The Phantom of the Convent
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
Sombre, steady, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.
Our read · The Phantom of the Convent (1934) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive horror · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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