Netflix's new horror film Veronica dubbed 'scariest ever' is based on a real story - trailer and why it's freaking people out

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Netflix has just dropped a ton of new content, but it was a release earlier this week that has everyone talking.

Veronica, the Spanish horror movie, hit the streaming service on February 26 and viewers were immediately hooked.

Critics and Netflix fans alike are raving about it, heralding Paco Plaza, it's director, as a genius for creating what is being dubbed 'the scariest horror movie ever'.

Fright fans will remember Paco, of course, as the director of REC in 2007.

While Veronica is slightly different to REC, it is no less impressive.

Telling the story of a young girl, who has to raise her younger siblings as her mother is absent, it takes familiar horror tropes and adds a dose of reality.

 

Young Veronica and her friends take a break from looking after the siblings and mess about with the Ouija board during a solar eclipse - worse time, who knew?

Trying to summon the spirit of a dead friend, they accidentally disturb the spirit of her dead father - and then something or rather someone else.

The movie relies on things lurking in the shadows, others skittering about, objects moving and a blind nun.

Think The Exorcism of Emily Rose. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year to rave reviews, but has only just come to Netflix.

Rotten Tomatoes has it at 100% - an usual feat, especially for a horror movie.

The real hook though is the fact you don't know what is real, and what is not. Playing with reality in such a way unsettles you enough to make you question everything.

Mainly, why would you play with a Ouija board? It NEVER ends well.

Is Veronica based on a true story? Yes!

Possession ain't pretty (Image: Netflix/Sony Pictures)

What makes this even better is the film is supposedly based on a true story taken from Madrid's police files in the early 1990s.

The film’s credits roll over a terrified call to the police. The titles letting us know that what we seen is based on a real-life story.

The events all took place in 1992 when a young girl in Vallecas, south Madrid, was briefly hospitalised and died after dabbling with a ouija board.

The story begins with three friends playing with a Ouija board and ends three days later with Jose Pedro Negri, a police detective who entered a house to find it full of strange smells and noises.

It is said to be the only time the word ‘unexplained’ marks a police file.

The film fills in what happened in that three day span. With little to go on Paco’s movie plays fast and loose with facts.