Match
2023 · 8m · España
Directed by Víctor Basallote
Genres: fantasy, horror, romance
Rachel, a bored and sleepless young woman, contacts Zalir through a dating app — a creature that will do the impossible so that their paths cross, forever.
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The scouts
A dating app summons a mythological entity to manufacture fate—it's absurd, it's unsettling, and it refuses to genuflect to romantic convention. Basallote plants a conceptual bomb under the meet-cute and actually has the nerve to detonate it.
The film's visual and narrative restraint—the way it evokes Orphic myth through contemporary loneliness rather than stating it—marks a deliberate sophistication; the editing allows each impossible moment to breathe within its surreal logic.
That single choice to filter the supernatural through a dating app interface instead of portent or dream sequences reframes the entire horror; it's where budget constraint becomes aesthetic precision, making the creature's arrival feel both mundane and cosmically wrong.