The docuseries have become a phenomenon and if in August they were premiered on Netflix in The Laci Peterson Affair: The Perfect HusbandNow last September 6th on Prime Video, it arrived the spanish documentary How to hunt a monster. A 3-episode documentary series in which YouTuber and filmmaker Carles Tamayo discovers the solution to a complex case thanks to a small clue. It all begins when Tamayo receives a request from Lluís Gros, an old acquaintance sentenced to 24 years in prison for child abuse, to investigate his case in order to prove his innocence with a report. He accepts, but with a different objective that Gros does not know: to unmask the multiple cases of abuse and sexual assault of the accused that had not been revealed. In just a few days, the documentary has positioned itself as one of the most viewed on Prime Video.
The result of this investigation by Carles Tamayo is this documentary How to hunt a monster for which he had the support of Ramón Campos and Bambú in the production, responsible for other successes such as The Asunta Case, which can be seen on Netflix. This documentary represents a revolution for the genre because it does not resort to interviews with the perpetrator, the victim or people close to the case, but relies on images recorded by Gros himself with his consent. A path that the documentary has already opened The curse which impresses Prime Video users.
What happens in the documentary How to Hunt a Monster Prime Video?
The YouTuber had known Lluís Gros since he was a teenager, as he was one of the young people who worked in the cinema of the Catalan municipality of El Masnou that he ran. The crime for which Gros had been convicted was precisely for the abuse of minors in this El Masnou cinema.
The idea of making a documentary was born when one day Gros, who was free while waiting to enter prison,and offers to help Carles prove his innocence. As the investigation progresses, Carles Tamayo finds new clues about other cases of abuse and sexual assault committed by Gross and decides to use the documentary to uncover them. Lluís Gros had abused children not only in a Masnou cinema, but also in a children’s colony in the 80s and in a Catholic school run by a religious community in the 70s. Everything had been silenced.
It must be taken into account that Lluís Gros was still free and he could go out and come home without any problem, because the sentence had not yet been carried out. Gros walked the streets of that city like any other old man and no one seemed to realize the danger he represented. Therefore, he was not serving a 23-year prison sentence for sexual abuse of minors. Although it may seem incomprehensible, his entry into prison had been incomprehensibly awaited for months. Carles Tamayo decides to bring these clues to light on other cases to try to finally end up in prison and stop being a danger to society.
From the beginning of the investigation Gros agrees to be recorded at any time without caring what was seen of him because he was convinced that he had done nothing wrong. So there were no hidden cameras and Gros did not ask him to cut anything that Tamayo recorded. It was clear that he did not mind being recorded. On his first day, Gros video-called a young man he said he had helped with his studies, and what he heard made his hair stand on end and confirmed that Gros was not telling the truth and that, furthermore, being at Liberty, he continued to try to track down new victims.
YouTuber Carles Tamayo decided to continue his research unmask Gros once and for all. The goal now was to put Gros in prison and find out if there were other cases that the justice system was unaware of. To achieve this, he had the help of two other people to achieve his goal.
Carles Tamayo spent several months recording Gros and while investigating with his team and listening to many of his victims. Finally, the YouTuber managed to get the Provincial Court of Barcelona to issue a search and arrest warrant against the pedophile. Gros runs away, hides, but, once again, Tamayo, the only one who manages to talk to him after his escape, imagines an incredible cinematic plan to find Gros.
The best thing about the documentary is that it is recorded during the daily life of Gros and the viewer knows first hand their opinions, their way of thinking and arguing and their movements. Carles Tamayo manages to make known what the true personality of this criminal was, so that nothing can justify neither his words nor his actions. A documentary of only 3 episodes that surprises from the first minute and that revolutionizes the genre due to its original format and the consequences it had.
