Beautifully shot in 99.9% B&W from a very leftist perspective about the eternal legacy of power, corruption, greed and wealth using vampirism as a metaphor. Here the church in the embodiment of a condescending nun, who though in nature should be the liberator of vampire souls, is in reality secretly in pursuit of the same forces through lust. It's really quite bizzare, surreal, expressionistic, kind of incomprehensible and black as black comedy can be. The humor can suddenly jump at you and make you laugh and it has some famous political figures in it to set its political stance. Watch it if you want to experience something mesmerizing but weird from the other dimension.

It is a strange film which is hard to fit any label or classification. It has great merits, but still disappointed my expectations. It also travels through multiple genres not fitting well any of them, for better or worse: gore horror, dark humour comedy, political satire, and even political thriller. Visually, the movie is very nice and Pinochet's portrayal is astonishing (how similar with the military devil makeup turned Jaime Vadell!). I loved all the vampire origin stories in Ancien Régime. It was also quite good to have a timeline drawn through Haiti, Cuba, Russia (Pinoche always against the revolutionaires)... it would be great if it were more explored indeed. The bad character of all members of the family and of the torturer butler was well depicted. However, the film also has serious drawbacks. The script is unbalanced and should have been tighter. Pace is irregular, alternating awesome moments with quite sluggish parts. The behaviour of the characters seemed too inconsistent too, being hard to understand their motivations, and not because they were deceiving them. The interviews by the exorcist nun were slightlty unconvincing as sonething to actually happen, but they did allow the script to mock and denounce a lot the multiple crimes (from corruption to murder) of Pinochet's family and their impunity.

We discover through the narration of Margaret Thatcher that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is in fact a 250 year old vampire who has decided it is time to finally die. His loyal butler, also a vampire - an honour bestowed by his boss - flies out at night into Santiago to kill young people and drink their blood. Fearing that their father is responsible and determined to get their inheritance, they hire a nun, Carmen to 'exorcise' and kill him. However Pinochet falls in love with Carmen.

Visually stunning and with a quite beautiful script, this wickedly funny and deeply dark story looking at all these appalling people justifying their existence and all the terrible things they've done is a glorious, albeit very strange treat. The performances by the leads, delivering the gold plated script, are universally excellent and you get really sucked in (I apologise) enjoying the story of this vile man and his family and cohorts. Special mention for Stella Gonet who narrates the whole thing beautifully before putting in an unexpected appearance towards the end - she is magnificent. Unique, deeply weird, grisly, beautiful disturbing and great fun.