Devil's Drain

Over the past 20 years, independent films have increased dramatically, especially in a genre much loved by young people: horror. In this context, the stories that have been proposed, for at least 10 years now, are usually centered on two fundamental themes: serial killers and haunted houses. There are very good products from the point of view of tension and surprise, the problem is that there is no longer a real plot, but a series of scares. The stories all look alike and lack a true artistic depth and content to discuss. DEVIL'S DRAIN is completely different from all this, being a film with an extremely complex dramatic plot and fundamentally based on psychoanalytic allegories. It has nothing to do with the immediacy and stylistic simplicity of the many photocopied films, that every year always propose the same canvas, with the sole purpose of transmitting a thrill to the viewer through the classic twist, so exploited and presented in different sauces. But by now everyone knows when it arrives. A leap in the chair, a liberating smile, and everything passed like water on marble, with the total absence of content to reflect on. DEVIL'S DRAIN is a hallucinating journey into the terrible meanders of mental disorders, childhood traumas and unpredictable mechanics of the unconscious. It is not comparable to any other horror film, but it is a visionary and abstract work of art that inhabits a world of its own, light years away from the disposable meteors produced in a schematic way, for an audience addicted to the lack of ideas. They perhaps has forgotten that cinema is still an art.