![]() ![]() The American magazine Newsweek, referenced by NME, is more cautious and while acknowledging that the case is real, likens the event to the similar pop-culture phenomenon and urban legend The Amityville Horror. Her house allegedly became haunted after her death according to the British magazine NME. The film was inspired when Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro (1973–1991) reportedly suffered hallucinations and seizures after performing the séance at a school in Madrid to try to contact her friend's deceased boyfriend who had died six months earlier. It is explained that the movie is based on the true events of the first police report in Spain where a police officer certifies having witnessed paranormal activity. As the detective watches a photograph of Verónica suddenly catch fire, he is informed that she has died.įive years later in 1996, he reports of unexplained paranormal activity having occurred in Madrid. The medics carry her and Antoñito out while a shaken detective observes the scene. The police enter to find her being attacked by an invisible force and passing out. She attempts to end the possession by slitting her own throat but is prevented by the demon. Verónica looks at herself in the mirror and sees the demon, realizing she has been possessed by the demon the entire time, and had been harming her siblings under its control. Her brother is actually hiding in a closet. However, she sees that she is not actually holding Antoñito but had imagined it. She calls the police and escapes with her siblings. When she tells the spirit to say goodbye, it refuses. She has Antoñito draw the protective symbols on the walls, but he flips to the wrong page and instead draws symbols of invocation. Rosa reveals that at the séance, Verónica whispered that she herself would die in five days.ĭesperate, Verónica decides to hold the séance with her siblings. Verónica asks Rosa and Diana to hold another séance, but they refuse. Verónica can force the spirits to leave by doing right what she did wrong as it is important to say goodbye to the spirit at the end of a séance. Sister Death tells Verónica that she used to see dark spirits when she was younger, and intentionally blinded herself in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the visions. She also finds on each of the kids' mattresses a large burn mark in the shape of a human body. ![]() As she scrubs her mattress, she finds burn marks on the underside. Verónica wakes up to find that she's on her first period. She tries to help Lucia when the spirit chokes her, but Lucia says it was Verónica who was choking her. Verónica draws protective Viking symbols for the kids, only for the demon to destroy them. Looking for answers, she goes back to the school basement and finds the school's elderly blind nun whom the students call "Sister Death." The nun explains that the séance attached a dark spirit to her and tries to compel the spirit to leave, but nothing happens. Verónica begins experiencing paranormal occurrences and her friends avoid her. She wakes in the school nurse's office, who tells her she probably passed out from iron deficiency. ![]() Verónica becomes unresponsive, whispering something repeatedly, then lets out a demonic scream. Verónica's hand remains on it, and at the moment of the eclipse, the cup shatters, cutting her finger and dripping blood onto the board. Rosa and Diana pull their hands back when the glass cup becomes too hot. Verónica wants to reach out to her late father, and Diana her late boyfriend, who died in a motorcycle accident. Verónica and her friends Rosa and Diana go into the basement to conduct a séance using a Ouija board. On the day of the solar eclipse, her teacher explains how some ancient cultures used eclipses to stage human sacrifices and summon dark spirits. Their father recently died and their mother works long hours at a bar to support the family, leaving Verónica in charge of her younger siblings: twins Lucia and Irene, and Antoñito. Verónica is a 15-year-old girl living with her mother and three young siblings in an apartment in the working-class district of Vallecas, Madrid. She sounds panicked and screams about something coming to get her brother before the call cuts off. ![]() The film opens in 1991 in medias res, with emergency services responding to a call from a young girl. It is loosely based on true events from the 1991 Vallecas case where Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro died mysteriously after she used a ouija board. Veronica (Spanish: Verónica) is a 2017 Spanish supernatural horror film directed by Paco Plaza which stars Sandra Escacena alongside Claudia Placer, Bruna González, Iván Chavero and Ana Torrent. ![]()
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