Caraoscura (2022)

Premise: Stop me if you’ve heard this one: one specific night every year you need to make a little bonfire by your door with a spooky doll thing looking at it or, so the legend says, Caraoscura will uh eat you? or something.
This is a short film by the same power couple/dynamic duo behind the great La Pasajera and Viejos, two movies that completely understand what kind of story they are telling and that are no shy at all about winking at their clear influences.
Under 90 minutes? Yes, it’s under nine minutes even.
Do they say the title? Yes they do!

One sentence review: eu non creo nas meigas, mais habelas hainas.
Rating: I had fun with this nice little short, it really helps that the little girl is a surprisingly good actor (the boy’s not bad but you can tell he’s sort of reciting his lines at times). Neat.
A simple way to improve it: I will need a ten hours long video essay explaining the lore of Caraoscura and

Trivia about the IMDb trivia movie title: Apparently this short is called Darkface in English, which made me think of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace - not the same thing at all though. I kinda prefer the spanish version though.