skin crawl. He won’t be happy until he has wiped that smile of her face once and for all, because Marcos feeds off other people’s pain. He delights in the unhappiness and anguish of others and he loves nothing more than to plant the seed of misery and watch it grow.
In Clara he has found the perfect target, and he will go to extreme lengths to make her life miserable. But Marcos is starting to get a bit too cocky, and soon his carefully thought out plans will start to unravel… Luckily for him, he has one last ace up his sleeve.
Alberto Marini penned the script. He also wrote Romasanta and To Let.
Source: Shock Till You Drop
