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[Screens Oct. 17 at 7:15 p.m. as part of the Screamfest Horror Film Festival that runs Oct. 10-19 at the TCL Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028; for more information, log on to https://screamfestla.com.] After his wannabe veterinarian 13-year-old son (Moisés Ruiz) is accidentally killed with a stray bullet in the 1970s and his distraught, depressed mother (Ruth Díaz) commits suicide in F. Javier Gutierrez's powerful, poignant, well-written, terrifically acted, moving, languid-paced, 102-minute thriller, a guilt-ridden Spanish groundskeeper (Víctor Clavijo) for the wild-boar-hunting estate of a wealthy, cold-hearted landowner (Pedro Casablanc) in the Andalusian countryside then loses his job, becomes nightmare-plagued, and desperately tries to maintain his grip with reality as he learns a disturbing, shocking truth.
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