

Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.
Production
Garish neon production design that reeks of cheap perfume and regret.
Acting
Mario Casas commits fully to pathetic ambition; you root for the loser.
Direction
Cabezas keeps tonal chaos somehow coherent—barely.

Director
Paco Cabezas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paco Cabezas later directed episodes of Penny Dreadful and The Strain—this film's pulp sensibility clearly got him hired.
Neon Flesh arrived during Spain's 'cine quinqui' revival, where filmmakers romanticized working-class criminals through hyper-stylized violence that critics called 'poverty porn with a playlist.'