¡QUÉ HORROR! 2018
Candidate #12
MUSE
(October 2017)
“The saddest of all stages for the saddest of all endings.”
One year after a personal tragedy, Professor Samuel
Salomon (Da Vinci’s Demons’ Elliot
Cowan, currently appearing on Krypton)
has a premonitory dream of a ritual murder, and faster than you can say “Abandon
all hope, all ye who enter here,” the hijinx of an occult investigation ensue.
Based on José Carlos Somoza’s novel, La dama
número trece, Muse is Jaume Balagueró’s
latest, and for those of you who frequent the Iguana, you’ll be familiar with
my long-standing yen for Señor Balagueró’s work.
Delving the way it does into the supernatural potency
of words (with a brief aside to the explosive
potential of Neruda), Muse plays
almost like a love letter to poetry, but in the form of a dark fantasy/horror
movie.
Anyone who favors the structures and conventions of
a traditional occult tale will also find a lot to love in Muse…
Plus, Franka Potente, Christopher Lloyd, and Joanne
Whalley are in this too, so, yeah, give this one a look-see!
“The end of this story has already been written.”
(Muse OS
courtesy of bloody-disgusting.com; Musa
Spanish OS courtesy of screenanarchy.com.)
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