Veronica
Short description
Veronica is a Spanish horror film set in Madrid in 1991. A teenage girl named Verónica looks after her younger brother and sisters at home. During a total solar eclipse, she and two classmates use a Ouija board to contact her deceased father. The session goes wrong: the board breaks, Verónica falls into a trance and loses consciousness. Afterwards she returns to her family apartment, where she begins to notice disturbing occurrences around her and comes to believe something from the other side has followed her home. The screenplay, written by Paco Plaza and Fernando Navarro, draws on a police case in Spain that was never solved.
Paco Plaza directed the film, which came out in 2017 between [REC]³ Genesis and The Grandmother in his filmography. Sandra Escacena plays Verónica, with Bruna González, Claudia Placer and Iván Chavero as the siblings she cares for. Ana Torrent appears as Ana and Consuelo Trujillo as Sister Muerte; twenty-two cast members are credited in all. Enrique López Lavigne produced, and the production involved TVE, Apaches Entertainment, Orange and Sony Pictures International Productions.
The film runs 105 minutes. It drew a larger number of IMDb votes than TMDB votes, and both audiences place it at 6.2 out of 10, while the critics' rating stands at 7.2 out of 10 from 35 reviews, noticeably higher than the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the film, Veronica and her classmates play with a Ouija board during a total solar eclipse on June 12, 1991. In reality, the total solar eclipse occurred on July 11, 1991.
- The film is based on real events that occurred with Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro and her family in 1991. Eighteen-year-old Estefanía, several months after playing with a Ouija board with two classmates, began to see and feel paranormal activity in her home. She died on August 14, 1991, six months after the first game with the Ouija board. After her death, paranormal activity in the house increased. This was recorded in an official report by officers of the Spanish National Police Corps, who witnessed these phenomena on November 27, 1992.
- All the instrumental songs in the soundtrack are by the Spanish rock band Heroes del Silencio. Veronica listens to their songs on a Walkman. She has at least 2 posters and 1 calendar of the band hanging in her room. In some scenes, Veronica wears a T-shirt with the band's name.
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