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H0us3 (2018)
An amazing and engrossing experience of a minimalist genre film!
Finding out to what an enormous degree technology can dominate a person isn't shocking anymore today (in the context of science fiction art at all), but Manolo Munguio managed to provide me an impressively shocking experience in his only film so far.
Although the alternative point with a twist in the last sentence allows a double perception of the conclusion, in both versions message of "h0us3" has a chilling effect on me, whether it is a view of an application with tempting and at the same time dangerous possibilities of unimaginable dimensions or just potential manipulation using already real technological possibilities, effective after all even in the circle of well-rounded experts.
"h0us3", with its ingenious construction moving from a relaxing comedy to an increasingly dense thriller (with a scene of fire or a stuffed wolf with horror elements), evokes for me the mastery of gradation, endings and points that I am used to from Alfred Hitchcock and directors related to him. I can easily compare my experience after the end with more than one genre classic.
Excellent civilian acting underlines the quality, I especially liked the actor in the character of Rafa (Rubèn Serrano). Although I hadn't interested to the IT topic in some other sci-fi films (e.g. Traveling Salesman, 2012), in "h0us3" I already enjoyed the first third of movie full of humorous conversations about social networks, technology or programming, even with verbal references to many older famous sci-fi or games with guessing passwords. Ih that moments, H0us3 seemed to me like "Perfect Strangers" (2016) moving to a "higher" level.
The topic thus becomes easily accessible and comprehensible to complete laymen, and the processing clearly fulfills the essence of science fiction genre in the form of advancing current scientific knowledge to the previously impossible.
Later on in the script, I could also admire how much even seemingly secondary or originally purely humorous references take on additional meaning later on. And at the same time, in the last third, I was thrown into such a tense tension and fear, as I have not seen in a movie for a long time.