The Power of Darkness (1979)
- Original title
- El poder de las tinieblas
- Directed by
- Mario Sábato
- Genre
- drama film, horror film
- Country
- Argentina
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man investigates a strange report about blind people that leads him into a dark and paranoid world. The story works as a metaphor for state violence under a military dictatorship.
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What happens
The Power of Darkness (Spanish: El poder de las tinieblas) is a 1979 Argentine mystery-horror thriller film written and directed by Mario Sábato and starring Sergio Renán. It is based on the chapter named Informe sobre ciegos ("Report on the Blind"), from the novel On Heroes and Tombs, written by the father of the director, Ernesto Sábato. It was nominated for Best Film at the International Fantasy Film Award Fantasporto in 1982. The film can be read as a clear metaphor for the State terrorism and violence produced by the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina at the time, the self-titled "National Reorganization Process" (1976–1983). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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