Timecrimes is about a man who has moved into a remote villa in Spain with his wife. He spies a young lady getting naked out near the woods and tells his wife he is going for a walk. Upon finding the lady, he realizes she is unconscious and he gets stabbed in the arm by a weirdo with pink bandages wrapped around his face. Fleeing the pink mummy, the man (Hector) ends up in the lab of a scientist who guides him to safety from his assailant. The machine Hector hides in winds up being a time machine, and he is thrust one hour into the past. Then things start getting really crazy.
This is just a fun, sometimes intense, romp with time travel. Every time Hector goes back in time a new wrinkle is added to the plot and the coincidences begin piling up. I can't say much more without spoiling a very cool movie but the way it all plays out is tragically perfect. Nacho Vigalando made his feature length debut with this one and it is low budget sci-fi thriller done right. Even during sequences that could get confusing, everything is well established and easy to follow. Whenever you get into time travel, things could get sticky but Vigalando steers clear of those problems.
I can't really say this is a horror movie even though the pink mummy is certainly an intense presence in the movie. It is well worth the ride if you decide to give it a watch.
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