FilmSupernatural Psychological

Imagining Argentina2003

Name: Imagining Argentina
Genre: Supernatural, Psychological
Released: 2003-09-13
Rating: 5.7

Directed by Christopher Hampton

5.7

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.1Rotten Tomatoes 31%Metacritic 27TMDB 5.7

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On the charts

#13·Top Horror Movies of 2003

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Year

2003

Runtime

107 min

Box Office

Domestic

$8,899

🏆 1 nomination

The premise

Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.

Horror Vault's take

Against the chilling backdrop of Argentina's 1970s military dictatorship, a theater director discovers he possesses an uncanny ability to envision the fates of the disappeared — including, devastatingly, his own wife. Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson anchor this emotionally raw drama that blurs the line between supernatural gift and unbearable longing. It is as much a meditation on powerlessness under tyranny as it is a thriller, wrapping real historical horror in an intimate human story.

Content: Depictions Of Political Abduction And Detention, Themes Of Torture And State Violence, Emotional Distress And Grief