Alexia
2013 · 9m · Argentina
Directed by Andrés Borghi
Genres: horror
When Franco tries to delete his dead ex-girlfriend from his social network to move on, something supernatural begins manifesting through his computer.
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The scouts
The ghost isn't in the machine as a metaphor — she's literally in the Facebook interface, and that specificity makes this Argentine horror short genuinely more unsettling than most studio horror features.
Borghi's Alexia earned its Rojo Sangre prize on formal grounds: the film demonstrates disciplined escalation and genre craft within the Argentine horror tradition. The festival circuit confirms this is not incidental work.
J-horror logic transplanted to the Facebook friend-list interface — the haunting comes through notifications, not mirrors. Eleven years on, that conceit is more resonant, not less.
Reviews
A classic ghost tale adapted to modern times... inspired by Japanese horror it relies more on the mood it creates than on jumpscares and cheap horror tricks.
Festivals
- Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre 2013, First Prize
- Sitges Fantastic Film Festival 2014