Hōfuku - Revenge
2016 · 10m · España
Directed by Anaís Medina, Tony Navarro
Genres: horror, sci-fi, thriller
During exam season, university Casanova Héctor works on his final project with Luna, one of his conquests; when she discovers his cheating, his passing grade ends up depending on the peculiar book she owns.
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A Casanova-meets-cosmic-horror premise that could've been a tired revenge comedy instead pivots into surreal territory via a possessed book—the kind of left-turn premise that makes you lean forward because you genuinely don't know where it's going next.
The film demonstrates careful control of its tonal registers, moving between academic realism and transgressive horror with the precision of directors aware they're working within a specific lineage of Latin American genre cinema.
The peculiar book becomes not just a plot device but the film's central formal gambit—how it's shot, how its presence destabilizes the frame—suggests Medina and Navarro understand that constraint breeds invention.