It premiered on the platform on September 6, and has been the talk of the town on social media. Even so, in case you haven’t heard of it yet, we’ll tell you why you should give this made-in-Spain documentary on Prime Video a chance.
If you have a subscription to Amazon’s streaming platform, you already have a pass to watch ‘How to Hunt a Monster’, a documentary by YouTuber Carles Tamayo, produced by Bambú Producciones and with a script by Ramón Campos.
Throughout its three episodes, we follow the story of a 76-year-old man, Luis Groswho has been accused and also convicted of crimes of sexual abuse of minors. Despite this history, the man continues to lead a normal life in Barcelona, ​​having managed to escape from prison. This is the starting point of the documentary. Why is he still free and why are there no further consequences for what he has done?
Carles Tamayo, a journalist and YouTube video creator with more than 700,000 subscribers on the platform, has the opportunity here to take his investigative and cinematographic skills to a new level, which Prime Video allows him to do. With other investigative work under his belt in which he infiltrates cults and uncovers scams, Tamayo is here dedicated to piecing together the real story behind Gros, which will ultimately lead to his arrest (not a spoiler; the arrest took place on May 19, 2022).
And this is where the twist and novelty that the documentary proposes lies, which separates it from other works of the quintessential genre of recent years: true crime. Unlike most series or documentaries of this type, in which the story of a consummated event is recreated or told, in this work by Tamayo for Prime Video we see the events unfold in real time.
And it is precisely as the investigation is carried out that new crimes are revealed that the Police themselves were unaware of, and Tamayo’s work with the cameras ends up being decisive in facilitating his arrest by the Mossos.
And justice was done
While other true crimes often leave a bad taste in the mouth, thinking about how things could have been done differently and other deaths or attacks could have been avoided, this Spanish documentary is gratifying because it is precisely during and through its making that justice is finally done. The story ends with the arrest of a paedophile who is now sentenced to 23 years and 8 months in prison.
A satisfactory conclusion that, nevertheless, closes a story full of indignation and incomprehension towards what happened between this man and the judicial system, since he had managed to remain free and lead a normal life despite his crimes, and if it were not for the documentary, perhaps he would remain that way.
That is why you have to give this project a chance, which, in any case, with only three chapters will not take up much of your time, and which is already creating a buzz at the international level. internationalIt promises to be an important contribution to true crime in Spain, along with Daniel Sancho’s documentary, which will also be released soon.
