El páramo, a debut film with 8 million viewers on Netflix

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Few matters are as disconcerting as that called success. It is unlikely that Lovecraft was referring to it when he endeavored to name the unnameable, but neither should it be ruled out entirely. "I can't even hint at what it was like, because it was a compound of everything that is impure, terrifying, unwanted, abnormal and detestable," wrote the author of Providence and

would not hesitate to agree with him. Blindly. In fact, his debut feature

for a week on

, deals with the same clarity of that nameless creature that so obsessed the author of

as that capricious goddess that is the same success.

El páramo

is a horror film, but it is also a psychological

, a traditional agrarian story, a

and, if necessary, a psychoanalyst tragedy with autobiographical traces.

So indefinable.

«The idea was always to tell a universal story that concerns us all equally regardless of our origin or place of birth, but without giving up anchoring it in a very specific place.

, reasons the 37-year-old director who, after graduating from ESCAC in Barcelona and gaining experience in several short films, launched himself seven years ago into the colossal task of succeeding.

Seven years, one after the other, he has been working on a project that, suddenly and in the face of the most obvious bewilderment, has achieved that as bewildering as success.

According to the latest data handled by

, the tape has been viewed for a total of

This is how it is measured on the platforms: by meters. If a simple rule of three is made, a total of eight million "views" come out around the world since it was released last Kings Day. "We're told it's the

at the moment," he says, simultaneously impressed, confused, happy, and obviously baffled.

And now the question: why? «I imagine that it is not difficult to recognize oneself in the most elementary: it is the story of a mother and a son. And there we are all." On the other hand, it should be added, the film talks about loneliness, isolation, isolation... Isn't the pandemic that we have been experiencing for too long already about this? "I recognize that when we started shooting we incorporated into the film a lot of what we were experiencing or had experienced in confinement and that perhaps it was not so explicitly in the original text," he says.

Be that as it may, what you see on the screen, you barely get to see.

Everything in

runs in an elegant, suggestive and very wise ellipsis that wants to be, as Lovecraft said again, «the abyss, the maelstrom, the final abomination...».

give life to a couple harassed by an eternal fear as evident in the cloudy landscape as it is deeply entangled in the depths of their bowels.

And in the middle of them, the boy

whom we already saw in

by

.

His wide open eyes see everything while barely seeing anything.

His eyes are two black mirrors that reflect the terrifying, the nameless.

And, pending them, success as the most disconcerting of provocations.

The director says that the story has a lot to do with what he saw at home when he was just 15 years old: the slow degradation until the death of his father was there forever.

With his father, David also watched the horror movies that marked him.

or

run through the screen like ghosts.

And with them, a good part of

's cinema and even

.

«I could not stop quoting a director who fascinates me.

Mel Gibson's ability in

to make an immersive experience is unique”, he comments, taking a second and adding: “The rare thing is that a film designed exclusively to be enjoyed on a cinema screen succeeds on television”.

More bewilderment.

Be that as it may, and just over a year ago

, by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, the truth is that

is there to turn common places on its head;

to discuss set phrases, to transform a deeply personal story into the most universal of tragedies;

to name perhaps, the unnameable.

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