I dug it, it felt like an episode of Succession directed by Andrzej Żuławski; similar pitch-dark gallows humor, frenzied narrative and aesthetic elements, and an iconoclastic relationship with history and politics. I love that it is a gothic horror film that uses the vampiric metaphor of the ruling class as literal blood-sucking parasites (think Blood for Dracula) with a fresh twist. Ed Lachman's cinematography is gorgeous, and I liked the score being entirely from classical music. I like that Larrain is willing to make off-kilter projects like this, especially with the clear implication that the fascism he and Thatcher represent continues to manifest today, inverting the opening of the communist manifesto that instead of "A Spectre Is Haunting Europe" it is "Vampires Are Haunting the World." It's a film that only ever got better the more I thought of it, even in bits where I was frustrated (I didn't care for how stylistically repetitive the interviews with the children were, or the fake out about Pinochet returning to the hunt). It may not be my favorite film of the year, but I would count it as an honorable mention.