Veronica (2018)

Very good movie. Psychological is the word to describe that movie. Breathtaking and seriously the girl is a very good actress. Based on a true story that took place in Madrid late 90's. The girs real name was Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro. I didn't find it scary but very disturbing. Scary is a wrong word for those kind of movies. Its more psychological the vibes you getting. It was about time to watch a good thriller.

The reason I gave 1 star even though a few interesting things like the acting and slightly on the metaphor of the teenage girl, is because I believe they or Netflix were putting out fake articles/reviews about it being the scariest movie out there and "people not able to watch it completely" was a common thing said. Total internet marketing scam trying to follow the Blair Witch Project marketing plan. I fell for it and it didn't take me very long to figure this out while watching movie. This was not a scary movie, it was metaphoric movie regarding the teenage girl and what this represents for her. Very predictable, overused scare tactics and images. I will not watch the movie again to see all the goofs, but there are plenty. For example, when the girls are playing pageant girls, one talks about artificial intelligence with a 1991 setting. Don't waste your time watching this, I wish I didn't!

Cops are called to some scene in an apartment. They arrive and are stunned. Then we are taken a couple of days back. Veronica is a teenage girl raising her 3 little siblings since the mom works 24/7 at some restaurant. She goes to Catholic school and one day plays the Ouija board with some classmates. She thinks she's contacted her dead father. Of course afterward weird but entirely unscary stuff starts happening. There's a blind nun at school who knows what happened. Veronica forgot to the end the Ouija seance properly with the "good bye" so he brought something into this realm from another. Now she has to go back and finish things properly.This is supposedly based on real life where Spanish cops concluded there was some supernatural even going on--the only time they've done so. The movie ends with pictures presumably from police records which are a little creepy. But aside from that Veronica is complete junk. The hype is either completely fabricated or people are so fond of REC that they feel that this director can do no wrong. Oh but he did, "Paco" Plaza completely botched this thing. Is it that hard to make a good Ouija-based horror movie? The 80s movies are masterpieces compared to the garbage made in the last couple of years. Veronica us the worst of them, utterly unoriginal, dull, boring, slow with absolutely zero thrills.

Veronica was directed by Paco Plaza and stars Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero and Ana Torrent.I want to start off with saying that I am a huge fan of horror. I have a deep love for the genre, but unfortunately it's rare to see a really great horror film. That's why I am even sadder to report that I didn't enjoy this movie much at all, especially after hearing all the buzz about it.So let's start with the pros first. Sandra Escacena is absolutely fabulous as Veronica and delivers a very grounded and nuanced performance as does Ana Torrent. There is also a nun character played by Consuelo Trujillo who I also thought was very good. The movie is very good looking but unfortunately the story doesn't deliver, which leads me into my negatives.The structure of the story sucks any suspense that could be created out of the film. The opening of the film literally spells out how the film is going to end. Some of the other kids performances are very off and on for me as well. In one scene they are able to deliver the right amount of dread and fear while in some other scenes they can be very stale.Now I am a score guy, I really love film scores so much so that I listen to nothing else. And while the music here is pretty good, the film chooses to place very bombastic music under scenes that would otherwise be very suspenseful thus sucking any suspense that was there out of it.But my biggest flaw with this film is that towards the end the character of Veronica makes such a stupid decision that I immediately lost any sympathy that I had for her because she places the people she swore to protect in danger.So to sum it up: It's a pretty movie, it's an overall well-acted film. But it's the story that really turned me off. The film is available on Netflix it you want to give it a shot but I would not recommend it.