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Rural Ourense and spirits of the dead. Logical.

Rural Ourense and spirits of the dead, logical

[Filmin] An exercise in intermixed genres that proposes an incursion into the gothic story, together with a folk horror texture and some notes from the western. The whole is well unified and manages to be mysterious and intriguing, but the rhythm of the story, especially in a leaden first act, and a script that sometimes doesn't seem to find the necessary balance, end up blurring the possibilities of the film. There are, however, some particularly successful scenes involving possession and the strange behavior of the townspeople.