Paula Pollacchi

A history of Argentine horror cinema, from its beginnings in 1934 to present day. It is a path of defeat, dead-end streets and triumphs, where the protagonists will lead us through the lesser known hallways of local horror.

They awakened a powerful witch to steal her wisdom, but she will make them, one by one, perform the ultimate spell.

A doll, a clown, and a sinister fairy—these are the characters in the play that Dul—a young woman trapped in the role of a child—and her parents perform every week in an abandoned theater. The auditorium is empty; only Dul’s dolls wait expectantly. But today, the play takes an unexpected turn: Mother has decided to burn Dul alive. Dul is unable to react until her dolls speak to her for the first time, helping her save herself. Yet matters do not end there; with her dolls' help, Dul must break free from her mother and become a woman in the only way possible within this dysfunctional family.

"Leti is not sick and you should stop worrying about her", says Erica. But Damián knows better: the night visits to the cemetery and the bathroom decorated with plaques; the knives on the wall and the frequent wounds; the bandages and the barbed wire... He also knows that Erica's arrival to get a picture and become famous for it was for the worst: now Leti wants to be sliced until there's no more Leti left to cut. He doesn't know their obsessions and desires will lead them to get together again, sharing the same place: a true bloody bath.

Argentinean filmmakers talk about the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival and the history of genre cinema in Argentina.

They awakened a powerful witch to steal her wisdom, but she will make them, one by one, perform the ultimate spell.

A doll, a clown, and a sinister fairy—these are the characters in the play that Dul—a young woman trapped in the role of a child—and her parents perform every week in an abandoned theater. The auditorium is empty; only Dul’s dolls wait expectantly. But today, the play takes an unexpected turn: Mother has decided to burn Dul alive. Dul is unable to react until her dolls speak to her for the first time, helping her save herself. Yet matters do not end there; with her dolls' help, Dul must break free from her mother and become a woman in the only way possible within this dysfunctional family.

"Leti is not sick and you should stop worrying about her", says Erica. But Damián knows better: the night visits to the cemetery and the bathroom decorated with plaques; the knives on the wall and the frequent wounds; the bandages and the barbed wire... He also knows that Erica's arrival to get a picture and become famous for it was for the worst: now Leti wants to be sliced until there's no more Leti left to cut. He doesn't know their obsessions and desires will lead them to get together again, sharing the same place: a true bloody bath.

"Leti is not sick and you should stop worrying about her", says Erica. But Damián knows better: the night visits to the cemetery and the bathroom decorated with plaques; the knives on the wall and the frequent wounds; the bandages and the barbed wire... He also knows that Erica's arrival to get a picture and become famous for it was for the worst: now Leti wants to be sliced until there's no more Leti left to cut. He doesn't know their obsessions and desires will lead them to get together again, sharing the same place: a true bloody bath.

"Leti is not sick and you should stop worrying about her", says Erica. But Damián knows better: the night visits to the cemetery and the bathroom decorated with plaques; the knives on the wall and the frequent wounds; the bandages and the barbed wire... He also knows that Erica's arrival to get a picture and become famous for it was for the worst: now Leti wants to be sliced until there's no more Leti left to cut. He doesn't know their obsessions and desires will lead them to get together again, sharing the same place: a true bloody bath.