It's been called the scariest film on Netflix by critics and by viewers alive.

It's a Spanish film that's written and directed by Paco Plaza, who found fame a few years

before this one came out with the wreck found footage franchise.

Released in 2017, Veronica takes place in 1991 and follows the story of a teenage girl who,

along with two friends, decides to conduct a seance with a talking board to summon her dead

father in their school basement during a solar eclipse.

But despite Veronica's best intentions and her love for her father, things go badly awry

when an evil spirit is conjured up instead, and she becomes possessed by an otherworldly evil.

The film opens with us knowing none of these things, though.

We hear a telephone call that's been placed to emergency services in Madrid and then follow

along with officers as they enter a ransack apartment, only to see them freeze with shock

when they see something they are unable to comprehend.

Well, after the camera cuts away, we're told the film we're about to watch is a true story,

based on the police records of the real life case. As we can probably all agree,

seen based on a true story pop up on the screen at the

beginning of a horror film fills us with anticipation. Even if the filmmakers take some creative

liberties to make things a little scarier, there's just something chilling about knowing

that what we're about to see is based on real events,

which is why we have this season of the podcast.

But even though we've often bragged that the true stories we've talked about this season

are scarier than the films they're based on, the reality of that statement is really up to you. This time, though,

the actual story behind Veronica manages to stand out. It's a very real story of an actual

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