Television is a haunted house in this playful and creepy game of reality and fiction.
Night after night, a family is tormented by a presence in their home. The parents have a hard time connecting to their son and are eagerly awaiting the return of their daughter. But their house looks like a television studio, surrounded by darkness. Are they actors? And who’s behind the camera?
Ghost story meets media horror in Argentinian director Cristian Ponce’s Family Fears Another Night of Terror, with the tv itself becoming a haunted house. As in many of his previous films, Ponce walks the line between fiction and reality and examines the role of the spectator. The darkness surrounding the characters and the eerie interventions from analogue devices (tv, radio, a record player) heighten the sense of dread. The terrifying anticipation of learning what’s out there in the shadows transforms watching into a specific kind of haunting.
