If you love horror films like The Conjuring, Annabelle, and The Ring, then we’re pretty sure you’ll lap up Verónica, a Spanish film that’s currently available to stream of Netflix.
Released online in 2017 to very little fanfare, Verónica is loosely based on the real-life story of Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro, a teenage girl whose final days and mysterious death have become part of popular Spanish mythology.
It all started in 1991, when Lázaro performed a séance at her school in a bid to contact her friend’s deceased boyfriend. This led to a series of events that have remained largely unexplained, including her untimely death, as well as the Spanish police’s report of the happenings at her supposedly-haunted home, like loud noises from unidentified sources, crucifixes breaking of their own accord, and stains that appeared and grew out of nowhere.
Directed by Paco Plaza, the film changes a few things around. For example, it begins with a call to the emergency services, in which the girl playing Verónica, sounds extremely distressed. It then rewinds to three days earlier when she, as well as two other friends, take advice from one of their teachers to use a Ouija board to contact Verónica’s dead father during a solar eclipse.
According to online sources, the film is so frightening that only one person out of every 100 who’ve watched it managed to finish it. We are certainly up for the challenge, though, and we thought some of you would be, too.
Before you do get comfy for a night of Netflix & chill to the bone, you may want to check out the trailer.