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*Plot and ending analyzed*
The Return of Sabina
I first saw El regreso de Sabina in 1980 in a rundown, dilapidated cinema in Venezuela. As a German citizen, I had to leave the country a few months after, due to the turmoil of that decade. But I enjoyed seeing many movies in Spanish in Venezuela.
Sabina is a woman who was killed in a horrible automobile accident. Her husband has suffered because of her death and he lives on the 'Isla de Margarita' He is attempting to recuperate from the event.
La isla de Margarita is an Island in the Caribbean Sea claimed by Venezuela, and the population is half a million people.
He meets a woman who physically resembles his dead wife. One day they start to become involved romantically on the beach, but the woman is drawn into the air by some supernatural force, and pulled into the ocean. Whether she was possessed before by the dead wife is unclear. The same actress plays the dead wife and the new woman who looks like her. She suddenly returns from the water as a seabird, and then starts attacking the man.
The man takes all that as a sign of the supernatural, especially that his wife is reaching out to him with cryptic messages.
He tells people about the event, and that he believes his dead wife is communicating with him. No one accepts his far-out story. But then those same people are attacked and killed by the seabird.
The man is an architect and he has a secretary who is secretly in love with him. She also does not believe that the man's wife has returned. That is, until one night when she sees for herself that Sabina has come back from the world of the dead. She is in the beach house and the dead wife starts closing doors and blowing wind around. Then she appears, laughing maliciously. And she still wants to be with her husband, and no one will stand in her way. The secretary is thrown out of the beach house and impaled on a metal fence. A homeless man whose dog was also killed before, is witness to the event.
An interesting story, I did not think it was that bad. The budget is low, so what matters is the manner in which the story is presented.
I recently visited Venezuela again and as I was in the capital, I saw this in the archives of the Venezuelan university.
In Spanish with no subtitles.
*Plot and ending analyzed*
The Return of Sabina
I first saw El regreso de Sabina in 1980 in a rundown, dilapidated cinema in Venezuela. As a German citizen, I had to leave the country a few months after, due to the turmoil of that decade. But I enjoyed seeing many movies in Spanish in Venezuela.
Sabina is a woman who was killed in a horrible automobile accident. Her husband has suffered because of her death and he lives on the 'Isla de Margarita' He is attempting to recuperate from the event.
La isla de Margarita is an Island in the Caribbean Sea claimed by Venezuela, and the population is half a million people.
He meets a woman who physically resembles his dead wife. One day they start to become involved romantically on the beach, but the woman is drawn into the air by some supernatural force, and pulled into the ocean. Whether she was possessed before by the dead wife is unclear. The same actress plays the dead wife and the new woman who looks like her. She suddenly returns from the water as a seabird, and then starts attacking the man.
The man takes all that as a sign of the supernatural, especially that his wife is reaching out to him with cryptic messages.
He tells people about the event, and that he believes his dead wife is communicating with him. No one accepts his far-out story. But then those same people are attacked and killed by the seabird.
The man is an architect and he has a secretary who is secretly in love with him. She also does not believe that the man's wife has returned. That is, until one night when she sees for herself that Sabina has come back from the world of the dead. She is in the beach house and the dead wife starts closing doors and blowing wind around. Then she appears, laughing maliciously. And she still wants to be with her husband, and no one will stand in her way. The secretary is thrown out of the beach house and impaled on a metal fence. A homeless man whose dog was also killed before, is witness to the event.
An interesting story, I did not think it was that bad. The budget is low, so what matters is the manner in which the story is presented.
I recently visited Venezuela again and as I was in the capital, I saw this in the archives of the Venezuelan university.
In Spanish with no subtitles.
