Synopsis
El Conde (2023) is a Chilean black-and-white political horror-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Director Pablo Larraín reimagines Augusto Pinochet as a vampire — a 250-year-old creature who survived the French Revolution, presided over a murderous dictatorship, and faked his own death more than once.
Now he wants to die for real. He stops drinking blood, retreats to a crumbling estate, and waits. His greedy children circle with lawyers in tow, squabbling over an inheritance that hasn't materialised yet. Then a mysterious nun arrives — sent by someone with far less holy intentions. Jaime Vadell plays Pinochet with a dry, exhausted menace; Alfredo Castro is quietly terrifying as his right hand.
The screenplay picked up the Silver Lion at Venice 2023, and it's easy to see why: Larraín turns the vampire genre into a precise instrument for dismantling how authoritarian power regenerates. Stream El Conde (2023) online on iFILM.
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