Talented Argentinian director Pedro Stocki's downright disturbing psychodrama 'La Casa de Las Siete Tumbas' which is a divinely skewed nightmare, an increasingly sinister journey into the distempered, introverted mind of beautiful Clara (Soledad Silveyra) whose childhood friend Cecilia (Cecilia Cenci) forms part of a very elaborate, profoundly unsettling narrative of long-fulminating childhood trauma, darkly sexual awakening, rapidly escalating neuroses as the terribly fragile, deeply distraught, permanently housebound Clara, and when her friend Cecilia visits her on her birthday, Clara seems terribly withdrawn, anxious, seemingly obsessed with a singularly emotional event from their past, this benign birthday visit curiously acting as a powerful catalyst for a doomy reverie, filled with vividly strange, frequently disturbing dioramas, backwoods horror, psychological discords and wholly bizarre Black magic machinations make Pedro Stocki's 'La Casa de Las Siete Tumbas' an especially off-kilter delight.
'La Casa De Las Siete Tumbas' is a rare discovery, a grossly unheralded thriller that mines a singularly uncompromising reservoir of mental anguish like Polanksi's 'The Tenant' and Larraz's 'Symptoms'. The film's strident originality resides primarily in the fascinatingly oblique screenplay by gifted writer Laura Garavano, a gorgeously confounding delirium of ceaseless mystery and potent Lynchian weirdness, her gruesomely 3-dimensional 'Pig Girl', once seen is not readily forgotten! Director Stocki is blessed with a fabulous cast who create a very believable milieu out of these altogether macabre manifestations and the exquisite soundtrack by Jorge Candia is worthy of a Morricone or Cipriani, the elegiac theme draws you deeply into this mercurial miasma of screaming madness!