Directors: Joan Frank Charansonnet & Rubén Vilchez
Release date: 2018
Contains spoilers
I was contacted by a blog reader, some time ago, to suggest I look at this Spanish film, and I am going to have to beg forgiveness but I can’t remember who it was that gave me the tip – but thank you.
The Anunnaki were Gods described in early Sumerian texts but they also have become a focus for some conspiracy theories, with them offering their name to creatures controlling the world from a shadow government and being alien colonisers (ala Erich von Däniken’s crackpot, ‘God was an Astronaut’, theories). This is what they are in this.
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| Nibiru |
So the opening of the film suggests they came from Nibiru (an invented planet tied into conspiracy and thought to be the cause of the apocalyptic catastrophe of 2003… wait... that didn’t happen, of course) and enslaved mankind as they used earth for resource. It suggests they merged human and Anunnaki DNA and eventually left, though some stayed. Apparently they stayed without their advanced technology (or ability to replicate it) as we never see them with sci-fi gubbins. They feed on human blood and suffering (so the later would indicate energy vampirism).
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| the Anunnaki anachronism |
The film then moves to the 13th Century and a group of Anunnaki, led by Uruk, are in a chapel about to sacrifice a human woman. A group of knights are on their way to attack the monsters. The Anunnaki are able to kill her, gather her blood and drink it. The knights break in and there is a fight. Two things to note. Firstly, Uruk is able to “force push” the humans – this is an innate ability and not derived from tech. Secondly, he is wearing a modern leather jacket over a leather Brando jacket – as all the other outfits seem to replicate the clothes of the period it seems like the costume designers wanted to treat obviously store bought modern clothing as his and it looks awfully anachronistic.
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| Claudia taken |
We then move to the modern day and we get a very confused plot around the sacrifice of the chosen one. They chose one victim, a model called Victoria, but soon swap her for a girl (who may or may not be her sister, that was unclear as I watched) called Claudia. All the clans have to agree but Uruk wants to sacrifice Claudia as she is a hybrid (her father was Uruk’s brother, who was executed for fraternising with a human). Claudia is sure people are following her but the police don’t believe her – until one detective does.
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| force push |
Honestly, it’s a big old mess in a narrative sense and one never gets the feeling that the Anunnaki are in control of anything and one questions why they are against a hybrid if they were splicing the two species' DNA back whenever. Claudia is said to be the first human (or new species) who can see the fourth dimension (again, whatever that means) and can force push people also, she eventually discovers. There is another hybrid, but he is a sickly, green skinned creature who is kept locked up.
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| Uruk |
The Anunnaki eyes can go red (and seems to be a telepathic link with each other, Claudia is confirmed as a hybrid when they cause her eyes to do the same), they can sprout fangs, appear to be extremely long lived and, as well as blood, like to eat meal worms and other creepy crawlies. They have horizontal slit eyes that they can cause to look like human round pupils. They, for supposed rulers of the world, all seem to congregate in one Spanish city and not rule very much.
Really, there isn’t much to go into with this, the film really is a bit of a mess. 2.5 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
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