In these stories, bodies suffer, mutate, revive, resist. Fear is breathed in the vitiated atmospheres, in the landscapes inhabited by a spectral presence, in the bonds crossed by violence. The selection of titles that make up the cycle “Body, destruction and death in contemporary Argentine horror films” seeks to account for this aesthetic and thematic variety.
The Returned (2019) dir, Laura Casabé
Synopsis: In 1919 South America, a landowner’s wife is desperate for a child of her own, having suffered through multiple miscarriages. She finds hope, however, in a seemingly outlandish plan: She’ll pray to a mythical deity to resurrect her stillborn son. The plan works, but with the child comes something else, something evil.
Murder Me Monster (2018) dir, Alejandro Fadel
Synopsis: A rural police officer investigates a strange case in which a woman is found headless. The main suspect puts the blame on a legendary monster.