Halley2012
Directed by Sebastián Hofmann
🏆 9 wins & 6 nominations
The premise
Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Make-up and perfume can no longer conceal his quickly decomposing body. Dismayed, he decides to withdraw from the world, whilst forming an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where he works as a night guard.
Horror Vault's take
Alberto moves through the world as a dead man — literally — masking his rotting body with cosmetics and cologne as he works the night shift at a 24-hour gym. A quiet, unflinching meditation on mortality and estrangement, the film follows his withdrawal from society alongside an unlikely bond that refuses to let him disappear entirely. Shot in the slow-cinema tradition, it lingers on bodies, spaces, and silences to devastating effect. This is horror stripped of spectacle, replaced with something far more existential.
Content: Decomposing Body Imagery, Body Horror, Themes Of Death And Dying, Disturbing Visuals
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