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Veronica is a 2017 Spanish supernatural horror film directed by Paco Plaza and stars Sandra Escacena (this is her first film!).
In 1991, three high school girls in Madrid misuse an ouija board and a spirit attaches itself to one of the girls -- Veronica.
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Annabelle Comes Home is a 2019 supernatural horror movie directed by Gary Dauberman and stars Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, and Katie Sarife.
The famous scary doll (no, not Chucky) Annabelle is back, but this time she is safely kept at the Warrens' house unable to harm anyone. Things quickly change when the babysitter's best friend accidentally lets Annabelle out and all hell breaks loose.
Annabelle Comes Home is a 2019 supernatural horror movie directed by Gary Dauberman and stars Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, and Katie Sarife.
The famous scary doll (no, not Chucky) Annabelle is back, but this time she is safely kept at the Warrens' house unable to harm anyone. Things quickly change when the babysitter's best friend accidentally lets Annabelle out and all hell breaks loose.
Annabelle Comes Home is a 2019 supernatural horror movie directed by Gary Dauberman and stars Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, and Katie Sarife.
The famous scary doll (no, not Chucky) Annabelle is back, but this time she is safely kept at the Warrens' house unable to harm anyone. Things quickly change when the babysitter's best friend accidentally lets Annabelle out and all hell breaks loose.
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Adelaide and her family go on a family vacation, but when they go to the same beach that she went to as a child, past trauma begins to haunt them. Things take a strange turn when a family shows up looking exactly like them.
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This is one of those movies where you're sitting there biting your nails and wondering what's going to happen next. There is a big secret surrounding the main character Koo Ja-Yoon. Who is she and why does she have powers that her adoptive parents are apprehensive about her showing? I'm usually good at figuring out what is going to happen next in a movie since I've seen so many and they usually fit certain patterns, but this one has a good twist!
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Veronica (2017)
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Veronica is a 2017 Spanish supernatural horror film directed by Paco Plaza and stars Sandra Escacena (this is her first film!).
In 1991, three high school girls in Madrid misuse an ouija board and a spirit attaches itself to one of the girls -- Veronica.
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I was very excited to see this movie after hearing that Paco Plaza was the director since his movie REC (2007) is one of my favorite horror movies. Unsurprisingly, the direction and atmosphere kept my attention, but it fell short during the third act to the point where I asked myself, "What was the point of this entire movie?".
This film is filled with great camera angles right from the beginning and excellent transitional cuts such as a scream in one scene turning to Veronica yawning in the next.
Plaza gives a good blend of found footage style filming while still remaining cinematic. The first five minutes gave me major REC vibes with similar sound effects and the way the camera followed and stayed close behind the characters in frantic scenes.
Symbolism is a big part of this movie, mostly referring back to the eclipse that happens at the beginning of the film. They explain how the solar eclipse is subjective (like movies in general) and it depends on the subject looking at it. This connects with the main character, Veronica, and her struggles with supernatural spirits after her and her friends use an ouija board. She is the only one who can see the spirits.
The plot is my main problem with this one. I couldn't sense any hope for Veronica. Her family life is already a struggle since she raises her three younger siblings while her mom works and barely sees them. Her relationship with her mom was one long static heartache. The only time her mother seems worried is at the very end when it's too late.
They did do a clever job comparing her feeling of abandonment with her mom amidst her isolation with the evil spirit. There's a scene where you can see the silhouette of the spirit through the door, but when it opens it's her mother.
I was glad they tied her dad into her reason for using the Ouija board (since kids just seem to randomly want to play with them in horror movies with no rhyme or reason) but something seemed to be missing by the third act.
You get the sense that Veronica might not survive from the beginning of the film and the fact this is based on "true events", but there was no sign of hope at all. I felt like I couldn't root for her or be invested. After the movie ended I sat there like, "Well, that sucked for her."
All in all, this felt like a story I've seen many times, but with better actors, camera work and metaphors. They could have done more to connect the audience with Veronica and give us a sense that we learned something or came out of the viewing with meaning (or maybe I'm just getting too deep into the horror genre).
I'd recommend this movie if you appreciate cinematography and are a fan of Pazo Plaza, but if you are looking for a compelling scary story, this isn't the one.
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6 Ouija boards out of 10
