LOBISOME
2018 · 11m
Directed by Juan de Dios Garduño
Genres: crime, dark comedy, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
Jorge and Iván take a simple job — steal a briefcase and deliver it in an airport bathroom — without imagining the case holds an ancient curse.
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A crime caper that *refuses* to stay in its lane — you're halfway through a slick heist procedural before the Mesoamerican supernatural apparatus drops and everything warps into absurdist horror-comedy. Garduño understands that the best subversion is hiding the teeth until it's too late.
The film's tonal architecture—balancing procedural tension with folkloric dread through careful sound design and editing rhythm—shows a director conscious of how genre operates; it's a small work that knows exactly where it sits in the lineage of crime-horror hybrids.
That moment the briefcase opens and the tonal pivot becomes irreversible—it's not a jump scare, it's a *structural* choice—reveals a filmmaker who understood that with 11 minutes and modest resources, one committed genre violation beats a hundred polished seconds of competence.