1978 (film)
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| Cinematography | Luciano Montes De Oca |
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| Music by | Luciano Onetti |
Production company | Black Mandala |
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| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
1978 is a 2024 Argentinian horror film directed by Luciano and Nicolas Onetti and started by Agustin Pardella, Carlos Portaluppi, Mario Alarcon, Agustin Olcense, Maria Eugenia Rigon, Paula Silva among others. It's produced by black Mandala productions.[1]
Set in 1978 in the final game between Holland and Argentine, a paramilitary squadron kidnapped the wrong people, a deadly cult.
The movie had a domestic release in the Buenos Aires Rojo festival of 2024 edition.
The release date in Argentine theaters was to be in March 2025.
Plot
During the 1978 FIFA World Cup Final between Argentina and the Netherlands, at the height of the military dictatorship, a group of torturers violently breaks into a home and abducts young people, taking them to a clandestine detention center.
What begins as a brutal interrogation soon turns into a nightmare—the captors have chosen the wrong victims. The abducted individuals belong to a dark cult controlled by an unknown supernatural force.
The secret detention center will become a true hell on Earth...
Principal cast
Augusto Pardella as Hugo[2]
Carlos Portaluppi as Carancho[3]
Agustin Olcense as Miguel
Santiago Rios as Alsina
Jorge Lorenzo as Baviera
Mario Alarcon as Moro
Paula Silva as Irene
Maria Eugenia Rigon as Diana
Release date
The movie had a domestic release in The Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Festival in November 2024.[4]
It was also screened in the Venezuelan horror festival El Grito.[5]
The movie was to be released in Argentina theaters in March 2025.
Background of the historical revisionism horror subgenre
The Argentine short film 47, el muerto (2000), directed by Andrés Dentoni and Fernando Gabriel Sosa, is considered one of the first examples of the historical revisionism horror subgenre in Latin America.
The film portrays a former repressor of the military dictatorship being haunted by the spirit of one of his victims, reversing the traditional roles of victim and aggressor. This narrative and the atmosphere of political horror influenced later productions that combine historical memory with elements of horror.
47, el muerto served as a conceptual reference for later Argentine films, such as , consolidating the trend of using horror to explore historical and social traumas, and establishing an important precedent for studies on horror and collective memory in Latin American cinema.
Critical reception
Critics throwback the script and the effects.[6]
Rotten Tomatoes gave 50% of approbation for 30 critics.
The website Surgeon of Horror praised the movie with these words "its methodical pacing, relentless, brutality and grotesque atmosphere can be overwhelming".[7]
Scream Anarchy praised the special effects in the movie with the following words, "There is a good share of gore and violence that happens in the back half of the movie. The special effects by Onetti Brothers regular Yanel Castellano and newcomer to the fold, Melisa Ontivero, are good. This includes a moment when another regular Maria Eugenia Rigon (Abrakadabra, Scars) and her co-star Justina Ceballos neuter a member of the death squad".[8]
References
- ^ Caamaño, Por Lisa (2024-09-13). "1978: la película de terror argentina ambientada en un centro de detención clandestino presenta su tráiler". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ Caamaño, Por Lisa (2024-09-13). "1978: la película de terror argentina ambientada en un centro de detención clandestino presenta su tráiler". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2025-02-15.
- ^ Caamaño, Por Lisa (2024-09-13). "1978: la película de terror argentina ambientada en un centro de detención clandestino presenta su tráiler". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2025-02-15.
- ^ "1978 | Sitges Film Festival". sitgesfilmfestival.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- ^ "1978 - Largometraje". El Grito (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- ^ "Crítica de "1978": Los hermanos Onetti y el horror en diferentes formas". EscribiendoCine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ Horror, Surgeons of (2024-09-22). "1978 (2024) – A Fulci-Inspired Descent into Political Terror and Macabre Madness". Surgeons of Horror. Retrieved 2025-02-05.
- ^ "Morbido 2024 Review: 1978, Historical Horror Descends Into Hellish Chaos". ScreenAnarchy. 2024-11-07. Retrieved 2025-02-05.
External links
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33304396/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_2 (imdb)
- https://letterboxd.com/film/1978/ (Letterboxd)
- https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film149705.html (FilmAffinity)