Welcome to the eighth of the chronicles that we will be dedicating day after day to the 55th edition of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival. We continue.’the stranger‘ – Nobody better than Maika Monroe to star in this stimulating psychological thriller elaborated with care and elegance. As if that young woman from ‘It Follows’ had grown up and she was now obsessed with someone “following her”. The film, of course, plays with the doubt about whether or not it is correct, it must be said, in an atmospheric story built calmly and calmly through small daily brushstrokes, dialogues in Romanian and an uncomfortable absence “of scares”. She pity that yes, at the last moment the film “cracked”. *******’Project Wolf Hunting‘ – Kind of a (failed) crossover between ‘Con Air’, ‘Virus’ and ‘Universal Soldier’ that ends up being as unexciting as ‘REC 4: Apocalypse’ was. A film that begins promising to then drown with so much gratuitous fake blood and such disposable characters. Poorly developed and resolved, worse shot and edited, it is a rough and clumsy nonsense, uninspired and even less creative whose two hours of duration end up becoming heavy, repetitive and tiresome. **** ‘The girl of the communion‘ – Commercial horror film that lives by and for “the scares” (or ‘jumpscares’, as the cool say), some of them quite successful. Resulting film that does not pretend to invent the wheel, effective in short distances and that within what it proposes, within the genre to which it is ascribed without dissimulation or shame, it fulfills the measure of the public that does not demand more or less. Could you ask for more? Of course, that is not missing. But what you get is what you get, no more, no less. ******’Nocebo‘ – With a slight shift in focus, its first hour could pass for a Fox Searchlight dramedy. Not that it is, but it could. But in its last 20 minutes, in a seen and not seen, and after a jog that breaks the waist of the film itself, it becomes a desktop thriller with a message so underlined that it hurts. A film conceived as the gimmicky and “trick” thriller that should not be with which Lorcan Finnegan has not known what to do. A flight forward, and hit the wall. *****’Ace Bestas‘ – Two films in one: The first, of a suffocating and uncomfortable calm intensity; the second, the dramatic calm and reflection that make the difference (although not the satisfaction). The film, very consistent with the previous work of Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña, is a model example of how a thriller is constructed: Giving voice, soul and reason to the two parties in conflict. With as much simplicity as intention and above all, nerve and cold blood. Or when fear arises from real life. So believable it’s scary. ********Continue… By Juan Pairet Iglesias
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