Over the summer “people” kept saying that there was a new movie on Netflix that was the “scariest movie ever” and that they “couldn’t even finish it” because it was so scary. Naturally, I had to check it out and see for myself if the hype was true.
The day of an eclipse in 1991, in a little town in Madrid, a group of Catholic school girls performs a seance in the basement of a school. One of the girls, Diana, wants to try and contact her deceased boyfriend. Veronica wants to try and get in touch with her deceased father. As the eclipse reaches its peak and the girls begin the seance, things become a bit more menacing. While using a glass to spell out words on the Ouija board, Veronica cuts her hand as the glass inexplicably explodes and the candles are all blown out. The two other girls scream and begin to flee when they notice that Veronica is locked in a trance and bleeding on the board. Veronica screams an inhuman scream and then passes out. When she comes to, she is in the nurse’s office and is left with more questions than before.
Veronica’s friends don’t want to be around her after the incident and she keeps seeing things that she can’t explain. She begins to think that someone or something has come after her and starts to draw protection wards to hang around her home. Her mother works most nights and Veronica is left to care for her younger sisters and much younger brother alone. Veronica soon realizes that something evil is after her and her family and she has to do something to stop it before it’s too late. What she doesn’t know, is that it already is.
I’ve seen a lot of horror movies in the last almost 10 years since I started doing this. I will admittedly say that a few have freaked me out. Maybe a couple have even scared me. However, seeing this movie on social media called “the scariest movie you’ll ever see” was laughable. And then I watched it. Was it creepy? Sure. Scary? Maybe to some. The scariest movie ever? Nice try. It has a lot going for it, and it does what it does really well, but not worthy of the “ever” label.
The atmosphere that is created in Veronica is wonderfully creepy. The nun with the white eyes. How it always seems to be dark shadows now matter where Veronica goes. Even the lack of understanding the language for me (it’s done in Spanish with subtitles) helped create a feeling of unknown. There were a lot of great special effects even simple camera tricks add to the overall mood of the film. Did it scare me so badly I had to sleep with the lights on? No. Did I enjoy the movie in spite of this? Most definitely. It’s what I would call a solid date movie. Something that, if you have a partner prone to being scared by movies, will snuggle up close and hold on tight while watching it.
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