In Netflix, A horror film gains popularity for a coincidence in the plot. The film, entitled The inhabitantincludes a scene in which the death of a pope is told Leo XIVname adopted by the current leader of the Catholic Church, who was appointed on May 8.
Robert Francis Prevost Martínez chose the name of Pope Leo XIV and is the first American and Peruvian to occupy that position.
The inhabitant premiered in 2017, Eight years before this historical moment in which there is a character with that name in the Vatican.
The story describes three sisters who enter a senator’s house with the intention of stealing money obtained through bribes. Once inside, they begin to listen to strange shouts from the basement. Tied to a bed, they find the paraplegic daughter of the senator, with signs of having been tortured and acts strangely.
“The inhabitant”
For 90 minutes, this Mexican film tells a story of terror directed and written by Guillermo Amoedo42, of Uruguayan origin and based in Chile. The film received two nominations, at the International Festival of Cinema in Catalonia as best film and in the Ariel Awards, nominated with better special effects.
The beginning of the scenes presents voices that pray the Our Father in a whisper. Just in the first minutes a sequence appears with images and photographs of the senator’s family.
Immediately, a scene is shown in the Plaza de San Pedro, where it is reported on the death of Pope Leo XIV. According to the first reports of the Vatican, he would have died due to septicemia (severe infection) and a cardiopulmonary collapse, after a week of illness. The date of the future conclave would be determined.
Amoedo in an interview he shared on his social networks says it is a strange issue and resurfaced with the arrival of the new Pope, but the name arose in a count of the names of potatoes that have existed. “There is no mathematical formula with which I take out the list of potatoes, all historical potatoes and there is also the list of antipas are figures that were not recognized,” he explains.
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The director also says that he is not Catholic, but tried to address the film and the entire universe being as faithful as possible to the Catholic worldview. Gabriele Amorth’s textual phrases are used, the exorcist priest who inspired The exorcist. He made 70 thousand ceremonies throughout his 91 years and the Vatican was in charge of exorcisms.
It also invites you to see the film again, which recognizes prophecies and other issues related to potatoes.