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With: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero, Ana Torrent, Consuelo Trujillo, Sonia Almarcha, Maru Valduvielso, Leticia Dolera, Ángela Fabián, Samuel Romero, Carla Campra
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Written by: Fernando Navarro
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Directed by: Paco Plaza
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Language: Spanish, with English subtitles
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Running Time: 105
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Date: 08/25/2017
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Fishy Eclipse
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
In the summer of 2018, news outlets began reporting that Paco Plaza's Veronica was so scary that Netflix viewers couldn't even finish watching it. News like that is catnip for horror fans, but the truth is that, though the movie isn't as scary as all that, it's still quite good. It has a fine touch for horror that grows organically out of ordinary situations. Apparently based on a spine-tingling true story, it's set in 1991, in Madrid. (The movie is best viewed in Spanish with English subtitles.) The title character (Sandra Escacena) is a 15 year-old who is in charge of her three younger siblings while her widowed mother works. At school, during a solar eclipse, she sneaks into the basement with two friends to speak to her dead father via a Ouija board. Of course, that goes spectacularly wrong, and all kinds of creepy, hair-raising things start happening around the house. The movie ends with what appear to be photographs from the real-life incident, leaving viewers with genuine chills.
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