Miguel, a shy young man working at a video store is forced to rise to the challenge of protecting loved ones, and a possible love interest, from potentially the end of the world. Where did he acquire these skills? The movies.
Chile, 1992. Video store clerk Miguel may not know too much about the world, but he certainly knows movies. But maybe that makes him especially apt at dealing with things, when, in the hottest days known to the nation, life gets suddenly violent – for where else can one learn how to turn a video store into a makeshift fortress but from works like John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)? Let’s hope that his mystery customer Daniela is impressed enough by his deeds and daring to fall for this shy nerd…
1992 was really a strange year for Chile on account of a massive health crisis, which probably inspired journalist-turned-filmmaker Pablo Illanes to have the nation here face up in film to the threat of a biblical end. Typical Illanes, one might say, who’s one Chilean cinema’s more interesting figures, yet whose main expressive sphere is in television, as the maker of several mighty famous telenovelas – some of which sport a Gothic horror edge similar to that of Videoclub. A true treasure waiting for its discovery!