The Night

Inti Carrizo-Ortiz's debut feature depicts the apocalypse on a shoestring on the streets of Chile. When an unnatural blackness descends one night and doesn't relent, the population of Santiago find themselves driven by their darkest impulses. Gabriel (Carlos Talamilla) and Carmen (Carmen Disa Gutierrez) try to fight the violent oppressions that the blackness brings, but find it may be better to drift over to the dark side. This tense, apocalyptic psychological thriller works both as an inventive take on the zombie film, and as a strident metaphor for Chilean history and the collapse of social ...