La firma.
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Javi Cortes larrinzar
Genres: dark comedy, drama, horror
Tones: dark, darkly comic, theatrical
After their mother's death, three siblings gather to collect an inheritance that promises to change their lives, but soon discover that one of the sisters has forged the will; their mother's ghost returns to punish the betrayal and demand justice, yet not even death can stop the greed as the others keep fighting over the money.
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The scouts
A ghost story that refuses the moral comeuppance—the mother's supernatural justice lands as just another voice in the greed chorus, which is a genuinely perverse move that most festivals would soften into redemption. Larrinzar's betting that we'll laugh at the futility rather than feel cathartic, and he's right.
The theatrical excess and tonal tightrope walk—juggling horror, comedy, and family drama across three minutes—echoes Latin American magical-realist traditions, though the execution feels more pantomime than formal rigor; the ghost's entrance needed sharper editing to land the tonal pivot it's reaching for.
The single choice that makes this work is casting a *mother's ghost* as another player in the inheritance squabble instead of arbiter—that one reversal of expectation rewires the entire moral architecture and explains why the runtime compresses so efficiently without feeling rushed.