Pablo Larraín’s black-and-white horror spoof “El Conde” is founded on a ferocious sight gag: the former dictator Augusto Pinochet soaring into the night on a quest for human blood.
This Pinochet, played with imperious cruelty by Jaime Vadell, was once a rebel-eating French royalist who sailed to South America in search of fresh meat.
It’s a comic premise — what, is this part of the “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” extended universe?
Larraín’s version of the man did that, too, with just one tweak: He blends his victims into a smoothie.
And Larraín has resurrected him to drag him into the light.
Persons:
Pablo Larraín’s, El Conde ”, Augusto Pinochet, Pinochet, Jackie, ” “ Spencer ”, Jaime Vadell, Abraham Lincoln, Hunter ”, History’s Pinochet, Larraín, Tony Manero ”, Oscar, Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Diana, He’s
Locations:
South America, Santiago, Chile