IMDb plot summary: Three generations are cursed by a secret in La Condesa.
Directed by Mario Ramos. Starring Hannia Guillen, Gonzalo Trigueros, and Soraya Padrao.
La Condesa is a Honduran film tracking a haunted house at two different points in time: once in the 1970s, and once in the 2020s, where a descendant of the original characters comes back to the house. This isn't a bad premise for a horror movie, and there are moments where I think it's going to kind of work, but none of the characters are particularly interesting, and, sadly, neither is the Evil they're fighting against. You've got to have one of those to make something interesting in a horror flick, and this one just kind of floats around without ever landing anywhere interesting. I will say the grungy 70s nostalgia aesthetic works really well in this kind of movie, and for a good chunk of the film I thought this was going really work for me. As it is, sadly, it's a pretty disappointing ride. I seriously wish there had been as much thought put into the story, because I really wanted to like it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
La Condesa < Neighbors
La Condesa > L'Age d'Or
La Condesa > Liz & Dick
La Condesa < King Kong (2005)
La Condesa < Rosemary's Baby
La Condesa < The Shop Around the Corner
La Condesa > Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
La Condesa > Val
La Condesa < About Ray
La Condesa > Blow Out
La Condesa < The Fourth Kind
Final spot: #2311 out of 3776, or 39%.
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