Your roommates are keeping secrets and the walls are crawling. Literally.
A foreign girl arrives to her new apartment. Her three roommates welcome her rather distantly, for no reason at all, and she can smell that there is something going on...Literally. Everyday when she walks out of her room, she notices a strong smell of insecticide that nobody is willing to explain.
Direction
Vidal's suffocating framing turns corridors into insect tunnels.
Practical Effects
Giant ant effects that'll have you checking your shower drain.
Director
Álvaro Vidal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Formications' plays on formication—the sensation of insects crawling on skin—linking the film's body horror to real neurological conditions. The epilepsy keyword isn't incidental; the film weaponizes sensory overwhelm as narrative.
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