She brought a friend to dinner. Now her family swears that friend never existed.
Chiara returns to the family farmhouse after many years, together with her friend Michela. An obscure incident had pushed her to leave, but now the old grudges finally seem to have been overcome. During the night Michela disappears. Chiara asks her family for help: "Who is Michela?", they reply. The girl had dinner with them, yet everyone says they have never seen her, Chiara is the only one who remembers her.
Acting
Jenny De Nucci's unraveling sanity is genuinely distressing to watch.
Direction
Abbate weaponizes farmhouse claustrophobia — every creak feels accusatory.
Director
Antonio Abbate
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Italian 'giallo' tradition of unreliable female witnesses gets a folk-horror update here, trading urban paranoia for rural familial conspiracy.
The farmhouse setting deliberately echoes the isolated matriarchal spaces of Argento's 'Suspiria' and 'Inferno' — but here the witch coven is your own blood.
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