13 Exorcisms

This is a fairly suspenseful and horrifying story, based on a supposedly true flick . First film by directing director Jacobo Martinez in which he delves into the drama of a troubled teenager, tormented by an oppressive confessional upbringing and eventually suffering a deep possession . The movie begins well and grows more and more until the scary and eerie finale . After the strange behavior displayed by teenager Laura Villegas (María Romanillos) , she is a 16-year-old girl repressed by her environment, her parents , good-natured father Tomás (Urko Olozabal) and fanatic Catholic mother Carmen (Ruth Diaz) , who usually pressures her children to keep praying . Then , on a Halloween night, Laura and her friends go to a party at an abandoned building with an unsettling past , holding a séance to summon a murderous spirit , which seems to affect Laura in and an unusual way . From then on, a series of strange phenomena will disturb the family. Later on , the parents call a Vatican-sanctioned exorcist , Father Olmedo(José Sacristán), the only person who could not only answer these questions , but also put an end to the ordeal . Olmedo is one of the 15 priests authorized by the Vatican to perform exorcisms in Spain. The priest attempts to free her from possesion resulting in fateful consecuences . While her parents think that God is punishing her for performing profane acts . As the young girl is really possessed by a malevolant spirit until a surprising and astonishing final. The devil knows how to corrupt us ! . And you, do you believe in Hell?. Is she going crazy? Must she somehow pay for her sins? Or is she possessed by the devil?

Suspense , mystery , shocks and grisly horror is this Spanish horror film . This terrifying exploitation movie displays possession, witchcraft , eerie horror and disgusting Satanism . An acceptable horror picture, thanks to fine acting , tight pacing , well mounted edition and skillful special effects with decent make-up . William Friedkin's classic Exorcist spawned countless imitations , sequels and rip-offs , this ¨13 Exorcismos¨ is a late imitation but entertaining enough . A film inspired by a series of registered cases of exorcism in Spain in which veteran José Sacristán gives nice acting , playing a prestigious exorcist , an authorized priest to intervene in a case of demonic possession on a teen suffering weird and vivid visions that plague her .

Ramón Campos, producer and screenwriter of the film, says the following : ¨the idea to made this movie arose after realizing that no exorcism movies had been shot in Spain, so they began to document it from the last real case that happened in Burgos in 2014 backwards and we discovered many points in common¨. However , while it is true that contemporary Spanish cinema has not made films about exorcisms , this subgenre got some mediocre adaptations made at the same time in the Seventies , including the following : ¨Endemoniada¨ 1974 by Amando de Ossorio with Julián Mateos , ¨The Spiritist¨ 1975 with Vicente Parra, Maria Salerno and ¨Exorcismo¨ by Juan Bosch with Grace Mills , Paul Naschy or Jacinto Molina and ¨El juego del diablo¨ (1975) by Jorge Darnell with Imma de Santis .

The motion picture was professionally directed by Jacobo Martinez. The film was nominated for the best special effects at the 2023 Goya Awards and has the same creative team as the successful Malasaña 32.