This is the seventh film in the Stuttgart Weird Weekender Festival.
It's a Brazilian film made in Portuguese. I usually tag films by their
language, not by their country, but this might not be appropriate in the case
of Brazil. The language spoken in Brazil is Portuguese, but I've been told
that the dialect is so different that people from Brazil and Portugal can
barely understand one another.
Ana is a firefighter. There are heavy floods, and her team is called to a
nursing home by someone claiming it's collapsed. It was a false alarm. The
nursing home is still standing, but when the team examines the building
they're convinced that it's in such a poor state that it has to be evacuated.
The home's owner objects. The fire team's work is made difficult by
carnivorous monsters that live below the home. The old people in the home
aren't human. They're shape shifters, and one of them takes the form of Ana's
mother. Or is it really her mother? When we discussed the film afterwards
there were different opinions.
It's a terrifying horror film, but my overall impression is negative. When the
film ended there were still too many loose ends. I prefer the mysteries in
films to be explained.
