A magician's final trick needs blood, and the bombs already dropped.
After a nuclear attack, a magician takes shelter in a forest with his assistant to complete his biggest magic trick to date, The Creation, a trick that requires that you do some of the most inhumane things known to man.
Practical Effects
Gore effects that punch above the budget.
Direction
Valladares commits to the bit, unflinchingly.
Director
Patricio Valladares
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in the Chilean mountains with a crew of roughly ten people; the snow is real and so is the suffering.
Part of a wave of 2000s Latin American genre films that used horror to process political trauma—this one just added magicians.
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