Estonian premiere

Venus

Local title
Venus
Director
Jaume Balagueró
Country
Spain
Year
2022
Programme
Midnight Shivers
Genre
horror film
Subject
superstition, surrealism

When go-go dancer Lucía nicks a fortune in designer drugs from her mafia employers, the mobsters’ dogged pursuit forces her to seek sanctuary with her estranged sister Rocío and niece Alba in “The Venus,” a decrepit apartment complex on the outskirts of Madrid. As terrible, rotten, no-good luck would have it, Lucía soon finds herself sole guardian to little Alba after Rocío suddenly flies the concrete coop, unable to handle the supernatural stress of living in a monolith that is apparently also host to a malignant evil — one that invades its tenants’ waking nightmares.

Taking a few cues from H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House,” "Venus" piles on the blood and bombshells like a double bill of "Demons 2" and "The Sentinel".

Director
Jaume Balagueró
Screenwriter
Jaume Balagueró, Fernando Navarro
Cast
Ester Expósito, Ángela Cremonte, Inés Fernández, Federico Aguado, Fernando Valdivielso
Producer
Álex de la Iglesia, Carolina Bang
DoP
Pablo Rosso
Editor
Luis De La Madrid
Composer
Vanessa Garde
Production
Pokeepsie Films
World sales
Sony Pictures International Productions Inc.
Runtime
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
English
Other festivals
San Sebastian, Toronto

Screenings

7th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening030504 / Venus
SubtitlesEnglish
Q&A guestsJaume Balaguero Bernat (Film Director)
Q&A duration
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Hall Athena Center, Tartu
Screening132102 / Venus
SubtitlesEnglish
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3rd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening161205 / Venus
SubtitlesEnglish
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