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This villain, however, is not a fictional one.
Thats not even the craziest element in Larrains movie, which is premiering in Venice this week.
It might be the most perverse project Netflix has ever signed off on.
Larrains Pinochet is actually a Frenchman born to unknown parents in 18th-century France.
It transforms and transmogrifies.
The film is also something of a comic family melodrama, believe it or not.
Pinochets children have converged on his home, worried as they are about the state of their inheritance.
Carmen also happens to be an exorcist, but her exorcisms are as much financial as they are spiritual.
The idea of a politician as a vampire isnt new.
Larrain goes much further.
He embraces genre, and he embraces gore.
The blood is everywhere collecting on floors, leaving thick streaks, dripping down cheeks and chins.
The films finale is practically a miasma of beheadings.
The director doesnt play coy with any of this stuff.
The so-called western democracies of the U.S. and the U.K. are calm, hermetically sealed worlds.
Anyway, itll be on Netflix in a couple of weeks.
