First Trailer for Pablo Larraín's Horror Satire El Conde

Getting its premiere at this year's Venice Film Festival is Pablo Larraín's El Conde, a horror satire that stars Jaime Vadell as Augusto Pinochet, a 250-year-old vampire ready to die.

The official synopsis reads:

El Conde is a dark comedy/horror that imagines a parallel universe inspired by the recent history of Chile. The film portrays Augusto Pinochet, a symbol of world fascism, as a vampire who lives hidden in a ruined mansion in the cold southern tip of the continent. Feeding his appetite for evil to sustain his existence. After two hundred and fifty years of life, Pinochet has decided to stop drinking blood and abandon the privilege of eternal life. He can no longer bear that the world remembers him as a thief. Despite the disappointing and opportunistic nature of his family, he finds new inspiration to continue living a life of vital and counterrevolutionary passion through an unexpected relationship.

The film's trailer gives a taste of what to expect from Larraín's latest and features actors Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro and Paula Luchsinger.

The movie was filmed entirely in Chile during the middle of the austral winter. Larraín explains, "I have been imagining Pinochet as a vampire for years, as a being that never stops circulating through history, through our imagination and our nightmares. Vampires don't die or disappear, nor do the crimes and thefts of a dictator who never knew justice ... The brutal impunity that Pinochet represents had to be faced directly, showing him for the first time face to face. To do so, we have used the language of satire and political farce".

El Conde will be in select theaters in September and then available to stream on Netflix from September 15.