Horror is a genre that simulates situations to make the viewer feel scared in a safe way, likewise it evolves according to what hallows society. In an increasingly cynical world, creators of horror fiction distance themselves from fantasy as they approach the human’s depth closer. Humanity is no longer scared by deformed creatures or the living dead, instead, what’s terrifying now is observing the mundane interior of the human mind.

That’s why Freud defines the sinister as the disturbing blend of the familiar and the uncanny. We don’t need to leave home (or even our own heads) to face the purest horrors. “The Worm” portraits how some of the most terrifying things can’t be encoded as they are concealed inside familiarity. Such profound forms of terror that we can’t stare at with our naked eyes whilst being fundamental to do so in order to know our species profoundly. The humanity behind the trauma addressed in this film reveals the enormous layers of complexity that the human mind shapes as a response to events that, in spite of seeming atypical, are more commonplace than we are aware of