The Seventh Circle
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Alexandra Velasco
Genres: experimental, horror, thriller
A man called El Minotauro paces a cavernous house that may be his own private hell, until a stranger in a cowboy hat shows up and the rules slip. Experimental horror built from kinetic editing and dread.
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The scouts
Bullfighter myth gets dragged through a haunted house and edited like a panic attack. Atmospheric horror that earns the ambiguity instead of hiding behind it.
Alexandra Velasco deploys genre horror grammar on a single labyrinthine location and one tonal shift — Jodorowsky's spatial logic, early Refn's lighting. El Minotauro at home with a stranger in a cowboy hat is a great image.
Genre horror grammar deployed on a single labyrinthine location and one tonal shift when a cowboy-hat stranger appears — Alexandra Velasco's frenzied editing and Spanish-language whispering anchor the experimental swing.
Reviews
A frenzied experimental horror film soaked in isolation and ambiguity.