A story of monstrous creatures who have survived the passing of the years a family that preserves their customs and manners of punishment up to the 21st century. This uncovers the story's underlying horror, while also serving as an invitation to find the film's various cinematic references. The opening dialog uses Murnau's Nosferatu as both a pretext and a mirrored view, with the knowledge that vampires have no reflection of their own. From the start it is understood that Olalla, the lead character played by Hesketh herself, could be a vampire. Amy Hesketh adapted Stevenson's work, and she's brought it to the screen using two separate timelines: present day La Paz, and an estate at the end of the nineteenth century. Hyde, the Scottish writer published, in 1885, the story of a wounded soldier that returns to Spain where he meets a lovely young woman, daughter of his host, who conceals a great mystery. A year before Robert Louis Stevenson would publish The Strange Case of Dr.
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