26 October 2009 3:58 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

There's dark, there's bleak and then there's Javier Gutierrez' Before The Fall (Tres Dias), which is so utterly nihilistic, it makes the ending of Frank Darabont's The Mist look like Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs! This amazing film was chosen to close L.A. Screamfest.

An enormous meteor, 10 times bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, is going to hit Earth in three days. In the Spanish town of Laguna, near-do-well Ale (an impressive Victor Clavijo) plans to spend his final days drinking and listening to music. His plans are interrupted when his Mother requests his help--Thomas, Ale's successful brother, has four children home alone in a remote hilltop and she wants to look after them before the End comes.

Once there, they find the children unaware of the impending doom and the Mother decides not to tell them. Because Ale's brother captured a notorious child killer years earlier, »

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