La parálisis
2022 · 6m · Argentina
Directed by Sebastián Silva
Genres: horror, sci-fi, thriller
Camila suffers from sleep paralysis; one night, having fallen asleep, she opens her eyes and sees strange beings who realize that she is not of their world, while another presence, handled by an agent of a secret mind-control organization, manifests with the aim of protecting Camila, who is his test subject.
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Silva takes the sleep paralysis cliché and explodes it into a three-way ontological standoff—aliens, the sleeper, and a shadow-state handler all occupying the same violated space—which is exactly the kind of genre logic inversion that makes consensus taste look lazy.
The film's formal tension between intimate bedroom horror and institutional sci-fi machinery demonstrates control over register; Silva situates the premise within a lineage of body-invasion cinema while maintaining tonal discipline across its brief runtime.
The choice to make the 'protection' as ambiguous and invasive as the threat itself—never letting us land on who Camila should fear—transforms a familiar premise into something genuinely unsettling on a shoestring budget.