Verónica - playing with the devil
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| German title | Verónica - playing with the devil |
| Original title | Verónica |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paco Plaza |
| script | Fernando Navarro |
| production | Enrique López Lavigne |
| music | Chucky Namanera |
| camera | Pablo Rosso |
| cut | Martí Roca |
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Verónica - Playing with the Devil (Original title: Verónica) is a Spanish horror film from 2017 directed by Paco Plaza . The film is based on true stories to Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro that some days after at a Ouija -Brett- Seance participated, dies mysteriously. The film is based on the first police report in Madrid, in which an investigator testifies to have observed paranormal activities.
action
The film is set in 1991 and revolves around the life of 15-year-old Verónica. She lives with her mother and her three siblings, the twins Lucia and Irene and the youngest, Antoñito, in an apartment in the working-class district of Vallecas in Madrid . Her father recently passed away, and her mother works harder and longer to keep the family afloat. Verónica is therefore primarily responsible for her younger siblings before and after school.
On the day of the solar eclipse , Verónica's teacher explains to her class how some ancient cultures used solar eclipses to stage human sacrifices and summon dark spirits. While the students gather on the roof to watch the natural spectacle, Verónica, her friend Rosa, and her classmate Diana go into the basement to hold a séance with an ouija board. Verónica wants to reach her father this way. The board reacts immediately, but Rosa and Diana pull their hands back just as the glass gets too hot to touch. Verónica's hand remains on it, and at the moment of darkness the glass shatters, cutting Verónica and dripping blood on the board. The lights go out and the friends begin to search the room for Verónica. She lies motionless on her back and does not react. Suddenly she utters a hellishly demonic scream and later finds herself in the office of the school nurse. She passed out and is told that she probably passed out because of an iron deficiency .
From this point on, Verónica begins experiencing paranormal incidents. She cannot bring her dinner to her mouth as if an invisible hand was preventing her. Claw and bite marks appear on her body and she hears strange noises. Her friends start avoiding her. In search of answers, she returns to the school basement and finds the older, blind nun at the school, whom the students call "Sister Death". The nun berates her for doing something dangerous without realizing the consequences and explains that after the séance she has a dark spirit attached to her. She warns them to take care of their siblings after failing to drive the ghost away.
Verónica then draws protective Viking symbols at home to ward off evil from her siblings. She tries to help Lucia one night when the ghost tries to suffocate her. But Lucia says it was Verónica who strangled her. That night, Verónica dreams that her siblings are eating her. She wakes up to find that she has had her period for the first time. When she starts cleaning her mattress, she finds mysterious burn marks on the underside of the mattress. She finds these fire marks on all of her siblings' mattresses; all are in the shape of a human body.
"Sister Death" tells her that she can make the ghosts leave by "balancing what screwed her up the first time". It is important to say goodbye to the spirit at the end of the incantation.
Verónica asks Rosa and Diana to help her hold another séance, but they refuse. Desperate, she decides to hold the séance with her younger siblings instead. She has Antoñito draw the protective symbols on the walls, but he turns the page and starts drawing symbols of the invitation. When she tells the ghost to say goodbye, the ghost refuses.
Since she can no longer help herself, she calls the police. She and the twin sisters are able to escape from the apartment when the ghost snatches Antoñito. She runs back to save him and finds her brother hiding in the bathroom. She calls him over, but he doesn't listen to her. Verónica looks at herself in the bathroom mirror and recognizes the demon in herself. It was she who harmed her siblings all along. She wants to cut her own throat to end the possession of the spirit, but is prevented from doing so by the demon.
When the police arrive, they witness an invisible force attacking Verónica and losing consciousness. The doctors carry her and Antoñito out while a shaken detective watches the scene. When he reads a framed photo of Verónica, a flame suddenly burns a hole in the depicted face. At the same time he is told that Verónica has just died.
background
The film is based on one of the most mysterious deaths in Spanish criminal history. In August 1991 the then 18-year-old Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro died after holding a Ouija séance with her best friends at her school in Madrid six months earlier. She tried to contact a deceased friend of her friend and afterwards suffered from severe hallucinations and convulsions. She had been medically examined several times, but without any findings. She was eventually taken to a Madrid hospital, where she died shortly afterwards. Her parents also witnessed inexplicable incidents in her home. What was remarkable about the case was that the responsible detective, José Pedro Negri, recorded paranormal phenomena in the apartment in his police report - such as a cross that suddenly turned or a previously undamaged poster that was suddenly cut up.
Soundtrack
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Héroes del Silencio -
- Maldito duende
- Entre dos tierras
- Hechizo
- Phil Spector , Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich - Da Doo Ron Ron
Reviews
"Solid ghost horror that slowly builds up its horror and consequently condenses it in order to let it escalate in a spectacular finale."
Web links
- Verónica - Game with the devil in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Verónica - Playing with the Devil . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; November 2017; test number: 171 395 K).
- ↑ "Veronica": The real story behind the "worst horror movie ever". Retrieved September 26, 2018 .
- ^ Verónica - The Real Story Behind the Netflix Horror Movie. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Verónica - Playing with the Devil. In: filmdienst.de. Film service , accessed October 14, 2018 .