The lonely Estrella (Nerea Inchausti) is an intelligent teenager and good student but is outcast in school. She spends most of her time alone in school or at home, reading horror books or watching horror movies, while her widow mother Angela (Goya Toledo) works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and Vampire (Eduardo Farelo). Angela has an unresolved trauma and has kink sex with strangers in the hospital or with the gatekeeper of her building. When a detective meets Angela and tells her that a man that raped her had not died as she thought, the frightening Angela gets Estrella at the bus stop and once at home she prepares a pizza for them. However, Estrella invites her friend Vampire to join them, and when Angela sees her daughter's friend, she feels scary, haunted by her past.
"Películas Para No Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy" is a surreal, intriguing and original horror movie. The story of a smart teenager that is alone most of the time and has a fertile imagination uses drama, thriller and horror, and only unravels the mystery in the very last scene. The idea of inviting a serial-killer to come home was magnificently explored in "Satan's Little Helper", but the plots of these films are totally different. The surprising and ambiguous conclusion with a medium-class family watching television discloses the reality of each character. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Amigo Imaginário" ("Imaginary Friend")
"Películas Para No Dormir: Adivina Quién Soy" is a surreal, intriguing and original horror movie. The story of a smart teenager that is alone most of the time and has a fertile imagination uses drama, thriller and horror, and only unravels the mystery in the very last scene. The idea of inviting a serial-killer to come home was magnificently explored in "Satan's Little Helper", but the plots of these films are totally different. The surprising and ambiguous conclusion with a medium-class family watching television discloses the reality of each character. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Amigo Imaginário" ("Imaginary Friend")