'La Casa de Las Siete Tumbas' (1982) – Pedro Stocki.

Talented Argentinian director, Pedro Stocki's compelling psychodrama 'La Casa de Las Siete Tumbas' remains a divinely skewed, especially off-kilter delight! An increasingly sinister journey into the distempered, introverted mind of beautiful, Clara (Soledad Silveyra) whose childhood companion, Cecilia (Cecilia Cenci) mysteriously forms part of an elaborate, fascinatingly unsettling narrative. Deep-seated childhood trauma, sexual awakening, and escalating neuroses torment the fragile, distraught, permanently housebound, Clara. Cecilia visits Clara on her birthday, noting that she appears withdrawn, anxious, increasingly obsessed with a singularly emotional event from their past. Cecilia's arrival disturbingly provides a powerful catalyst for, Clara's doomy reverie, roiling evilly with vividly strange, greatly disturbing dioramas, backwoods horror, psychological discords and bizarre Black Magic machinations!

'La Casa De Las Siete Tumbas' is a truly rare treat, a mad, bafflingly unheralded Euro-chiller that mines a singularly uncompromising reservoir of mental anguish like, Polanksi's 'The Tenant' and Larraz's 'Symptoms'. Much of the film's strident originality resides primarily in the beguilingly oblique screenplay by gifted writer, Laura Garavano. A gorgeously confounding delirium of ceaseless mystery and potently Lynchian weirdness, her gruesomely 3-dimensional 'Pig Girl', once seen, is not readily forgotten! Director, Stocki is blessed with a fabulous cast who create a very believable milieu of writer, Garavano's altogether macabre imagination! The exquisite soundtrack, by Jorge Candia is worthy of a Morricone or Cipriani, his elegiac theme draws you deeply into this macabre miasma of screaming madness!