‘Spencer’ director Pablo Larrain’s new film, which reimagines Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (Jaime Vadell) as a literal vampire, might be the most perverse project Netflix has ever signed off on.

A deserving winner of the Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival

A wickedly funny, blood-soaked portrait of a decaying tyrant.

Power and money will scoop out your soul, and fascism is very hard to kill. The real Pinochet died in 2006, but those particular truths, unfortunately, live on.

Film critic Peter Travers reviews "El Conde," starring Alfredo Castro, Catalina Guerra and Paula Luchsinger.

Director Pablo Larraín’s latest film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, creating an alternate universe in which the Chilean tyrant is still alive as a 250-year-old bloodsucker.

★★★☆☆ Chilean director Pablo Larraín has made the treatment of the great, the famous and the powerful his topic of preference, eschewing the lower end of the social scale that first made him famous with films such as Tony Manero and Post Mortem. Nothing has quite gone as far as El Conde, however.

Pablo Larrain’s high-concept Netflix drama featuring Augusto Pinochet as an ageing vampire lacks bite

In El conde, Pablo Larraín’s darkly comic horror-satire reveals that turning a real-life monster into the protagonist of his own monster movie is an effective way to process historical tragedy.

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.” He is instead a 250-year-old vampire living in semi-exile and wishing for death in this audacious allegory about history’s tendency to repeat itself, shot in sublime, otherworldly black and white, writes Lindsey Bahr in

The documentary about the legendary 1990s fashion models has a celebratory air, but there’s still some juicy haute couture dirt.

Movie review, 'El Conde': The daring film reimagines the brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as an undead creature of the night.