[s] Hada (Tony Morales, 2015)
Hada by Tony Morales is a short horror about a little boy, who’s afraid of the dark, because he knows that should the night fall, Hada will come for him, for his has lost his last baby tooth. And so she does…
The film is indeed somewhat scary, but it’s also confusing. There are two dark entities, a boy wearing a yellow raincoat, and the old lady; I guess Hada is the latter one, but what is the deal with the boy, I didn’t quite get – why was he there?; did he warned the boy about Hada?; if so – why?, etc. Plus, there were a number of moments when Hada was literally centimeters away from her supposed victim, but nothing happened… In short, the story seems to be a trying to scare the viewer just for the sake of the process, with no consistency. The execution, on the other hand, is pretty good – most of the special effects, the technical maintenance of the story, and the acting are of rather good quality. Still, the story is weird.
Julia’s Eyes / Los ojos de Julia (Guillem Morales, 2010)
There is endless number of faces to the psychopathic personality disorder. Many of those faces have films made about them, the most wide-spread – much more than 1. With time movies dedicated to human monsters get more and more sophisticated, and Julia’s Eyes is one of the landmarks on this road.
It is about 2 things: loosing eyesight, which is a nightmare for some people (including myself), and a person whose obscutiry reached such a level that he basically became a shadow. The combination of the two turned out quite fascinating, although this shadow thing was weird – it was like he had a super power or something; not a crucial omission, just a little bit too much. I loved the way they showed him, the way they hid his face until the last moment – all that created a feeling of presence and participation. All in all Morales knows how to push the right buttons. Also, the level of production is in no respect worse than the Hollywood’s.
It is pretty violent and sometimes scary, especially the finale. Kinda sad too.
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