Die Die My Darling
2012 · 19m · España
Directed by Iván Mulero
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
Melvin prepares the perfect night with his beloved Pat during a lunar eclipse, planning the greatest love proposal in history, until a cult of ninja monks, an abandoned house and the Devil himself intervene.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A lunar eclipse proposal hijacked by ninja monks and literal Satan—this is the kind of anarchic premise that makes most programmers nervous and me absolutely certain they're missing the point. Mulero swings for the fences with pure absurdist audacity, and the fact that it works at all is exactly why consensus taste is boring.
The film's tonal architecture—threading dark comedy through horror and fantasy without collapsing into parody—suggests a filmmaker conscious of genre tradition while working against its grain; the theatrical energy reads as deliberate pushback against indie restraint, though the execution occasionally outpaces its own discipline.
That moment when the proposal setup collides with the supernatural chaos and you realize the film has committed entirely to playing both the earnest romantic and the absurd horror straight—that tonal refusal to pick a lane is the decision that makes 19 minutes feel like it's operating on its own internal logic rather than borrowed genre mechanics.