Devorador de pecados
The Sin Eater, 2003
Brian Helgeland. Estados Unidos

The figure is tremendous, magnificent, disturbing and comes to us via the Apocrypha, Nordic sagas and the best episodes of Night Gallery: a being eats our sins, thus providing us -simply in exchange for our lives- with the straightest road to salvation. This figure, in the hands of Brian Helgeland, winner of an Oscar for the screenplay of no more no less than L. A. Confidential, and author of the script for Eastwood’s brutal Mystic River, becomes celluloid flesh and blood and lives among us in a movie related as a result of its disturbing, unhealthy, obscure manners, to titles as essential to our nightmares as The Exorcist and The Omen. It happens in Rome. Precisely there. Where the wolfess gave birth to Damien, the Antichrist...