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| La funeraria | |
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| Directed by | Mauro Ivan Ojeda |
| Written by | Mauro Ivan Ojeda |
| Produced by | Nestor Sanchez Sotelo |
| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Lucas Timerman |
| Edited by | Lionel Cornistein |
| Music by | Jeremiah Smith |
| Distributed by | Del Toro Films |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
The Undertaker's Home (Spanish "La funeraria") is a 2020 Argentinan supernatural horror and drama film written and directed by Mauro Ivan Ojeda and exhibited for the first time in 2020. In the film plot, a family living within a funeral house discovers a mystery complot related to the supernatural phenomena they were used to witnessing and living among it.
After a limited theatrical exhibition in its country Argentina the film was ultimately acquired for streaming on-demand by Shudder in the United States. The film was also exhibited at the 2020 Sitges Film Festival where it gathered positive reviews for its acting and direction.
Plot
[edit]Bernardo is an undertaker who runs his mortuary business in the same house where he resides with his wife Estela and stepdaughter Irina. Used to live among coffins and wreaths, the family often witnessed supernatural phenomena like spirit manifestations within different rooms. They also evade using their bathroom due to is the most haunted room of their home. They attribute the paranormal embodiments to the dead bodies from their mortuary work and, therefore they stay there despite Irina's insistence on leaving to live with her grandmother.
As a result of his dysfunctional dynamic with both Irina and Elena, Bernardo often talk with spirits of a woman and her daughter. One night while he tries to talk with them he
Cast
[edit]- Luis Machín as Bernardo
- Celeste Gerez as Estela
- Camila Vaccarini as Irina
- Hugo Arana as Salvador
- Susana Varela as Ramona, a shaman
- Graciela Bonomi as la Abuela
Production
[edit]Reception
[edit]Box Office
[edit]For its distribution the movie was exhibited at theaters on Argentina and part of Russia; for most of Latin America the film was distrubited by VOD format.[1][2] Box Office Mojo reported the movie final box office results were 295,327 dollars.
Critical response
[edit]On the website Rotten Tomatoes movie holds a porcentage of 80% based in 15 reviews most of them positive.[3]
Writting for Film Daze Katie Duberman said: "While it feels a bit like we are watching a story unfold in a painstakingly designed Victorian dollhouse, the film has enough in the way of bewitching production design and trance-like cinematography to enchant."[4] Alix Turner from Ready Steady Cut rated the movie with 3 stars of 5 and wrote: "An unusual, sad story about a haunted funeral home. Sympathetic characters, beautiful cinematography, and intense music. Mauro Iván Ojeda is a director to watch."[5] Conversely Wendy Ide from Screen International was critical about tone and concluded: "There is an intriguing idea at the heart of this film, but it is too tonally uncertain to gather much momentum. The undertaker’s home might be brim-full of spooks, but the actual scares are few and far between."[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mauro Ivan Ojeda talks about The Undertakers Home". Noticine. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ Perez, Juan. "The undertaker's Home from Mauro Ojeda (2005)". GPS. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ "The Undertaker's Home". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ Duberman, Katie. "Fantasia 2020 'The Undertaker's Home' Review: An Elegant House Filled With More Ghosts Than Most". Film Daze. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ Turner, Alix. "The Funeral Home aka La Funeraria (FrightFest 2020) review – a different kind of haunted house film". Ready Steady Cut. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ Ide, Wendy. "'The Undertaker's Home': Fantasia Review". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
External links
[edit]- La funeraria at IMDb