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Verónica
Possession films suffer from the "cliché syndrome" more than movies about zombies. It’s indispensable: a table oujia, an innocent victim, some ecclesiastical form and noises and strange presences. This is also the case of "Verónica" by Paco Plaza, famous for the franchise [Rec], which puts a fifteen year old in the lead and for the faith aspect there is a blind nun nicknamed "Suor Morte", with white eyes that we see (she couldn’t have glasses eh). Even the special effects are not all that much and we can say that we are facing the usual movie of the genre.
However, if we leave aside the “possession” aspect and focus on the second narrative plane, this 2017 film gives its best, giving us a much more psychological view that horrifies. The protagonist is Verónica, a fifteen-year-old orphan from Madrid who has to take care of her three little brothers because her mother works all day. She attends a school run by nuns and on an eclipse day (the obscure darkness, another common factor), with two friends she plays with an oujia table. She wanted to see her father again but finds herself in the midst of horrible nightmares, which also touch cannibalism (a bit of splatter never hurts) and then tries to straighten out the situation helped by the advice of the blind nun.
The boundary between possession and schizophrenia is getting thinner and thinner until it merges into confusion and leads us to a tragic epilogue. The illness of the soul partially overturns our judgment on the already seen and at certain points Plaza also manages to cause us some shudder. Certainly not enough to make us scream at the miracle but if nothing else "Verónica" is well placed among its genre and the soundtrack composed in part of songs of the group "Heroes del Silencio", great Spanish band of the nineties, delight the vision .
The most interesting fact is that history is inspired by a fact that happened in Spain. Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro, of Valleca, died in 1990, after inexplicable facts. To contact her boyfriend who died in a motorcycle accident, she and her classmates make a séance, but were interrupted by a teacher. From that day on Estefania suffers from nightmares, visions and sees strange presences that apparently are also heard by her family. One night, such phenomena are so powerful that the family calls the police. And apparently, even the cops are witnessing strange phenomena.