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This film is bonkers in the best way! Here's a fantastical film that proposes that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was a vampire, and he is now 250 years old and has determined it's time to die. He gathers his adult children and his wife who are primarily concerned with inheritance, and one member of the family invites a Christian nun to exorcise the demon and murder him. Of course the nun is charmed by Pinochet and they end up becoming intimate, and he turns her into a vampire! More shenanigans ensue, but the movie is charming, funny, and totally engaging. The characters and the plot are so engaging in this film, it's a spoof of the vampire genre but has terrific twists and turns throughout. The film is clever and rarely gory nor about classic vampire tropes. When I saw that there was a nominee that is a vampire picture, I was not happy. This is not my genre. Yet El Conde turns the genre so on its head that I was shocked to discover that I really enjoyed it.
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