History Film / Veronica

* MistakenForCrazy: Both Veronica and Sister Death are taken for insane... but maybe they really are.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The third act reveals that Veronica's actions don't match what she sees. It can be interpreted both as a result of her being possessed or her having a psychotic break.

* BigSisterInstinct: Veronica takes case of the house and her siblings in the absence of her mother and her priority is to protect them from the entity. This includes trying to [[spoiler:commit suicide when she realizes she's been possessed and used to hurt her siblings herself.]]
* BlindSeer: Subverted by "Sister Death", who is blind but can "see" the presence following Veronica. However, she claims she could always see such beings and ''made herself blind'' in an unsuccessful attempt to make herself unable.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: The entity is invisible to everyone except Veronica and Sister Death.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: The police arrive when [[spoiler:Veronica is being [[SymbolicRape symbolically violated]] by the entity and can do nothing but watch and take her to a hospital after she collapses. She then dies at the hospital.]]
* CreepyChild:
** Veronica's siblings [[spoiler:start devouring her]] during a NightmareSequence.
** Antoñito slips into this when he talks of meeting his deceased father.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: There is a constant implication that Veronica was abused by her late father and her visions could be explained by a psychosis being derived from the abuse's effects combined with her adolescence and stress from having to take care of the house and children. However, this alternate explanation is thrown out when the police [[spoiler:witnesses Veronica unnaturally and her photo catching fire.]]

** The name Veronica was likely lifted from another UrbanLegend that was popular in 90s Spain, a version of the [[Film/UrbanLegendsBloodyMary Bloody Mary]] story where the name of th entity was Veronica and she could be summoned by saying it three times.

** The name Veronica was likely lifted from another UrbanLegend that was popular in 90s Spain, a version of the [[UrbanLegendsBloodyMary Bloody Mary]] story where the name of th entity was Veronica and she could be summoned by saying it three times.

* MythologyGag: One retelling of the "Vallecas Case" claims that Estefanía (Veronica) was trying to contact a boyfriend who had died in a biking accident, but this is not true. In the movie, the third girl (Diana) is said to have a boyfriend who died in such accident.

The titular character, Veronica, is a 15-year-old working class girl who plays with an OuijaBoard at school during a [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot total eclipse]] in [[TheNineties 1991]]. While her first intention is to contact her [[DeadLittleSister recently deceased father]], an unknown evil hears her instead and starts manifesting in her home, where it endangers her and her little siblings.

* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: Veronica realizes that it's her who has been hurting her siblings. Because of being possessed by the entity... OrIsIt?]]

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** The incident(s) that brought police to the home happened months after [[spoiler:Estefanía's death]], rather than on the same night. The police didn't meet or interact with her.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Veronica's friend reveals that Veronica said she would die that date when she was first possessed. [[spoiler:And she was right.]]

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* SpontaneousCombustion: The entity burns the [[ProtectiveCharm Protective Charms]] that Veronica places on her sisters bedroom, and leaves burning marks on several objects without setting them on fire.

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* NightmareSequence: Veronica has two nightmares. In one, she sees [[spoiler:her ([[FullFrontalAssault naked]]) father calling to her and morphing into the entity. In the other, [[spoiler:her siblings eat her flesh while her mother tells her to "grow up" before her hand morphs into the entity's and reaches for her crotch]].

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** The incident(s) that brought police to the home happened months after [[spoiler:Estefanía's death]], rather than on the same night. The police didn't meet or interact with her.

** Antoñito slips into this when he talks of meeting his deceased father.
* TheFaceless: After dropping its first guise as [[spoiler: Verónica's father]], the entity takes the shape of a black humanoid with no features. Its skin looks like it was burnt to a crisp.

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Antoñito claims to have been visited by his (dead) father and that he said he will take him to "where he is now".

** Veronica tells Antoñito to cover his ears and call her if he sees the entity. She finds him in a closet, repeating "Vero" over and over.

** Estefanía Gutiérrez (basis of Verónica) played with the Ouija one year before [[spoiler:her death]], in 1990.
** The recent death preceding events was Estefanía's grandfather[[note]]Who according to later legend "started it all" by cursing Estefanía in his deathbed; needless to say that the family never said this[[/note]], not her father. Both mother and father lived with the children at the time. They had six children instead of four and they were closer to Estefanía in age.
** The incident(s) that brought police to the home happened months after [[spoiler:Estefanía's death]], rather than on the same night. The police didn't meet or interact with her.

