I hope director Jerónimo Rocha eventually turns his idea for “Dèdalo” in to a feature length horror film. While I love “Dèdalo” all on its own, I’d love to learn more about the specifics behind this narrative, and how these monsters spawned. The monsters presented in this nightmarish feature seem almost bred out of oil and muck, and they seem to infect those around them with this crude substance that makes their victims deformed prey. “Dèdalo” begins on a very strong note as we witness young Siena climbing along the side of a Space Freighter/Refinery.
Wounded and very torn after what seems like a hellish fight for survival, she seeks out a medical kit lying alongside the body of one of her shipmates. While one of the disgusting beasts on the ship feasts on a lost comrade, she looks to inject herself with some kind of antidote that can perhaps cure her of what seems to be an infection that’s made right hand black as coal. But the situation become more difficult as she tries to cure herself without being heard, and out wit the creature only inches away from her.
“Dèdalo” has a marvelous atmosphere and sense of mood behind it, making it feel like a nightmare. It definitely draws its inspiration from “Alien” even borrowing the strobe light effect that gives director Rocha’s short an added layer of menace and terror. “Dèdalo” is a wonderful short horror film that uses its apparent influences to enhance its narrative and concept; I’d love to see director Jerónimo Rocha use this as material for a feature length production. I think “Dèdalo” could become a classic.