Finding surprising new life in the found-footage horror genre, Paco Plaza’s “[Rec]” movies (the first two co-directed with Jaume Belaguero) looked like a fantasy franchise with the potential to get better and better.
That is, until parts 3 and 4 disappointed sufficiently to end the series with a whimper.
Released online without any advance publicity by Netflix, “Veronica” proves helmer-coscenarist Plaza certainly still has the chops to remain a player among global genre talents.
But this somewhat long-winded tale of demonic invasion in a Madrid household is just a partial bounce-back: Its ideas aren’t ultimately original enough or its scares potent enough to suggest Plaza wouldn’t benefit from trying his directorial hand at someone else’s screenplay.After a teaser opening in which police respond to a panicked call from some children (arriving to witness a scene whose horror remains off-screen for the next 90 minutes or so), we rewind 76 hours.
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