''Veronica'' (original title: ''Verónica'') is a 2017 Spanish horror film directed by Paco Plaza (one of the two creators of the ''{{Film/REC}}'') distributed by {{Creator/Netflix}}. The plot is [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory very loosely]] based on the [[UrbanLegend backstory]] of the "Vallecas Case", an alleged 1992 {{poltergeist}} in Madrid.

!''Veronica'' contains examples of:

* BasedOnATrueStory: Veronica is based on a famous Spanish case where a woman named Estefanía died under mysterious circumstances after playing with a Ouija board. It's one of the few times that an officer has sworn to the existence of paranormal activity surrounding a case. Unlike most examples, this is only revealed at the end of the movie, and it even shows photos of the investigation.
* BigSisterInstinct: At all times, Veronica's priority is to find a way to protect her siblings from the demon. [[spoiler:Upon realizing that she has already been possessed and has been hurting her siblings, Veronica attempts to protect them by killing herself, but the demons stops her.]]
* DemonicPossession: The demon that has been summoned wants something with Veronica, [[spoiler:and it's later revealed he had already possessed her all along and has been making her hurt her siblings unconsciously]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:After a confrontation with the demon, Veronica dies, though her siblings are safe, but still very much shaken by it, and the detective seems to be traumatized by what he saw]].
* EyeScream: "Sister Death" is blind because she was trying to rid herself of her ability to see the spirits. Unfortunately, she discovered that the two kinds of sight had nothing to do with each other...''after'' she'd done it.
* TheFaceless: The demon that appears to Veronica is a humanoid black mass that has no features to it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Every time something happened to her siblings, Veronica got blamed somehow, which ends up being the truth: she had been already possessed and has been the one behind the events that harm her family]].
* {{Irony}}: In a particularly cruel example, "Sister Death's" attempt to rid herself of her second sight by blinding herself made that her ''only'' kind of sight.
* NightmareSequence: Twice does Veronica have terrifying nightmares, in one, she is terrorized by her father turned into a demon, while in the second one, her siblings eat her flesh and try to kill her.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Verónica wakes to find her period has started, appropriately after a dream of her mother telling her repeatedly "It's time to wake up".
* NunsAreSpooky: "Sister Death", a blind nun that seems to be able to see regardless and later, is revealed to be able to communicate with spirits.
* OuijaBoard: Veronica and her friends used it to try to communicate with her father, but it ended up calling for something else entirely. Especially because [[spoiler: they neglected to say "goodbye".]]
* ParentalNeglect: Veronica accuses her mother of this. To keep supporting her family, she works so much she only comes back by the time her kids are asleep and leaves before they wake up, essentially never seeing them and forcing Veronica to step up to be their parent rather than their sister.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:It turns out that the person hurting her family was Veronica herself; she has already been possessed by the demon and was the cause of what happened in her house]].

''Veronica'', in it's original Spanish, Verónica, is a spanish horror film directed by Paco Plaza.

The movie follows the 15 year old Veronica in 1991, who, during a solar eclipse, plays Ouija with her friends in an attempt to communicate with her recently deceased father, and accidentally seems to have summoned an evil entity to be close to her, and even worse, her little siblings.

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* NoPeriodsPeriods: Verónica wakes to find her period has started, appropriately after a dream of her mother telling her repeatedly "It's time to wake up".

* OuijaBoard: Veronica and her friends used it to try to communicate with her father, but it ended up calling for something else entirely.

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:It turns out that the person hurting her family was Veronica herself, she has already been possessed by the demon and was the cause to what happened in her house]].

* BasedOnATrueStory: Veronica is based on a famous Spanish case where a woman named Estefanía died under mysterious circumstances after playing with a Ouija board. It's one of the few times that an officer has swore to the existence of paranormal activity surrounding a case. Unlike most examples, this is only revealed at the end of the movie, and it even shows photos of the investigation.
* BigSisterInstinct: At all times, Veronica priority is to find a way to protect her siblings from the demon. [[spoiler:Upon realizing that she has already been possessed and has been hurting her siblings, Veronica attempts to protect her by killing herself, but the demons stops her.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Every time something happened to her siblings, Veronica got blamed somehow, which ends up being the truth: she had already possessed and has been the one behind the events that harm her family]].
* NightmareSequence: Twice does Veronica has terrifying nightmares, in one, she is terrorized by her father turned into a demon, while in the second one, her siblings eat her flesh and try to kill her.

* ParentalNeglect: Veronica accuses her mother of this. To keep supporting her family, she works so much she only comes back by the time that her kids are asleep and leaves before they wake up, essentially never seeing them and forcing Veronica to step up to be their parent rather than their sister.