History tells us that Augusto Pinochet wasn’t a 250-year-old vampire who feasted on the blood of innocents, but El Conde disagrees. Pablo Larraín’s mesmerizing new film is a strange addition to the ...

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 ...

With his Netflix horror comedy “El Conde” (“The Count”), director Pablo Larraín uses a movie monster to satirize a real one. Horror movies, from “Night of the Living Dead” to “Get Out,” have long ...

The streets of Santiago were slick from fire-hose spray, and the acrid scent of tear gas lingered in the crisp air. It was the autumn of 1985, and the tempo of protest against Chile's military ...

The Chilean director imagines the Chilean dictator as a 250-year-old vampire committing slow, self-pitying suicide in a defiantly weird, gruesome but gorgeous-looking satirical horror. But not before ...

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 ...

Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast has named two lawyers who defended dictator Augusto Pinochet to his new cabinet.

Everyone knows how Nixon and Kissinger paved Pinochet’s path to power. The story of Harry Barnes, who played a crucial role in the Chilean dictator’s exit, is much less well known. Ad Policy A plaque ...