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Ella is on the way back to her hometown with her kids for her sister’s wedding. The remote little village has changed a lot since she left: young people have long moved away, leaving mostly the old folks behind, seemingly forgotten by the rest of the world. When a huge thunderstorm hits the little town the night of the wedding, the residents of a retirement home start behaving strangely. Led by a giant retiree, a group of elderly inmates attacks the young caretakers with horrific brutality. Following a blackout, they break down the security doors and escape into the cold rain. The music attracts them to the wedding where soon Ella will have to fight for her family’s survival. (Netflix)
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Técnicamente, Old People tiene un nivel de artesanía decente. El arranque, que culmina en la escena en la que la protagonista se da cuenta de lo que está pasando, es una delicia de terror magníficamente escalada. Pero la extraña idea de unos jubilados furiosos y asesinos, en la que se basa toda la película, sale como una tontería. Los cineastas no lograron elevar el tema a alegoría social y se ciñeron a la óptica mental del puro terror zombi. Lo que hizo que la película fuera embarazosa hasta ridícula.
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The social-critical aspect is extremely banal and literal, yet if the script had dug into it a bit more and at the same time not shoved it in the viewer's face, it could have had some potential (but then it should have also addressed the frequent contempt of the old for the young, etc., so that it is not so black and white). At the same time, I must admit that the director has the horror craft down pat, the night horror sequences are properly creepy and intense. In the stronger passages it reaches for four stars, in the weaker passages, when we watch a family melodrama or the main young heroine tells us in a voiceover that it is wrong to be mean to old people, oh yes, more like two.
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