La hora de la bruja
2021 · 24m · España
Directed by Abel Gil Erquicia
Ramón Badía hosts La hora de la bruja, a programme where people recount real horror stories and paranormal events, until one call proves to be something far from ordinary.
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A late-night radio show where confessions turn genuine is the kind of meta-recursive premise that shouldn't work but does—takes the tired found-footage format and weaponizes it through real audio intimacy, which is exactly the kind of subversive constraint play that everyone else overlooks.
The film understands the vocabulary of radio horror and Argentine television vernacular with enough formal awareness to ground its genre escalation; Badía's performance as the increasingly destabilized host becomes a study in broadcast authenticity collapsing under pressure.
The decision to keep us locked in the studio booth and let the horror unfold through voice alone—no jump cuts, no visual shock—is the filmmaking choice that makes this breathe; that restraint transforms a gimmick premise into genuine dread.