A Chronicle of Corpses

A Chronicle of Corpses is not a movie for those looking for big scares or gore-filled killings. Rather, the movie provides its audience with long takes that border on making the audience feel uncomfortable or unsettled with light musical cues. The film relies on building tension through scenes that feel like vignettes of a dysfunctional and unattached family. Overall, I found slow panned shots through the woods and scenes framed like paintings to be reminiscent of David Lynch's style of slowly building tension and confusion until the climax where one is unsettled and yet still left with some grander questions. That said, while the family is supposed to be out of touch some of their performances seem wooden and uninspired and as the body count increases I felt neither a sympathy for the victims nor was I interested in cheering on the "mysterious presence."