Zombie apocalypse meets “Lord of the Flies” in “Parvulos,” the latest from adventurous Mexican genre specialist Isaac Ezban. Here, a familiar dystopian near-future of survival amid scarcity and violence is seen through the eyes of three underage brothers who’ve had to largely invent their own “new normal,” for lack of surviving adult minders.
By turns grotesque, whimsical, brutal and poignant, this episodic tale is more consistently interesting than riveting. Yet somehow its wayward, tonally diverse approach adds up to a distinctive hybrid that lingers in the mind, and should win over horror fans open to something more complicated than your basic undead gorefest. Not that there’s any lack of grisly (and gristly) content here.
A brief prologue of wildlife footage has a child talking in voiceover about lessons learned in Natural History class, though his father countered them by saying the only real constants in life are “family and change.
By turns grotesque, whimsical, brutal and poignant, this episodic tale is more consistently interesting than riveting. Yet somehow its wayward, tonally diverse approach adds up to a distinctive hybrid that lingers in the mind, and should win over horror fans open to something more complicated than your basic undead gorefest. Not that there’s any lack of grisly (and gristly) content here.
A brief prologue of wildlife footage has a child talking in voiceover about lessons learned in Natural History class, though his father countered them by saying the only real constants in life are “family and change.
- 8/7/2024
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Director Isaac Ezban continues exploring themes of family through a fantasy horror lens with his latest, Párvulos. As its title indicates, roughly translating to pre-schoolers or toddlers, the coming-of-age dystopian fable follows three young brothers, practically newborn babes, discovering the perils and pleasures of life after a world-ending pandemic. Ezban reinvigorates a well-worn setup and subgenre with style and poignancy, framing a classic zombie apocalypse story from the naïve, impressionable, and whimsical eyes of children.
Párvulos introduces one-legged teen Salvador (Farid Escalante Correa), downing worms as he sets about a bizarre series of chores while teaching younger brother Oliver (Leonardo Cervantes) and baby brother Benjamin (Mateo Ortega Casillas). The peculiar rituals aren’t the only sign that normalcy long ago ceased in this virus-ravaged world: decayed bodies hang in the yard in front of the boys’ rural country home. The brothers live in isolation, caught between childhood innocence and survival.
Párvulos introduces one-legged teen Salvador (Farid Escalante Correa), downing worms as he sets about a bizarre series of chores while teaching younger brother Oliver (Leonardo Cervantes) and baby brother Benjamin (Mateo Ortega Casillas). The peculiar rituals aren’t the only sign that normalcy long ago ceased in this virus-ravaged world: decayed bodies hang in the yard in front of the boys’ rural country home. The brothers live in isolation, caught between childhood innocence and survival.
- 7/30/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Actor best known as the warm and authoritative Colonel Potter in M*A*S*H
The actor Harry Morgan, who has died aged 96, was best known as Colonel Sherman T Potter, commander of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in M*A*S*H, the wonderfully witty and sharp television series set in an army camp during the Korean war. He played Potter, an expert surgeon and a father figure in the camp, from 1978 until 1983.
Those who knew Morgan from films alone might have been surprised by his warm and authoritative performance as Potter. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, as a supporting actor, he played runtish bad guys and worms that seldom turned. He gradually began to reveal a more likable side, as a musician buddy of Glenn Miller (James Stewart) in The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and in the typically bland 50s TV sitcom December Bride (1954-58). Later, he played...
The actor Harry Morgan, who has died aged 96, was best known as Colonel Sherman T Potter, commander of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in M*A*S*H, the wonderfully witty and sharp television series set in an army camp during the Korean war. He played Potter, an expert surgeon and a father figure in the camp, from 1978 until 1983.
Those who knew Morgan from films alone might have been surprised by his warm and authoritative performance as Potter. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, as a supporting actor, he played runtish bad guys and worms that seldom turned. He gradually began to reveal a more likable side, as a musician buddy of Glenn Miller (James Stewart) in The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and in the typically bland 50s TV sitcom December Bride (1954-58). Later, he played...
- 12/9/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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