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\"White<\/a>
White Coffin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\nSeen at Fantasia 2016, Montreal (Canada)<\/a>

\nFormat:<\/B> Cinema

\nDirector:<\/B> Daniel de la Vega

\nWriters:<\/B> Ramiro García Bogliano, Adrian García Bogliano

\nCast:<\/B> Julieta Cardinali, Rafa Ferro, Fiorela Duranda, Damián Dreizik, Veronica Intile

\nArgentina 2016

\n71 mins\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In his latest offering, the Argentinian director Daniel de la Vega takes us into some delightfully juicy territory.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

***½ out of *****<\/b><\/p>\n

Who in their right mind doesn’t<\/i> love George Sluizer’s 1988 shocker The Vanishing<\/i> (aka Spoorloos<\/i>)? It’s the Dutch suspense classic in which a man obsessively searches for his girlfriend who disappears without a trace at a roadside pitstop. As great and perfect as Sluizer’s picture is, Argentinian director Daniel de la Vega (working from a zanily inspired screenplay by the Bogliano Brothers) takes us into some delightfully juicy territory in White Coffin<\/I>, which enjoyed its World Premiere at Fantasia 2016 in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Imagine The Vanishing<\/i>, wherein a smelly guy is substituted with a hot babe searching for her sweet little girl amongst a sect of evil-infused torture-hounds. Add plenty of supernatural frissons, a wham-bam no-nonsense 70-minute running time and some to-die-for action and you get the rich cocktail of powerful 100-proof homebrew that is White Coffin<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Shaken, of course. Not stirred. Belt it back and allow your nerves to be jangled and definitely not soothed.<\/p>\n

Virginia (Julieta Cardinali) is taking a powder from her abusive hubby with cute-as-a-button daughter Rebecca (Fiorela Duranda) in tow. Hightailing it across the Pampas, the duo encounter a strange fork-in-the-road from which they’re warned off by Mason (Rafael Ferro), a hunky gaucho who appears to be taking far too much interest in them. When they arrive at a pitstop on the highway, the worst thing any parent can imagine occurs. Sweet little Rebecca disappears without a trace.<\/p>\n

Luckily for Virginia (and mostly for the audience), she spots a glimpse of her daughter through the window of a souped-up tow truck and we’re treated to one of the most delightfully hair-raising chase scenes I’ve seen in sometime. (It’s up there with the recent and decidedly overblown Jason Bourne<\/i> chases, but happily sans the herky-jerky of that otherwise dull blockbuster.)<\/p>\n

There’s no point ruining some of the surprises in store, suffice to say that the outcome of the chase brings a return of Gaucho Mason who mysteriously appears ever so often to dispense cryptic advice and guide our hot heroine through a labyrinth of horror and suspense, which also involves a dangerous game played by two other hot mamas also missing their<\/i> kids.<\/p>\n

All I will promise you is white knuckle suspense, a perplexing puzzle of evil, a passel of devil-worshipping inbreds, detailed instructions on how to build a white coffin (in case you should need this yourself whilst vacationing in lovely Argentina), vice-like direction to manage all these elements of horror and, most importantly, you will enjoy some first-rate cat fights, with babes, naturally. The latter treat is like a jarful of maraschino cherries dumped into this mega-fun concoction of witches\u2019 brew.<\/p>\n

Greg Klymkiw<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n

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In his latest offering, the Argentinian director Daniel de la Vega takes us into some delightfully juicy territory.
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