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Historia de lo Oculto (2020)
Cosmic Horror at it´s best
Lovecraft meets David Lynch in this strange tale of horror. It´s not the typical horror cinema where you know the monster or monstruosity and the intentions it has for the heroes. It is Cosmic Horror at it´s best that questions the nature of reality and hints at the hand that rules this world.
Like in Dark City the movie shows us a grimm reality that lacks color and seems to exist in the vacum of a room where the protagonists follow a tv news show that is about to expose "something" the president has done.. a dark secret that might cost him the reelection. But slowly the story derails into the field of the unknown where shadows hide monstruosities without name that we cannot understand if they are a reality or just a vision. Like that we are dragged into a journey of discovery and obscurity. The Nameless is not called like that because it has no name but because it should not be named. What happen when you find the true name of that which should not be called ?
Mild contextual pseudo spoilers----------------------------------------
Argentina (like so many others) is a country that has been divided from it´s beginnings into factions that lead to the same thing. Even today the government follows the same recipe that has trapped us into this bizarre reality that is more fantastic that any fantasy. How is it possible that in a democrafic land the polititians that rule us do the same over and over and over ? Is it the stupidity of the citizens ? Or are there forces that makes us forget what happened before and will be repeated over and over to infinity ? Like in a Matrix every 4-8 years argentinians make the same mistake and vote the same people that destroyed our country like in a spell and repeat the cycle that never ends.
Lovecraft is the supreme master of horror for a reason. He is the first author post the Gothic period that removes religion from his stories. It is not the devil which guides the action of men but forces we cannot understand... forces that drive mad anyone who tries. And like lovecraft in his stories, this movie takes us to the journey of strange characters that will confront this evil and probably not survive it, whom are doomed to never wake up from the everlasting dream of reality.
We are the characters in the end and this review never really existed :)