Interesante debate sobre el GRIFO en el SFF Athens

The most popular Thematic Short came from the “Creatures” Group. Nevertheless, apart from some ecstatic screams, The Furred Man (“Unbelievable!”, “Godly!”) was not the one that made the Audience comment. Rather it was “El Grifo” (The Faucet)dir. Denis Rovira, Spain (a director participating with an earlier short of his in SFF-rated ATHENS DVD 2006-2009:

“Very Good Idea”, “Excellent”

“Realistic” (implying that it does not belong to the SFF-genre) . “Not of the SFF-genre”another agreed.

But some other hand wrote “I did not understand the motive of the faucet“, proving to be tuned to the horror that domestic appliances (should) cause (horror sometimes has no ‘why’, only ‘what’).

Lastly, another comment went “Copying of the 127 Hours scenario” (Danny Boyle) -and with this one we will totally disagree: there can be no relation between the transformation of the friendly and congenial home environment into a nightmarish trap,just because the faucet felt like it, on the one hand, with the hardship of a mountain-climber on a hostile rock, in the other. The framework “Entrapment and the price for survival” (that characterizes both movies) is a common creative base for hundreds and thousands of works of art. The power of Denis Rovira’s film does not lie in the originality of the scenario but in the way the story of homely terror is filmed.