24 horas con Lucía
2013 · 15m · España
Directed by Marcos Cabotá
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
A possessed woman, a priest ready to perform an exorcism and a husband who prefers the demon to his wife's screaming collide in a blend of horror and comedy.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
The joke isn't that a demon possesses a woman—it's that the husband *prefers* the demon, which is a premise so aggressively misanthropic and absurd that it feels genuinely dangerous, the kind of dark-comedy inversion that makes you uncomfortable before you laugh.
Cabotá threads a needle between exorcism-film formalism and vaudeville farce with considerable precision, and the tonal control—knowing exactly when to flatten affect or escalate theatrical grotesquerie—shows a director conscious of his genre's architecture.
The entire film hinges on a single tonal choice: playing the husband's preference for demonic screaming over his wife's voice *straight*, which transforms what could be disposable horror-comedy into something that lands with real dark weight.