Caza Ovnis – Viral II. Constelación Hiperbólica
2013 · 7m · España
Directed by Jon Rivero
Genres: experimental, horror, sci-fi
Video amateurs Pascual and Chiqui spend a day in the hills until Chiqui falls into a strange regression and speaks oddly, leading the friends to summon Vicente and Sebastián after something appears in the sky.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A found-footage sci-fi that refuses the genre's usual jump-scare templates and instead dissolves into linguistic horror and cosmic dread—Chiqui's regression isn't a possession moment, it's a language breakdown, which is infinitely weirder and actually disturbing in ways most UFO films don't even attempt.
Rivero's formal restraint in staging the amateur footage within the amateur footage creates a nested documentary quality that situates itself in a lineage of structural experimentation; the editing between Pascual's framing and the unseen event operates with genuine compositional intention.
The decisive choice here is the decision to let Chiqui's vocal distortion and linguistic slippage carry the horror rather than any visual reveal—that single audio-performance choice makes the budget constraints feel like aesthetic necessity rather than limitation, transforming constraint into voice.