Welcome to the third of the chronicles that we will be dedicating day after day to the 55th edition of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival. We continue.’dead stream‘ – Every year there is a film that shows that ‘found footage’ is not dead yet. This year would be the debut feature from Joseph Winter and Vanessa Winter, a hilarious and creative horror comedy that works like a shot for the duration of the (fake) direct. A bare-chested socio-festive entertainment starring Joseph Winter himself, who eats the screen (and whatever else is needed). A delight with echoes of Sam Raimi’s ‘Terrifyingly Dead’ that uses a satire about influencers to mix humor and scares in equal parts. Must see. ******** ‘the five devils‘ – Very correct French melodrama that makes use of a fantastic subterfuge to “unravel” an already tangled plot that never ends up taking flight. A hometown mystery so obviously telegraphed that even the many unthreaded stitches in its development annoy. And it is that the film always stays within the planned channels, both at a narrative and plot level, and lacks any destabilizing element apart from the attractive and solvent presence of Adle Exarchopoulos. *****’Saloum‘ – Impossible not to think of ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ when it comes to a film with two well-differentiated halves, the second of which is clearly fantastic. After a spectacular start, the film ends up deflating to end up offering less than it seemed at first. Although at least it serves to take the registration of its director, Jean Luc Herbulot. It is seen, with pleasure, although it is evident that its premise was for something bigger than what it ends up being: Festival cannon meat. ******’Unicorn Wars‘ – Alberto Vzquez’s revival is a ‘Happy Tree Friends’ at the time of ‘Full Metal Jacket’. A pity that it costs so much to carry out projects like this, and that this can be noticed so much in its final result. An exquisitely animated film that is easy to fall in love with, but that seems to have been made “in a snag”. A rough sum of scenes/moments not always opportune before a movie with a script carved in stone. A somewhat disjointed and irregular work that, although adorably cruel, does not quite hit us with its good intentions. *******Continue… By Juan Pairet Iglesias
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