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Name/Year: 32
Malasaña Street (2020)
Genre: Horror
Length: 104 minutes
Rating: NR
Production/Distribution: 4 Cats Pictures, Atresmedia
Cine, Atresmedia, Bambú Producciones, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las
Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Malasaña Movie, Movistar+, Mr. Fields and Friends, Warner
Bros. Entertainment España, Warner Bros. Pictures, Pioneer Films, Zima
Entertainment, Lotte Entertainment, BfParis, Exponenta, Joy n Cinema, Studiocanal
Film, Weird Wave, Westec Media Limited, NOS Audiovisuais
Director: Albert Pintó
Writer: Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira,
David Orea, Salvador S. Molina
Actors: Begoña Vargas, Iván Marcos,
Bea Segura, Sergio Castellanos, José Luis de Madariaga, Iván Renedo, Concha
Velasco, Javier Botet, Maria Ballesteros, Rosa Álvarez, Almudena Salort
Blurb
from IMDb: A
family moving to a new house to live the dream of the big city. A house where
dreams turn in nightmares.
SPOILERS BELOW
Selina’s
Point of View:
In the beginning
of 32 Malasaña Street, I found myself thrown back to Poltergeist
(1982). It felt distinctly similar, where the type of scares was concerned.
Then the flick evolved into something else.
Once
the big bad started showing itself, I found myself see it more like the basic
haunted house movies we’ve been seeing in the last decade. It had a lot of the
same, predictable, scares. The saving grace was just how frightening they made
the physical representation of the being. It was so well done that I wound up
sucked into it and even getting pretty scared here and there.
Then
the ending happened.
The
moment I understood what was going on, when the backstory of the creature was
revealed, I had to pause the film in order to come to terms with what I was
seeing.
It’s
2020. We should be passed this kind of transphobic representation.
That’s
what it came down to. It was the same ending we’ve seen numerous times before,
one that we should have grown out of by now. What it boils down to is the movie
decided that trans = scary.
For a
few moments, I thought they might save the story from completely hanging itself.
THAT would have been interesting. Instead, it went with the completely phobic conclusion.
It’s
upsetting, it’s unnecessary, and it’s unacceptable.
If project
creators are going to regurgitate material from other creations, the should at
least try to evolve the stuff we’ve grown out of.
Rotten
Tomatoes Critic Score – 44%
Rotten
Tomatoes Audience Score – None
Metascore – None
Metacritic
User Score – None
IMDB
Score – 5.4/10
Trust
the Dice: Selina’s Rating – 1/5
Trust
the Dice Parental Advisory Rating: R
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