Everyone Will Burn (2021)

August 2, 2024 11:14 AM

[TRAILER] In a small village in Leon, Spain, María José prepares to end her life after failing to get over the death of her son years before. Everything changes when she receives a visit from Lucía, a strange little girl who might be connected to a local legend about stopping an impending apocalypse. With the enigmatic girl by her side, María José faces the corrupt community, triggering strange events and a series of horrific deaths among the local population. Original title: Y todos arderán.

Starring Macarena Gómez, Rodolfo Sancho, Ana Milán, Rubén Ochandiano, Sofía García.

Directed by David Hebrero. Screenplay by David Hebrero, Javier Kirán, Produced by David Hebrero, Javier Kirán, Enrique García-Gasco, Deja Gordon for Nostalgia Shop Films. Cinematography by Ona Isart. Edited by María Macias. Music by Joan Vilá.

84% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Currently playing in the US on Hoopla, Roku, and Pluto. JustWatch.

posted by DirtyOldTown (3 comments total)

This was dark and weird. It didn't hit every beat dead-on, but it was unlike anything else I've seen, like a telenovela festered into an A24 horror film or something.

I'm likely to watch this again and am 100% locked-in to see this writer/director's next film.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:19 AM on August 2 [1 favorite]

It's like an inverse folk horror. City dweller feels uncomfortable in rural village, eerie folkloric weirdness starts going down, people are punished for their hubris. Just, why is the urban protagonist automatically the one with the hubris? What don't the smug, narrow-minded village assholes ever get it in the neck?

The movie's darker and more complex than I'm making it sound, especially for our protagonist. But... if you've ever watched Wicker Man and wished those jerkasses would stop folk singing for one goddamn minute, you may get a touch of catharsis.
posted by ormondsacker at 1:04 AM on August 3 [2 favorites]

I'm rewatching this now and it's not at all a perfect movie. The everyone-has-their-secrets melodrama won't work for everyone and the whole thing is clearly ten to twenty minutes too long.

I still enjoy it. Absolute jaw dropper of an opening and a good ending, too.

I really like ormondsacker's take on it, re: folk horror tropes.

My favorite part is how Mariajo gradually groks what is happening and signs on without ever having it spelled out or having a moment of realization.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:42 AM on August 3