A Mother’s Embrace (2024) [Beyond Fest 2024] [Halloween Horror Month]

A woman working with the local firefighters’ rescue team who is called to a retirement home due to the building being unstable and needing to be evacuated finds that the task will be much more complex than expected and that perhaps the evacuation is not why they were called there.  

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The Elderly (Viejos) (2023)

Raúl Cerezo, and Fernando González Gómez’s horror thriller may not be the most entertaining genre film, but it certainly is one of the most depressing movies about aging I’ve ever seen. With movies like “The Elderly,” although there is almost certainly another horror element waiting around the corner, the pair of directors are keen on depicting aging and being elderly as perhaps the most horrific circumstance to ever find ones self in. “The Elderly” is a lot about this inexplicable series of events involving the local elderly population, many of whom are becoming violent toward their family and toward themselves.

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