El Conde is a Chilean horror and comedy movie that follows a 250-year-old vampire, Augusto Pinochet, who decides to die but does not want to be remembered as a thief. Things may not go as he plans due ...

Everyone knows that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died in December 2006 at the age of 91, more than 30 years after he seized power from Salvador Allende in a coup d’état that was followed by ...

Netflix releases trailer for El Conde, a satirical film based on the life of a Chilean dictator who is also a vampire. The movie is shot in black-and-white, focusing on dialogue and visual language, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Warning: This article contains spoilers for the movie El Conde, which is in theaters now and coming to Netflix on September 15. Former conservative British Prime Minister ...

Part gothic horror fable and part political parable, director Pablo Larraín’s new “El Conde” is a story told with imagination, anger and mournfulness. Playfully, the film suggests that Augusto ...

Edward Lachman sheds light on his approach to director Pablo Larraín’s anti-biopic, which depicts former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a bloodsucking monster. By Matthew Jacobs [email protected] ...

The Chilean director’s Netflix feature is political farce as darkly funny vampire horror, offering an inventive take on why despots keep sinking their fangs into the world. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

On September 11, 1973, Chilean military commander Agosto Pinochet orchestrated a coup and seized power over President Salvador Allende. Nearly 50 years later, the undead vampire Pinochet has absconded ...

What is the correct distance from which to film a dictator? You could give him a close-up, revealing his psychic wounds, in a biopic or drama. You could turn on a spotlight, make him sing and dance ...

While it would be incorrect to say that writer-director Pablo Larraín’s recent films about historical figures, the fascinating duo of nightmarish portraits Spencer and Jackie, were at all ...