Veronica

6.2/10
Drama
2017
1h 45m
PG-13

a Spanish supernatural horror film directed by Paco Plaza, inspired by true events. Set in Madrid during a 1991 solar eclipse, the film follows a teenage girl whose attempt to contact her dead father through a Ouija board unleashes a terrifying presence that threatens her family and her sanity.

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Set in Madrid in 1991, Verónica (2017) unfolds under the shadow of a solar eclipse, a cosmic interruption that mirrors the emotional darkness about to descend upon a fragile household. Verónica is a fifteen-year-old girl living in a modest apartment with her three younger siblings and an exhausted single mother struggling to survive long shifts at work. The film begins grounded in realism — school corridors, crowded buses, dim apartments — until curiosity and grief pull Verónica toward something she cannot control. Still mourning her father’s recent death, she participates in an improvised Ouija session at school, hoping to speak with him one last time. What begins as adolescent rebellion becomes a spiritual rupture, as the planchette moves with force, the glass shatters, and Verónica collapses in terror. From that moment onward, the boundaries between the living world and something far more ancient begin to dissolve, and the film quietly locks the audience inside Verónica’s point of view, where fear grows not from spectacle but from inevitability.

As the days pass, Verónica’s body and mind begin to change. She experiences seizures, shadowed visions, and a presence that follows her even in daylight. Her apartment, once a place of safety, becomes hostile — hallways stretch unnaturally long, doors open on their own, and unseen hands tug at the edges of reality. More disturbing than the apparitions is the responsibility forced upon her: she must protect her siblings while her mother remains absent, unaware of the war unfolding at home. The supernatural threat becomes deeply personal, intertwined with Verónica’s guilt, grief, and fear of adulthood. Director Paco Plaza uses sound design, darkness, and silence to transform ordinary domestic spaces into psychological traps. The horror creeps rather than explodes, allowing dread to build slowly as Verónica realizes the entity did not arrive by accident — it followed her invitation, and it wants more than fear.

The final act descends into pure nightmare as the presence reveals its true nature, manipulating Verónica’s love for her siblings and turning sacrifice into temptation. Religious symbolism, childhood innocence, and maternal absence converge in a devastating climax where protection demands a price. Verónica’s struggle becomes both spiritual and emotional, a coming-of-age twisted into martyrdom. The film closes not with relief but with tragedy, anchoring its supernatural terror in a chilling reality: the story is inspired by one of Spain’s most infamous real police reports involving unexplained phenomena after a teenager’s death. Verónica (2017) lingers long after the screen fades to black, not because of what it shows, but because of what it suggests — that grief can open doors, belief can invite darkness, and growing up sometimes means facing horror alone.