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Sinister Circle
Peru 2015
produced by Nevenka Yanovich, Dorian Fernández-Moris (executive) for AV Films
directed by Dorian Fernández-Moris
starring Milene Vásquez, Matías Raygada, Claudia Dammert, Marcello Rivera, Attilia Boschetti, Hernán Romero, Ismael Contreras, Pietro Sibille, Macarena Piana, Leslie Shaw, Micheille Soifer, Mathías Brivio, Miguel Arce, Edgar Vivar
written by Adrián Ochoa, music by Jorge Luís Cárdenas Sotolongo, visual effects by Luis Enrique Alfaro
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A group of teenagers have killed themselves at a cemetary in some kind
of cult ritual, and since one of them was her niece, Ursula (Claudia
Dammert) has fallen into an apathetic state that has gone so bad that her
doctor Garcia (Hernán Romero) had to call back her daughter Fernanda
(Milene Vásquez) and Fernanda's son Julio (Matías Raygada) to her native
Lima, Peru from Mexico to look after her. Fernanda moves back into her
childhood home and is heartily welcomed by the caretaker Quiroga (Ismael
Contreras) and the maid Rosa (Attilia Boschetti) ... but it soon becomes
apparent that the house is haunted, even if Quiroga and Rosa contest that.
Also it seems that Fernanda's mother is drugged far beyond the levels her
condition suggest. And then there's a reporter (Marcello Rivera) who
suggests there's something severely wrong with ... well everything
involving Fernanda's childhood home, her mother's condition, the teen
suicides, and quite a few other things - but investigating what that may
be only means treading a truly dangerous path ... Now it's true
that the more is explained away in ghost stories, the less effective they
are - but going the complete opposite direction, Sinister Circle
only shows that giving the viewer too little information might hurt a film
just as well. Basically, the film is a big supernatural puzzle, and only
by the by are the connections revealed. Thing is, at the end the narrative
still remains a mess, and thus makes it hard for the audience to feel with
the protagonists, simply because the horrors they face are so diffuse.
What remains isn't exactly a train wreck, but some old fashioned scare
tactics lined up with little rhyme or reason that after a time are tedious
rather than creepy. Not without promise, but could have been far better.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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