The House at the End of Time

The House at the End of Time

Original Venezuelan poster
Produced by Alejandro Hidalgo
Written by Alejandro Hidalgo
Starring Rosmel Bustamante
Adriana Calzadilla
Simona Chirinos
Music by Yoncarlos Medina
Cinematography Cezary Jaworski
Edited by Miguel Angel Garcia
Judilam Goncalves Montilla
Alejandro Hidalgo
Production
company
Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía
Fundación Villa del Cine
JEMD Films
Release dates
  • June 17, 2013 (2013-06-17) (Venezuelan Film Festival)
Running time
 101 minutes
Country Venezuela
Language Spanish

The House at the End of Time (Spanish: La casa del fin de los tiempos) is a 2013 Venezuelan horror-suspense film by Alejandro Hidalgo. The film had its world premiere on June 17, 2013 at the Venezuelan Film Festival. The film has been well-received in its country of origin, set box office records for Venezuelan films, and sold over 623.700,000 tickets during 41 weeks. The film has become the highest grossing thriller of all time in Venezuela. The movie has also participated in some of the most renowned fantastic festivals, getting some awards. The film has had distribution in countries like USA, Germany, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Spain, and others.

Plot

In 1981, Dulce (Ruddy Rodríguez) lived in an old house with her sons Leopoldo (Rosmel Bustamante) and Rodrigo (Hector Mercado), and her husband Juan José (Gonzalo Cubero). During that time, she experienced multiple cases of strange supernatural phenomena, most notably an elderly woman who attempts to warn her that her children are in mortal danger. Dulce desperately tries to protect her family, but fails and is ultimately arrested and imprisoned for murder. Thirty years later, an elderly Dulce has been released from jail—under the requirement that she serve the rest of her sentence under house arrest in the very house where the murders took place. Once settled, Dulce is visited by a local priest (Guillermo Garcia) who wants desperately to get her to turn back to God as Dulce has lost all her faith in religion. She successfully manages to enlist his help in discovering what exactly happened in her home thirty years ago.

Cast

Reception

The Montreal Gazette and Shock Till You Drop both praised the movie,[1] with Shock Till You Drop comparing it favorably to the similarly themed movies The Conjuring, The Others and Oculus and declaring that "The House at the End of Time is the best of all of those films."[2] Fangoria rated the movie at two and a half skulls, criticizing it as being "aesthetically separated" at times but also stating that "the film’s emotional center is sound".[3]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Ferguson, Liz. "Fantasia 2014: Venezuela’s first horror movie – House at the End of Time". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  2. ↑ Turek, Ryan. "Fantasia Review: The House at the End of Time is an Inventive, Great Supernatural Thriller". STYD. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Zimmerman, Samuel. "“THE HOUSE AT THE END OF TIME” (Fantasia Movie Review)". Fangoria. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "“La casa del fin de los tiempos” triunfó en Festival Binacional de Cine Colombia–Venezuela". Noticia al Dia. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

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