Diablo Rojo PTY

Pretty good stuuuuuf here. In the old ways you'd turn a corner and see half of a truck being kicked down the street by a man. As the sun sets on a wednesday a giraffe rears up its hoofs and comes down hard on a couple hot wheels cars (put there by a careless fool). At that same moment a kiddy poll goes flying through the air like something is being generated by a strong mind. A man too slowly raises his recorcder (and at the same time raises his straight leg to 90°). Reaches out and grabs his own ankle like he's trying to survive a witch storm full of people with basic physical movement and smiling faces.

The movie reminded me of old school horror spooky fun of the early sixties. Nice vivid lighting in evening sets and the costumes were pretty cool too. The soundtrack was in Giorgio Moroder style. I would watch it again.

We could say that 'Diablo Rojo PTY' is a baroque film, an audiovisual experiment that combines witches, witches who turn into demons, indigenous cannibals, Catholicism, teleportation, and the torment of the ghosts of the past.

In essence, it is a story of men harassed by witches, but the film strays almost at all times from the genre codes associated with that kind of plot. The music seems taken from an episode of Bugs Bunny, or one of the first Disney feature films. The influence of the Latin American soap opera is also noticeable, not only in the sentimental subplot, but also in the acting style, in the dialogues (although seasoned with a very realistic vulgar local language) and in the repetition of ideas and situations. The characterization of the witches is a hybrid between the 'Xena: Warrior Princess' series and a 'Kiss' or 'Mötley Crüe' show.

On the other hand, the erratic plot and sometimes slow action could be identified with some Jess Franco movies. Perhaps, a blend between Jess Franco and the telenovela 'María, la del barrio' is a quite enlightening way of defining this difficult-to-define film.