True Detective: Polar Night, became a ratings success. But more than that, it surprised fans of the anthology with a supernatural touch that ultimately turned the new entry into the anthology into a horror story. Methodical murder mixed with a terrifying setting, the series continues step by step as the eternal night of Alaska announces a ghostly twist. Especially when the fictional town of Ennis seems to have its own eerie secrets.
The unexpected turn of the series, known for its procedural with philosophical overtones, came thanks to its director and screenwriter Issa Lopez. The Mexican-born director gives the story a unique combination of isolated small-town political corruption and the sinister. The result is a story that, while it carefully examines all aspects of the manipulation of corporate power and the greed of political leaders, also reveals something else. And this is the dark side of what hides one of the loneliest places in the world. Mix transformed the new season true detective, on a menacing journey through dark and dangerous places associated with the paranormal.
But this is not the first time the director has turned to the horror genre. Already in 2017 his work, They’re coming back, told a terrifying story surrounded by a series of reflections on human nature and the search for spiritual purpose. Fantasy horror turns the usual cliché of three wishes destined for disaster into a scenario examining pain, grief and loss. All thanks to the plot, which, like True Detective: Polar Night, develops from a seemingly entirely human event. A shootout in which a mother is killed in front of her frightened daughter.
A scary story similar to True Detective.
The plot tells the story of Estrella (Paola Lara), a girl who finds herself in a worse situation. As an unwitting witness to his mother’s death, he must face pain and anxiety to find his place in the world. But while he tries to overcome the mourning of a violent death, he will also have to deal with an unexplained phenomenon. The possibility that certain ghostly forces will be able to grant your three most desperate wishes.
This premise contains a grim analysis of suffering. Just like True Detective: Polar Night, the plot does not directly explain where the inexplicable events surrounding Estrella come from. However, the truth is that little by little something becomes clear: the violent murder of his mother has opened a rift between seemingly two parallel worlds. On the one hand, a nameless city, besieged by desolation and the brutality of arms. Estrella wanders the streets, terrified of what she might find and, above all, with a terrible injury on her back.
The other extreme is the desperate desire that he articulated, which ultimately turned into a paranormal conviction. Issa Lopez turns a girl’s grief into a connection with a ghost who haunts with regret and may be the ghost of the girl’s mother. But it actually becomes more of a creepy element that the star ends up running away from and having to run for his life. Just like in the HBO series, the connection to the inexplicable turns the story into a reflection of several situations at once. From pain to blind horror before meeting a formidable creature that turns the city into a labyrinth of horrors. The film gradually turns into a large-scale horror story.
Darkness and fear for director Issa Lopez
The tape has the same capacity True Detective: Polar Nightto create a dark atmosphere with few elements. In just over an hour, Vuelven manages to delve into childhood funeral horrors, Mexican death myths and, ultimately, fear in all its simplicity. What makes the film a demonstration of the writer and director’s ability to transform consciousness? and human behavior is at the center of primitive fear.
As for the horrific ending in which Estrella must face what lies behind the spirit that haunts her, one thing is clear. For Issa Lopez, suffering can be an open door to cold and cruel regions. An unexpected twist, which is also part of the plot of the fourth part of the HBO anthology.
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