It started almost a year ago The Fear Collection with ‘Venicephrenia’, an impetuous film by Alex de la Iglesia that he gave his best in the scenes of violence but that he was somewhat disappointing in general. Then the turn of ‘Venus’, a more entertaining proposal that unfairly failed in theaters and is now coming to Amazon Prime Video.
The truth is that ‘Venus’ is several films in one, something that prevents him from fully squeezing his possibilities in any of them. And it is that what begins as a kind of variant of ‘Sky Rojo’ later becomes something very different, which gives rise to mixing elements with a certain touch of manners with an approach to terror that is even reminiscent of the work at times of lovecraft.
I cannot say that the result is round in any case, but there is a daring in ‘Venus’ that helps its viewing fly by as long as one is willing to let oneself go with the insane mix of elements proposed by the script of Fernando Navarro (‘Bajocero’) and Jaume Balaguerówhich finds a luxury accomplice in ester foundling.
Expósito is very popular thanks to her time on ‘Elite’, where she already showed that she was an actress to be reckoned with. Here on her falls the weight of trying to balance an impossible mix and it comes out very well from the stake. The most curious thing is that she does it even more when everything gets out of hand in the final stretch and Balagueró openly embraces excess and gore.
In the end, what remains is a film that may not make much sense as soon as one stops to meditate, but that always dares to go one step further regardless of the criticism that may fall on it, resulting in much more satisfactory than ‘Venicephrenia’. ‘. Unfortunately, his sting at the box office -barely raised 357,000 euros- sows doubts about the future of The Fear Collection.
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