La Casa del Fin de los Tiempos
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| La casa del fin de los tiempos | |
| Directed by | Alejandro Hidalgo |
| Produced by | Alejandro Hidalgo |
| Written by | Alejandro Hidalgo |
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| Music by | Yoncarlos Medina |
| Cinematography | Cezary Jaworski |
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| Country | Venezuela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | $4.4 million (Venezuela) |
The House at the End of Time (Spanish: La casa del fin de los tiempos) is a 2013 Venezuelan horror-suspense film directed by Alejandro Hidalgo. The film had its world premiere on June 17, 2013, at the Venezuelan Film Festival. The film has been well received in its country of origin, where it grossed $4.4 million and became the highest grossing horror film ever released in Venezuela. laverdad.com After a festival run in which it won various awards, it had distribution in countries like the US, Germany, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Spain, and others.
In 1981, Dulce (Ruddy Rodríguez) lived in an old house with her sons Leopoldo (Rosmel Bustamante) and Rodrigo (Hector Mercado), and her husband Juan José (Gonzalo Cubero). Amid strange supernatural phenomena, her family is attacked. Dulce, bleeding from a wound on her face, regains consciousness and races downstairs to protect her family. In the cellar, she finds Juan José dead of a stab wound, and Leopoldo disappears into thin air after being mysteriously pulled through a doorway.
When her prints are found on the murder weapon, Dulce is arrested and imprisoned. Thirty years later, an elderly Dulce is released from jail—under the requirement that she serve the rest of her sentence under house arrest in the very house where the murders took place. Once settled, Dulce is visited by a local priest (Guillermo Garcia) who wants to restore her faith in God. When the priest expresses his own faith in her innocence, she enlists his help to learn the truth.
Investigating the house's history in the library, the priest learns that an English Freemason built the house a hundred years earlier, only to disappear mysteriously. Subsequent news reports indicate frequent disappearances. Dulce claims the house to be haunted after she sees an elderly man scrawl a series of elevens on her mirror, but the police instead accuse her of being crazy. The priest arrives in time to stop Dulce from committing suicide, and, with the house's history, convinces her that she may yet rescue her Leopoldo.
In 1981, Leopoldo and Rodrigo play with the local children. Rodrigo develops a crush on a girl, and Leopoldo devises a secret handshake with his best friend. After an apparent intruder in the house vanishes, Dulce becomes worried when Leopoldo hands her a note he says comes from a ghost. The note warns her that she must prevent her children from playing together for the next few days and accuses Juan José of attempting to murder Leopoldo in the future. Juan José dismisses the note and allows the children to play together. During a baseball game, Leopoldo is responsible for a freak accident that kills Rodrigo.
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